Ukraine came under fire from Amnesty International on Thursday after a Kiev court banned the national Communist Party, the latest move to break from the country’s Soviet past more than two decades after independence.
The District Administrative Court of Kiev ruled on Wednesday in favour of the Ukrainian justice ministry’s lawsuit demanding a ban on the Communist Party, after deliberating on the case for some 18 months. The ban prohibits any further action by the party, including running in local or national elections.
It is one step closer to extinction for the Communist party of Ukraine following its failure to win any …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
