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...
“Not a single Ukrainian citizen has suffered here since 2014, there are absolutely no restrictions, and the attitude to them is just friendly”: that is how the Kremlin-installed head of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov is trying to lure tourists...
“I hope to see him, cast a glance at him and hold his hand,” Aliye says with tears in her eyes. Her cancer leaves her, perhaps, several weeks, if not days, of life. “I miss him very much… My only wish is to see my son just for a...
Summer of 2016, a psychiatric clinic in Simferopol. A regime object, guards are on duty at the entrance, and relatives can meet only briefly and according to the schedule. In the wards, together with patients, there are people who undergo...
A new institution to coordinate the issues of Ukrainian political hostages held in Russia and Russian-annexed Crimea, including the aid to them and their families and the efforts aimed at their liberation, is to be established within the...
Abduction in occupied Crimea On May 10, 2014, Oleg Sentsov, along with three other Ukrainian citizens (Kolchenko, Chyrniy, and Hennadii Afanasiev), was captured by the officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in the Crimean...
As the Eurovision song contest descended on Kyiv, a group of activists launched a campaign to alert the circa 60,000 foreign visitors of the Ukrainian capital of the Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin. Stickers posted all around the city...
For three weeks prior to the second sentence, Ruslan was on hunger strike protesting against the state terror Russia brought to Crimea. He is one of at least 42 Ukrainian citizens who are now held in custody by the Russian regime as...
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,...
Ruslan is now undergoing a farcical trial in Russia for the second time. As he explains, the hunger strike is his personal act of protest against the ruthless xenophobic repression of the Crimean Tatar people, of which his own unfair case...
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Is Poroshenko just like Yanukovych?
It's been three years since the election of Petro Poroshenko as President of Ukraine. Is he following in Yanukovych's footsteps? There are many reasons many arguments for and against. that statement. What do you think?
On July 10, NATO participated in one of the most significant events of past decade to take place in Ukraine: the full complement of the North Atlantic Council (ambassadors of all the countries and the secretary general), as well as a...
