Kyiv, 24 June 2015 – The European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE) officially announced the launch of their joint project "Strengthening the implementation of European human rights standards in Ukraine" at the meeting with representatives of the government, civil society, and international organizations.

Summarizing the interim results of monitoring transparency and freedom of speech, the Crimean Human Rights Field Mission states that there are signs of systematic work on the monopolization of information space, including through administrative pressure on independent media, on the peninsula.