Below is Kostenko right after stepping out of his prison in Kirovo-Chepetsk. He is expected to arrive to Kyiv on 6-7 August and will receive temporary accommodation and hopefully, financial support. Kostenko was arrested in February 2015....
Ilmi Umerov, Deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, was awarded the Prize of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience-2017. The ceremony took place on November 8, during the platform conference “100 Years of...
The officers of Ukraine’s State Border Service (DPSU) Ihor Dzyubak and Bohdan Martson disappeared in Sumy Oblast, near Ukraine’s border with Russia, at the beginning of October. The border has not been demarcated on the ground in that...
On 26 October, journalist Roman Bochkala wrote on Facebook that an “LNR” court sentenced a fan of the Luhansk Zorya football club, blogger Vlad Ovcharenko to 17 years in a strict-regime colony. The occupation authorities of...
The recent release of convicted Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhmet Chiygoz marks the first release of political prisoners this year. The official number of hostages freed from the Donbas this year also accounts to two civilians,...
While Pavlo now faces 5 to 10-year imprisonment, his life remains at risk as he has a disability related to the work of his blood circulatory system. After the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights, Russia reported that he is...
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...
In the resolution adopted on 16 March 2017, the EP deplores the lack of freedom of expression and association in Crimea and forced imposition of Russian citizenship on its residents, as well as discrimination and intimidation of Crimean...
The famous Hollywood actor and director Johnny Depp has spoken out in support of his colleague, the Ukrainian director and Kremlin’s political prisoner Oleg Sentsov. Thereby Depp joined the global campaign Imprisoned for Art, which...
In a tragic confirmation of truth behind Stalin’s dictum that a single death is a tragedy but a million is only a statistic, media coverage of the horrific beating of Ildar Dadin by his Russian jailers has attracted widespread attention...
Four years after the Euromaidan Revolution, many people are wondering what it changed, and what it brought Ukraine. What is your opinion? I look at it from another point of view. It wasn’t Euromaidan that changed something – it was...
