MOSCOW. June 30 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry has released an update of the White Book on abuse of human rights and the supremacy of law in Ukraine in the period from April through mid-June 2014, says a report posted on the ministry website.
"The information contained in the White Book proves systematic and in some cases [for instance, the so-called antiterrorist operation of the Kyiv authorities against civilians in the southeast, the cynical bloody provocation staged at the House of Unions in Odesa and the blocking of unwelcome media outlets at any cost] practically purposeful flagrant violations of fundamental international principles and norms in the field of human rights and the supremacy of law in Ukraine," said ministry ombudsman for human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov.
The White Book update and its first edition were based on the results of monitoring of Ukrainian, Russian and certain Western media outlets, commentaries and statements of members of the Kyiv authorities and their supporters, testimonies of eyewitnesses, including those posted online, and materials collected by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, the Group for Information on Crimes against Humanity and the ad hoc monitoring mission, he said.
The White Book is bound to draw international attention to the facts of massive violations of human rights in Ukraine, Dolgov said.
He said the document would be sent to international human rights structures and institutes and relevant NGOs "so that they finally demonstrate an appropriate unbiased approach to the crimes committed in Ukraine, which must be investigated in an impartial and transparent fashion with the international participation with the purpose of punishment of the culprits."