The Kyiv Court of Appeals has postponed hearings on the appeal filed by the Ukrainian prosecutor's office for the review of a Kyiv Pechersky District Court verdict on a preventive measure for former Georgian president, now leader of the "Movement of New Forces" Party in Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili, according to the Ukrainian news outlet InfoResist.
More than 70 Crimean Tatars faced court hearings in Russia-controlled Crimea on December 18 over single-person demonstrations they staged in October to protest pressure imposed on practicing Muslims by the Moscow-installed authorities, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The Russian delegation to the United Nations has granted a letter from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, requesting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine, the status of an official document of the UN Security Council, former Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the UN Yuriy Sergeyev (2007-2015) said while testifying as witness in a Kyiv’s Obolonsky Court hearing of the “Yanukovych treason case.”