Ukraine’s NSDC Secretary Danilov unveils 12 Crimea deoccupation steps
Oleksii Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC), has outlined 12 steps…
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Ukraine calls to recognize 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars was genocide
On the 78th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian foreign ministry called on the…
For Putin, it’s all about Crimea
After several months of Russian statements that the country's security depends on obtaining guarantees that Ukraine and other…
“After the third shock, my brain exploded”: Crimean Tatar activist says FSB tortured him with electricity to obtain “confessions”
On 21 December, Nariman Ametov, a Crimean Tatar activist and the father of three minor children, reported on…
Russia continues to coerce Crimeans into its military and punishes those that resist
In the most recent example, the "court" for the city of Sudak has convicted a nineteen-year-old resident of…
Ukrainian political prisoner, father of four who resisted Crimean occupation starts a hunger strike in Russian prison
What do we know about Ivan Yatskin? On 6 December, Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer of Ukrainian political prisoner…
Are Chechens being purposefully pitted against Crimean Tatars?
Dozens of individuals were detained after clashes in Yevpatoria, in Russian-occupied Ukrainian Crimea, on the night of September…
Russian elections in Ukraine’s Donbas: Annexing people before annexing territory
The voting in the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DNR, LNR) marked the first time that local residents—legally…
“After they electrocuted me, I told them everything they needed.” How Russia’s FSB extracted a “confession” from a Crimean Tatar
Asan Akhtemov and his compatriots were arrested on 3-4 September. On that night, Russian security service officers raided…
Jailing innocent Crimean Tatars to insanely huge terms: a how-to guide from Russia
16 August 2021. More than 150 people have gone all the way from occupied Crimea to Rostov-on-Don in…
Russians relocated to occupied Crimea now make up one-third of the population, experts say
Read also: Russia’s replacement of population in occupied Crimea violates Geneva Convention – UN report (2019) Statistical authorities…
Painkillers instead of hospital: Russia’s torture of critically-ill Crimean Tatar political prisoners continues unabated
Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov Medzhyt Abdurakhmanov is one of the Crimean Tatar political prisoners held in captivity for a crime…
Russia tried to break the Crimean Tatars. Their non-violent resistance only grew stronger.
Since the beginning of the occupation of Crimea, it were the Crimean Tatars who suffered the brunt of…
Torture and imprisonment is the price of freedom of speech in Russia-occupied Crimea
While the first victims of Russian repressions in occupied Crimea were pro-Ukrainian activists who openly resisted occupation, today…
“Hell. Despair. The feeling of absurdity.” Ukrainian journalist jailed in occupied Crimea describes FSB torture in harrowing letters
Who is Vladyslav Yesypenko? Vladyslav Yesypenko comes from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. A year before…
Seven years of occupation of Crimea: human rights activists systematise human rights violations on peninsula
Despite this, as the authors of the report note, the movement of resistance to the occupation of Crimea…
Win for Ukraine as PACE adopts strong resolution in support of Crimean Tatars persecuted by Russia
1. To begin with, a PACE resolution focusing on the issue of Russia-occupied Crimea and the rights of…
“I do not want my children to live in a country of terror.” Four inspiring letters from Crimean Tatar political prisoners not broken by Russia
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian occupation authorities have established a highly repressive regime on…
Russia’s vile attempts to discredit the Crimean Tatars must not be kept silent
After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities launched a wave of raids and searches in Crimean…
Putin repeating Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Tatars in slow motion
But on this anniversary, the first since the easing of the pandemic, Crimean Tatars both in the homeland…