Russian Commanders Convicted for Dam Attack

Officers ordered the seizure of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station (HPP) and attacks on the North Crimean Canal.

Entrance to the offices of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor in Kiev, Ukraine. © Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Why Ukraine Opposes a Hybrid Court

Debate continues over the best way to prosecute Russia for the crime of aggression.

Ukraine Justice Briefing

Tuesday, 30 May ‘23

This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.

On May 22, the Comrat Court of Appeals validated the election of Evghenia Guțul as governor of Moldova’s autonomous region of Gagauzia, after law enforcement agencies detected violations of electoral law, including voter bribery, during the run-off of May 14. © Piotr Garciu

Court Upholds Election of Gagauzia’s Pro-Russian Governor

Even as Chișinău confirms its European path, Evghenia Guțul pledges closer ties with Moscow.

Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko visits an apartment damaged by the debris of a Russian intercepted drone, in a residential building on May 8, 2023 in Kyiv, Ukraine. © Roman Pilipey/Getty Images

The Route to Russian Reparations

Challenges lie ahead in recovering funds from frozen assets.

The inside of the hospital in Trostyanets, a town of nearly 20,000 people in northeastern Ukraine. The medical facility came under Russian shelling on March 18, 2022. © Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation

Courtside

Russian Tankers Guilty of Shelling Hospital

Some 70 medical staff and patients, including women in labour, were forced to shelter in building’s basement.

Ukraine Justice Briefing

Tuesday, 23 May ‘23

This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.

A girl reads a book in a reading room of Chuy regional library, in the town of Kant. Over 80 per cent of the 1,060 libraries in Kyrgyzstan are located in rural areas and in most villages they are the only cultural facility. © IWPR Central Asia

A World in 30 Metres: Kyrgyzstan’s Rural Libraries

Precious resources are often villages’ only cultural centres, but they remain underfunded and at risk.

(left) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan casts his vote in Turkey's general elections at a polling station in the Uskudar district on May 14, 2023 in Istanbul. (right) Republican People's Party (CHP) leader and presidential candidate of the main opposition alliance Kemal Kilicdaroglu arrives to cast his vote at a polling station during Turkey's General Election on May 14, 2023 in Ankara. © Umit Bektas-Pool/Getty Images and Burak Kara/Getty Images

Turkey Votes: Normalisation With Armenia Will Continue

The presidential contest looms large over the South Caucasus region and the outcome will have a profound impact in Yerevan and Baku.

Global Voices: Europe/Eurasia

THIS WEEK ON CABAR.ASIA

Highlights from IWPR’s Central Asia network of analysis and investigations

In Kyrgyzstan, authorities are moving to shut down the independent nonprofit Kloop Media Foundation in the latest action against independent journalism, while in Kazakstan an increasing number of people entrust, and lose, their money in schemes publicised as abiding by religious principles.

Elsewhere, an analysis digs into the different challenges that Afghan and Russian refugees face in Tajikistan.