politische Gefangene | Ukraine Crisis Media Center

August 09, 2017

Ukrainian Volodymyr Balukh convicted in occupied Crimea is a prisoner of conscience – human rights defenders

Topic: "Every investigator of socially important information should be protected at the law level"

Matthew Schaaf, director of the Freedom House NGO in Ukraine
Iryna Kushnir, co-founder of the Ukrainian Human Rights Institute
Oksana Nesterenko, Executive Director of the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational Center for Combating Corruption in Ukraine
Lyudmyla Tyagnyryadno, Program Director of the Blueprint for Free Speech NGO in Ukraine
Olexander Kalitenko, Legal Advisor at Transparency International Ukraine

Topic: «Ukraine is 28. Where are we now? Where are we going?"

Iryna Bekeshkina, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation
Bogdan Bondarenko, expert of the Center for Political and Legal Reforms
Glib Vyshlinsky, Executive Director of the Center for Economic Strategy
Olexey Garan, Scientific Director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation,
Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Yuri Makarov, journalist, publicist
Volodymyr Ogryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009), Head of the NGO
Center for the Study of Russia
Svitlana Khutka, expert at the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, Ph.D.