Magnitsky-style sanctions could be a step towards freeing the circa 70 Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, said Ukrainian human rights activists during a visit to London in early November 2018, where they passed a list of those...
In 1980, Andrei Sakharov was exiled in the closed city of Gorky, punished for having alerted the world to the danger that the USSR represented. Under house arrest and constantly monitored by the KGB, he was cut off from the world by the...
Sentsov was arrested by the Russian FSB on 11 May 2014, shortly after the Russian occupation of Crimea. Together with three other Ukrainians, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Henadiy Afanasiev, and Oleksiy Chirniy he was illegally transferred to...
The EU considers Russia’s case against the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov a violation of international law and elementary standards of justice and expects his release along will all illegally detained Ukrainian citizens in Russia...
Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian filmmaker accused of terrorism by Russia, has announced that he is stopping the hunger strike that he had started on 14 May 2018, demanding to free all the Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia. He stated...
On 14 September, a collective of French filmmakers and intellectuals launched an initiative to support Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is on day 124 of hunger strike in a Russian prison colony, demanding the release of some 70...
Everyone has heard of Jan Palach, the young Czech student who set himself on fire on January 19, 1969 in Prague in protest against the repression of the Prague Spring and the military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops...
One of Vladimir Putin’s greatest advantages has been the willingness of others to accept his definition of what is occurring rather than describe things honestly be it the invasions of Georgia and Ukraine, the Anschluss of Crimea, or the...
Ukraine’s Ombudswoman Liudmyla Denisova had just shared the photos of Oleg Sentsov, who is today on the 88th day of his hunger strike that she received from her Russian counterpart Tatyana Moskalkova. “According to the...
Oleg Sentsov, the Ukrainian filmmaker Russia sentenced to 20 years for unproven “terrorism” on hunger strike since 14 May 2018, has sent a letter depicting his state to his cousin Nataliya Kaplan. Nataliya got it from...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
