Early morning September 13, unknown people in masks and FSB attire broke into the house where local merchant Renat Parlamov, a young father of four children, was living together with his wife and her parents. Without showing their ID and...
In its response to the verdict, the U.S. Department of State points to the legal nonsense that underlies the case as the clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian activists in Simferopol on 26 February 2014, which were imputed to...
The problem of the Russian occupation of Crimea and oppression of its indigenous Crimean Tatar people has been recently raised for the first time in the mediascape of Iran, a Middle Eastern regional power traditionally considered as an...
Since his arrest, Akhtem Chiygoz has spent more than 2,5 years or nearly 950 days behind bars. His mother died during the trial, in July 2017. On the demand of the international community, Russian authorities allowed the prisoner to see...
Russia’s FSB has confirmed that the Ukrainian teenager Pavlo Hryb, who went missing in Belarus on 24 August 2017, is being kept in the pre-trial detention center #5 in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar, the official...
On Ukraine’s Independence Day, 24 August, Pavlo traveled from Chernihiv in northern Ukraine to the neighboring Belarusian city of Gomel. He was going to meet a girl from Russia’s Krasnodar Krai he had got to know via a social network...
The 74-y.o. mother of the prisoner Natalya has sent a wrathful letter to Russian President Putin, where she expresses her indignation over the political repression that has befallen her family. Natalya Balukh emphasizes that the only...
I would like to appeal to my long-suffering people, who have sustained a lot of violence and forcible resettlements, who want to retain our faith, which the faithless cannot understand, who succeeded to return to their homeland from all...
The Russian prosecution saw both previous sentences as insufficient and appealed against them in the Rostov Military Court and then in Moscow. The aim was to jail the builder from Sevastopol, a Muslim believer and a father of three, who...
Last week, Trump moderately expanded sanctions on Russia in what many have deemed an ‘encouraging’ sign that it will continue to put pressure on the Putin regime for its illegal actions in Ukraine. Among the newly penalized is a...
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever known – local historian Yuriy Dmitriev. He has dedicated his life to the dead. He is accused either of producing child pornography or illegal...
