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Ihor Vynokurov is a historian, civic activist, and contributor to Euromaidan Press. He is actively engaged in the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign advocating for the release of the Ukrainian prisoners illegally held in Russia and occupied Crimea, as well as the Academy of Public Diplomacy of the Crimean Tatar People. He is also a volunteer of the New Donbas NGO, which promotes peace education and dialogue for the young generation in East Ukraine.
This article is the third part of “An email to the realm of shadows,” Euromaidan Press’ series on the post-Soviet archives in Ukraine and Russia. In the early 90s, there was much hope in Russia that the...
In December 2017, the Ukrainian civic initiative Euromaidan SOS awarded its annual Volunteer Prize to the Crimean Tatar activist Suleyman (Marlen) Asanov. Asanov is known for his altruistic support of the families targeted by the political...
On 23 November, Russian secret police (FSB) raided two cafes and a number of houses in Crimea’s capital, Simferopol, where they searched and detained several aged Crimean Tatars. 83-y.o. Vedzhie Kashka, a prominent figure in the...
On Monday, 4 December, Ukrainian Crimean activist Volodymyr Balukh is expected to come home after a year he spent in Russian custody. The Moscow-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea has satisfied the motion of the defense and annulled the...
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...
The people whose joint efforts were crowned with the recent discharge of two prisoners, can and should make Russia release more, Chiygoz, deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, said at Svoboda Slova talk show...
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...
Victims of the Russian “police of thought” On 2 October, masked Russian security officers raided the house of Renat Suleymanov, a father of three daughters living nearby Simferopol, the capital of occupied Crimea. They took...
The delegates of the 83th congress of PEN International convened in Lviv, West Ukraine, assure that they will not stop demanding the release of Oleg Sentsov, as well as other Ukrainians and Russians persecuted by the Kremlin regime for...
In its response to the verdict, the US 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 Chiygoz...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
