dissidents Archives - Euromaidan Press

lisbon city council portugal 2006 flickr/vitor oliveira 320844669_a808cb9188_b

1 minute read

Latest news Ukraine

Lisbon City Council hit with €1 million fine for sharing anti-Putin protesters’ data with Russia

Lisbon's court has ordered the city council to pay a €1 million fine for illegally sharing the personal data of anti-Putin protesters with the Russian embassy in 2021.

byYuri Zoria

8 minute read

Political prisoners

How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today

12 January is the Day of the Ukrainian political prisoner, established to honor people who were imprisoned on…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

10 minute read

International

United against the Empire | Documentary digs into centuries-deep roots of Ukrainian-Lithuanian friendship

The documentary UA-LT For Your and Our Freedom by the director Larysa Artiugina reveals the aspects of the…

byOlena Makarenko

6 minute read

History of Ukraine

Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 44

In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…

byUkrainian media sources

4 minute read

International

Belarusian dissidents in 1999-2000: sudden disappearances & unsolved murders

Yury Zakharenka was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus in 1995-1996, but was dismissed by Lukashenka in…

byRadio Liberty

21 minute read

How important were the Soviet dissidents: the case of Ukraine

Those who were active in Ukrainian diaspora communities in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were keenly aware of…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

6 minute read

Ukrainian dissident Oleksa Tykhyy. How a teacher from Soviet Donetsk became “Public Enemy #1”

In his article “Reflections on my native Donetsk” (Думки про рідний донецький край, 1972), Oleksa Tykhyy wrote the…

byRadio Liberty

5 minute read

They broke the Gulag: How Ukrainians overcame the Soviet repressive machine

“They triumphed, though their struggle stretched for 74 years of existence of the communist totalitarian and its concentration…

byRadio Liberty

2 minute read

Culture of Ukraine

How Ukraine’s Vasyl Stus used poems to fight the Soviet Regime

In 1972, Vasyl Stus was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda. As his wife Valentyna Popeliukh recalls the moment: “Until…

byUA TV

8 minute read

How Putin’s Russia is becoming Stalin’s USSR

When the Kursk submarine sank, Vladimir Putin said a prophetic phrase that probably could be applied to the…

byEspreso.TV

6 minute read

Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 40

In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…

byUkrainian media sources

3 minute read

Another death of a Russian opposition journalist: Alexander Shchetinin remembered by Kirillova

Ukrainian authorities have launched a murder investigation into the death of a prominent Russian journalist found shot to death at…

byPaula Chertok

4 minute read

Soviet-era chronicle of human rights violations reanimated in Putin’s Russia

The legendary information bulletin, A Chronicle of Current Events, published by dissidents in the Soviet Union during 1968-1983,…

byKseniya Kirillova

21 minute read

Putin’s Reign of Terror on Russia’s New Dissidents: “Cossacks” Attack Navalny Family as Police Watch

On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund…

byPaula Chertok

7 minute read

More
Opinion

The price for a clear conscience in Russia

Not being able to go home to your own country, to see your parents, to bury your loved…

byKseniya Kirillova