Spirits unbroken: “Crimean Solidarity” pays $14,000 of fines of repressed activists with coins
In December 2017, the Ukrainian civic initiative Euromaidan SOS awarded its annual Volunteer Prize to the Crimean Tatar…
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Russian aggression in Europe and in Ukraine in particular.
How falling for Putin’s Crimea narrative will feed Russian expansionism
In summer 2017, the German Bundestag election campaign was rocked by an unexpected statement from the leader of…
Sister of youngest Ukrainian prisoner of the Kremlin asks Council of Europe if it’s ready to give up its values
The European Convention on Human Rights stipulates that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person…
Children of war: 17-year-old Misha and Artur talk about their fathers, childhood and war
My father, Viktor Makidon, was an officer in the Myrotvorets Battalion. He died of a heart attack in…
“If a doctor saves one life at war, he saves an entire world.” The story of a military surgeon in Ukraine
“He wasn’t in agony because his right hand had been severed; he very calmly asked, “Will I live…
Russian occupiers now hold at least 70 political prisoners in Crimea
To mark International Human Rights Day, the Crimean Human Rights Defense Group has released an infographic on the…
Putin’s export of corruption — a key part of his hybrid war against the West, Babchenko says
The post-1945 world order is coming to an end, in no small part because of Vladimir Putin’s successful…
Breaking the rules: Crimea, disinformation, doping
On December 2, the news broke that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to sanction Russia’s participation in the 2018…
Arming Ukraine: capability requirements—a view from Kyiv
Much of the recent discussion in NATO capitals focuses on whether Ukraine should be supplied with “lethal aid”…
Ukraine may swap its 74 hostages in occupied Donbas before New Year
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on…
New Ukrainian ‘Cyborgs’ war film chronicles heroic defense of Donetsk Airport
The fierce fight for Donetsk International Airport over the winter of 2014/2015 became much more than a battle…
Donbas on the brink of environmental catastrophe
Chemical plants and steel mills are just some of the more than four thousand ticking ecological time bombs…
Russian occupiers making Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar ‘outcast’ languages
Since the 2014 Anschluss, Moscow has often tested out policies of repression on the Ukrainian peninsula that it…
Moscow Patriarchate’s moves strengthen Russia’s hand in Ukraine, Kryuchkov says
The decision of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) to allow the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Russia aims to smear Mejlis after latest raid on Crimean Tatars which left one dead and imprisoned four
On 23 November, Russian secret police (FSB) raided two cafes and a number of houses in Crimea’s capital,…
World-famous intellectuals call on Putin to release filmmaker Sentsov before 2018 Football Cup
As both the Russian presidential election and the FIFA World Cup in Russia are approaching, and Oleg’s health…
Moscow Patriarchate hasn’t ‘freed’ Ukrainian Orthodox Church but rather imposed new limits
The amendments to the rules governing the Russian Orthodox Church have been presented as giving the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Moscow intensifies its efforts to use Russian emigres to promote Kremlin policies
At least in part because the Bolsheviks came out of emigration to take power, Moscow has long viewed…
Marine Commander Sukharevsky: We’ll never give up Mariupol!
-The army is a mirror of our society, and children are our future. We soldiers may look very…
Northern Kazakhstan likely to be Putin’s next target for aggression
Given that Vladimir Putin very much hopes to get a new political boost like the one he received…