Tiny Kox News Today

On May 20, 2019, Zelensky began his five-year term as President of Ukraine. The next presidential election was set for March 31, 2024, but Russia's invasion pushed this issue into the background.

Greek politician Theodoros Rousopoulos has been elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

The Venice Commission, which depends on the Council of Europe, will publish in the coming weeks, "no later than March 2024", an opinion on the Amnesty Law

No clear postwar situation is likely to emerge in Ukraine. The country’s EU partners will have to help it reform during wartime.

Zelensky is following the law—and the public mood.

As the war drags on and another winter approaches, rumblings about elections next year and talk of a “stalemate” on the battlefield have exposed fault lines in a country whose unity has been a crucial force in an existential struggle against the Russian invasion. 

Ukraine’s international allies have stressed the importance of elections in Ukraine in 2024. But does the public support it, and is it legally possible or even practical in wartime?

Kavala, 66, faced alternating charges that have ranged from espionage and financing the 2013 protests to taking part in a failed 2016 coup against Erdogan.

The Council of Europe on Monday awarded its top rights prize to jailed Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has come under repeated attack from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The decision drew an angry response from Ankara, but was cheered on by groups that have long expressed worries about Turkey’s deteriorating human rights record under Erdogan. […]

The Council of Europe on Monday awarded its top rights prize to jailed Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has come under repeated attack from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.This prize is so important," his wife, Ayse Bugra Kavala, said, accepting the award from Tiny Kox, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.