Third Round – Preliminary Statement On 26th December 2004, the British Helsinki Human Rights Group observed the repeat run-off of the Ukrainian presidential election, increasingly…
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This preliminary report of the BHHRG's observers on the controversial second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections challenges the widely-disseminated media image of government-sponsored fraud at the expense of an untainted opposition on the basis of first-hand reporting.
Date: 24 November 2004 Western television viewers and newspaper readers are being fed on a diet of propaganda about the current crisis in Ukraine. The…
An enormous head of steam has built up behind the view that President Putin is somehow the main culprit in the grisly events in North…
Arson and vandalism after 17th March, 2004 Introduction and a precedent for violence On 17th March, 2004, rioting spread across the UN-administered province of Kosovo.…
In the spring of 1998 the international media reported alarming stories about the treatment of gypsies in two Czech towns, Usti nad Labem and Plzen.…
Date: 13 May 2003 Champagne all round on the night of 11th May, 2003, as Lithuanians voted to endorse membership of the EU. Officially, 91% had…
Date: 03 June 2003 On Wednesday, 28th May 2003, Jana Bobošikova – one of the leading television journalists in the Czech Republic, whose weekly political discussion…
Introduction This Group’s election observers are often asked by ordinary voters in the post-Communist societies where much of the BHHRG’s activities take place whether there…
Media Coverage Parties which are outside the centre-left/centre-right consensus, even though not necessarily particularly hard left or right find it difficult to get access to…