And yet: we will return we will definitely return at least – with our feet forward but: not dead but: not defeated but: immortal Vasyl Stus Black smoke billowed over the forests of Volyn. Bright streaks of artillery fire flashed...
“Shadows billow over me” Vasyl Stus Dariya’s elderly mother, Oleksandra Hnatkivska, stood in the row of prisoners during roll call. She lifted her eyes to the sky, a sufferer pleading to the Almighty: “Remove...
In July and August 1944, barrack no.12 was filled with women prisoners from Ukraine – hundreds of exhausted women and young girls, whose days were numbered. Physical exhaustion did not allow the women to maintain moral stability and...
The night was coming to an end. Four a.m… and not enough sleep. Dozia (Teodoziya) Hayvas and I lay curled up together, totally immobile, on our narrow bunk. These dreadful sleeping conditions provided us with little strength to...
The year was 1943… Almost every inhabitant of Ukraine knew that Hitler’s Third Reich was losing the war. Instigated by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), frequent attacks on retreating German troops intensified all over...
Novaya gazeta has made continuing contributions to exposing the vicious violence of Ramzan Kadyrov’s regime against its opponents, including gays and anyone whom the Chechen leader views as getting in his way. Its latest expose of...
Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsman, says that she has determined that Moscow media reports about the mistreatment of LGBT people in Chechnya should not be believed because Chechen officials say they are untrue and add...
Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has not only sponsored direct attacks on members of the LGBT community in his republic but has adopted a plan for “the final solution of gay issue” and opened the first concentration camp in the...
Terrorists in the Donbas are capturing and torturing people in order to frighten Ukrainians and seize Ukrainian territory, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said on Espreso.TV, October 4. “We have...
The Security Service of Ukraine began the process of identifying locations of concentration camps and mass graves created by terrorists in the Donbas stated Markiyan Lubkivsky, the advisor to the head of the Security Service, at a briefing...
European security has greatly deteriorated in the last months. Europe is experiencing a Russian-induced energy and migration crisis. Belarus is in the process of being integrated into the Russian Federation, potentially losing its...
