- Censorship threat. Ukraine’s parliament is to consider a bill that would grant prosecutors and the National Security and Defense Council powers to block websites they deem threatening to national security – without a court ruling.
- 100 days of hunger. A native of Crimea Volodymyr Balukh has been on hunger strike for 100 days protesting his incarceration by the Russian authorities of the peninsula.
- Pardon Sentsov. Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland has filed an official request to Russian President Vladimir Putin to pardon Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who has been on a hunger strike in a Russian prison for 43 days.
- Blame Yanukovych. Two-thirds of Ukrainians blame ex-President Viktor Yanukovych for the country’s problems, a new survey shows.
- Privatization news. The Ukrainian government is preparing a bill to lift restrictions on the privatization of state defense enterprises.
- Mock trial. The Russian-backed separatists that control Ukraine’s eastern city Luhansk held a weird public trial in absentia of President Petro Poroshenko, Secretary of Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Turchynov and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
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