Next presidential elections are held in Ukraine on May 25th. A team from the OSCE, with about 900 short-term observers of the 57 states of Europe, North America and Central Asia, will make an election observation mission on field.

At the so-called referendum of March 16 almost 97% of living, dead and unborn people in Crimea, of any ethnicity and nationality, voted for the unification of Crimea with Russia. The supervisors and observers present at referendum wore green and were armed.

The region of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus have experienced some of the more massive and effective nonviolent revolutions in recent years. Grygorii Sorochan, one of the coordinators of OPORA, introduces us to the situation in Ukraine.