lawyers

News - 30 January 2026

Ukraine establishes working group to reform legal profession to align with EU standards

The Rule of Law roadmap, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on May 14, 2025, mandates the development and adoption of a bill to improve the legal regulation of attorney activities

News - 21 May 2025

Council of Europe adopts Convention on the Protection of the Lawyer Profession: will the document strengthen Ukraine’s advocacy?

The Council of Europe responds to the increasing threat and attacks against lawyers and the legal profession.

Articles - 22 July 2022

How independent lawyers are ‘silenced’ in Crimea

This article is about the charges brought against lawyers, the course of their trials, and the consequences these prosecutions will lead to

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Articles

24 February

“No other country in the world has had reporters working under such conditions for years”: Russia’s war crimes against media, illustrated by the regional branches of Suspilne

20 February

“Mum, I don’t want to go back there…”: blind political prisoner Sizikov was released from a penal colony on health grounds, but then the decision was overturned

16 February

ZMINA reader survey: Share your feedback

16 January

Prison guards at “Izolyatsia” replicated torture methods shown in the American film The Mauritanian: Daniil Bulhakov says after three years in “DPR” prisons

27 December

Government agencies have appointed officials responsible for the temporarily occupied territories: human rights advocate explains what this will change

Instructions

19 February

Kremlin Prisoners: How to Write a Letter to a Political Prisoner

Columns

The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

26 February

The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Mariia Sulialina

24 February

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives

Leila Seiitbek

11 February

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Hlonipha Mokoena

31 January

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

Munira Mustaffa

27 January

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

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