Sentenced by a Russian-controlled court in Crimea, Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh is ready to write his last will and testament, said the Commissioner for Human Rights of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova. “Volodymyr Balukh has asked for a...
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...
On 26 April 2017, Russian military court sentenced the Crimean Tatar activist Ruslan Zeytullaev to 12-year imprisonment. He is one of at least 42 Ukrainian citizens who are now held political hostages of the Kremlin. For three weeks,...
The speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Volodymyr Groysman, urged all who are concerned about the fate of national deputy Nadiya Savchenko to persuade her to end her dry hunger strike, which she began while imprisoned in Russia....
On 15 February 2016, a chain hunger strike in support of Nadiya Savchenko launched in the Czech republic. Planned to take place until 29 February, the solidarity action was announced to take place during the Parliamentary Assembly of the...
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) has adopted an appeal to the Ukrainian pilot and deputy Nadia Savchenko calling on her to end her hunger strike. Savchenko has been on a hunger strike in a Russian prison for 80 days. The...
The Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has been on a hunger strike for almost 60 days in a Russian prison. She has stated that she will not stop this act of protest until she is freed. Doctors are sounding the alarm because irreversible...
The Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko has already caused embarrassment for Vladimir Putin through her long hunger strike and would do even more if she ended it. This is the view that Elena Vasilyeva, founder of the Cargo-200 from Ukraine to...
Nadiya Savchenko’s lawyer states that she is “slowly dying” in a Russian prison after a 50-day hunger strike. Ilya Novikov, who visited Savchenko in the hospital of Matrosskaya Tishina Prison told Radio Liberty that she still refuses...
Due to her hunger strike that began December 13, Ukrainian military pilot and parliamentarian Nadiya Savchenko, illegally detained by the Russian authorities in a Moscow jail, is in a ‘terrible physical condition’ –...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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