If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to be held in Russia in 16 days, then when will it? Tata Gutmakher asks, adding that unfortunately it appears the West “doesn’t...
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip to Crimea. Unlike real Russian villages, these were clean and bright and designed to give the impression that the people there...
Ivan Tyrenko is a released hostage who is undergoing rehabilitation at Kyiv’s the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital. He says his condition is good. He jokes a lot and realizes, little by little, that he is finally free. Tyrenko was one of the...
On 30 June 2017, a powerboat bearing Russian identification marks was intercepted by Ukrainian military when approaching the shore in Kherson Oblast from the side of occupied Crimea. Two members of the Russian border service (a part of...
What was said at the meetings? Were any concrete decisions made? We’ve been fighting long and hard for the liberation of all our men. We continue demanding that our government officials and Minsk representatives work harder on...
At least 36 Ukrainians are jailed in Russia and occupied Crimea on politically motivated grounds, according to the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign. People all over the world are sending them postcards and letters as part of the holiday marathon...
The letter, signed by over 100 experts from 11 countries, says that the three detained were permanent residents of Crimea. Two of them, Dmytro Shtyblikov, and Oleksiy Bessarabov, were researching international and regional security...
Mocking an armless PoW “Who brainwashed you? You speak like a brainwashed zombie… Who needs you now, with no arms?” These are not the phrases a maimed prisoner of war is supposed to hear minutes before reuniting with his family...
When one summer morning Sophia came to work, she saw a lean man at her office door. For CrimeaSOS, an NGO dealing with internally displace persons fleeing from occupied Crimea to mainland Ukraine, this is a common experience – many...
Why is there so little information about Sentsov and Kolchenko? – …because they’re very brave and don’t want to complain about their situation. They’re waiting and hoping for a prisoner exchange. Not long ago, Russian...
Fake news and disinformation receive most of the attention of western security institutions when it comes to examining Russian meddling in democratic countries. What escapes the attention of many an analyst is that disinformation is only a...
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