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How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today
12 January is the Day of the Ukrainian political prisoner, established to honor people who were imprisoned on…
United against the Empire | Documentary digs into centuries-deep roots of Ukrainian-Lithuanian friendship
The documentary UA-LT For Your and Our Freedom by the director Larysa Artiugina reveals the aspects of the…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 44
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Belarusian dissidents in 1999-2000: sudden disappearances & unsolved murders
Yury Zakharenka was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus in 1995-1996, but was dismissed by Lukashenka in…
How important were the Soviet dissidents: the case of Ukraine
[editorial]The Ukrainian dissidents constituted a most visible opposition to the Soviet regime. But why were they not at…
Ukrainian dissident Oleksa Tykhyy. How a teacher from Soviet Donetsk became “Public Enemy #1”
In his article “Reflections on my native Donetsk” (Думки про рідний донецький край, 1972), Oleksa Tykhyy wrote the…
They broke the Gulag: How Ukrainians overcame the Soviet repressive machine
“They triumphed, though their struggle stretched for 74 years of existence of the communist totalitarian and its concentration…
How Ukraine’s Vasyl Stus used poems to fight the Soviet Regime
In 1972, Vasyl Stus was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda. As his wife Valentyna Popeliukh recalls the moment: “Until…
How Putin’s Russia is becoming Stalin’s USSR
When the Kursk submarine sank, Vladimir Putin said a prophetic phrase that probably could be applied to the…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 40
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Another death of a Russian opposition journalist: Alexander Shchetinin remembered by Kirillova
Ukrainian authorities have launched a murder investigation into the death of a prominent Russian journalist found shot to death at…
Soviet-era chronicle of human rights violations reanimated in Putin’s Russia
The legendary information bulletin, A Chronicle of Current Events, published by dissidents in the Soviet Union during 1968-1983,…
Putin’s Reign of Terror on Russia’s New Dissidents: “Cossacks” Attack Navalny Family as Police Watch
On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund…
The price for a clear conscience in Russia
Not being able to go home to your own country, to see your parents, to bury your loved…