On your exchange day, we all watched cars with blacked-out windows and security jeeps leaving Lefortovo Detention Center 2 (SIZO-2) and film crews of governmental TV channels gathering at the entrance to Vnukovo… Tell us about the...
Russia continues to oppress Ukrainian citizens in the occupied Crimea not only for their civil stance, but also for their religion. Crimean Tatar Muslims and Christian Orthodox worshipers belonging to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU)...
The euphoria from the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia which took part on 7 September has somewhat worn off in Ukraine. The 35 Ukrainians who returned home – 24 sailors and 11 political prisoners – are undergoing...
On 7 September 2019, 35 Ukrainians returned home from Russian prisons. Among them were the 24 sailors whom Russia illegally captured after attacking them in the Black Sea in November 2018. The case has been widely covered in Ukrainian and...
For Ukraine, the Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap on 7 September was euphoric and touching. 35 men, of them 11 Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin and 24 sailors Russia captured after attacking Ukrainian ships in the Black sea in...
On 7 September 2019, a prisoner exchange took place between Russia and Ukraine. took place. 35 Ukrainian citizens held in Russia on trumped-up charges, 11 of them – Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin and 24 Ukrainian Navy...
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on Russia to release Ukrainian citizens illegally sentenced and held in Russian prisons. 458 MPs voted in favor, 80 against, 89 abstained, Ukrainian MP Iryna Gerashchenko reported...
Open letter to PACE Assembly Members: Don’t deprive us of hope for the liberation of our relatives who are imprisoned by Russia Deeply respected PACE Assembly Members, The number of victims of Russia’s undeclared war against...
Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Stanislav Klykh has started a hunger strike in a Russian prison, according to Tatiana Shchur, a Russian human rights defender. “Today, Stanislav Klykh’s mother called me and told me...
The peninsula had disappeared from the first pages of international media outlets long ago. Ukrainian journalists rarely travel for stories from Crimea. The only ones who stir up the information wave come from inside the occupied peninsula...
How can you brainwash people into believing what you want? Russia has it down to a science. In Soviet times, journalism and philology students studied spets, or combat propaganda – the art of sowing discord in the enemy’s ranks by...
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