Ukraine will submit new resolutions on the human rights situation in the occupied Crimea for consideration by the UN General Assembly, according to the Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the UN Vladimir Yelchenko.
The diplomat noted that resolutions of this kind have a peculiar evolution, as...
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has called on the UN Human Rights Council to press on Russia to open access for international organizations to Crimea.
"The constant presence of international organizations, including the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE must be allowed on the...
IN June 1772, Russian forces bombarded, stormed and captured Beirut, a fortress on the coast of Ottoman Syria. The Russians were backing their ally, a ruthless Arab despot. When they returned the next year, they occupied Beirut for almost six months. Then as now, they found Syrian politics a...
Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other religions. Murder rates in most of the Muslim world are very low compared to the United States.
As for political violence, people of Christian heritage in the twentieth century polished off tens...
On Tuesday evening, two Republican presidential candidate hopeful accidentally enraged Ukrainian Americans with a single word: "the." John Kasich and Donald Trump referred to Ukraine as "the Ukraine," a common but unfortunate mistake. Lindsey Graham made the same blunder at the third GOP debate. ...
On Ukraine Today’s Viewpoint, Volodymyr Solohub is joined by Imam Nuridin, Islamic Culture Centre in Kyiv, to discuss the violation of religious and human rights of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula which was annexed by Russia last year.
"Some activists among Crimean Tatars, among...
A round-up of visitors of one of Moscow restaurants where Muslim came for iftar after the evening prayer was made by Russian law-enforcement officers.
One of the social media published photographs and a video recording made...
Borinya, Ukraine — Abdurrahman swept a small pile of breadcrumbs into his hand. Then he picked up the blanket that serves as prayer rug, dinner table and playground, shook it out at the window, and laid it again in the dorm room. He straightened the corners, readying it for the evening prayers he...
