It was the morning of 9 November 2017 when Maryna Yurchak, a chemical technologist from Donetsk, was detained by Russia-controlled militants on her way to work. When Yurchak’s parents had not heard from her for the entire day, they...
On 26 January 2022, the Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) started open hearings on admissibility in the inter-state case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia. The case pertains to the events in...
The voting in the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DPR, LPR) marked the first time that local residents—legally the citizens of Ukraine—voted in Russia’s elections as newly minted citizens...
What is universal jurisdiction? To begin with, states have jurisdiction to investigate crimes committed on their territory, by or against its citizens abroad, or against the interests of a state. But extraterritorial, or universal...
These women include Oksana Parshyna, a pregnant woman detained on 14 May; Nataliya Statsenko, a doctor with a chronic spine condition requiring urgent medical treatment, taken hostage in July 2019; Olena Zaitseva who suffers severe...
Developments in “DNR” and “LNR”: 23 June – 22 July 2021 Russian election campaign begins in Donetsk and Luhansk Russia’s ruling political party, United Russia, began campaigning in the...
In response to a request from RFE/RL, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has released the total number of victims of hostilities in Donbas from 14 April 2014 to 30 June 2021. “The UN High Commissioner for Human...
This February, in order to draw public attention to looming natural, environmental, and industrial disasters in the Donbas, the 3P Consortium comprising international and national NGOs engaged in Ukraine held its second conference...
The Kremlin’s Ukrainian political prisoners in Crimea are left to the mercy of fate. The issues of the occupied peninsula appear to have fallen by the wayside both in Ukraine and on the international plane. But with Ukraine’s...
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reported on his Facebook page the alleged identities of three warders involved in tortures in Donetsk-based...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
