NGOs worldwide call upon Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists
NGOs from Europe, USA, and other countries call upon the Ukrainian authorities to stop persecuting anti-corruption activists in…
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BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms – the Russian-language Internet is full of…
The humanitarian factor in Russia’s hybrid war
The recent release of convicted Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhmet Chiygoz marks the first release of…
Experts see Ukraine’s membership in UN Human Rights Council as “counterweight against Russia”
Bohdan Kryklyvenko, the head of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights, is certain that…
Human trafficking scheme forced hundreds of Ukrainians into drug trade in Russia
All “couriers” are tracked via mobile phones that recruiters give them free of charge while they are still…
Ukrainian human right coalition condemns government attacks on NGOs under “Kremlin agent” pretext
Human rights activists accuse the government of attacks on civil society. The Human Rights Agenda platform, an informal…
Russia and its authoritarian friends lag increasingly behind its free enemies, Illarionov says
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those…
Ukraine in danger of receiving an Ombudsman on a “political leash”
The future of Ukraine’s top human rights authority is under jeopardy as the three candidates to be put…
Soviet-era punishment resurfaces in Crimea: the political abuse of psychiatry
On 26 January 2017, a prominent human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was on his way to the home…
History repeats in Russia as FSB raids human rights activist from KGB-repressed family
After the arrest of the Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and growing pressure on his Russian colleague Nikolai…
West’s failure to confront Putin on Olympics convinced him he could invade Ukraine without penalty, Titov says
Many trace the origins of Vladimir Putin’s conviction that the West will ultimately come to accept whatever he…
A tribute to Andrei Sakharov, champion of Freedom
Twenty-seven years ago, on December 14, 1989, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died of a heart attack at the age…
Johnny Depp joins campaign in support of Oleg Sentsov
The famous Hollywood actor and director Johnny Depp has spoken out in support of his colleague, the Ukrainian…
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…
Sakha Constitutional Court in Russia rules ‘all the territory of Yakutia is the historical motherland of the Yakut people’
On October 21, 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) handed down a decision that…
Write to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages on Victims of political repressions day
On October 30, Russia’s Day of Remembrance of the victims of political repressions, write a letter to the…
Watch “Burning Doors” by the Belarus Free Theater online on October 12
The Belarus Free Theater, the only theater in Europe banned by its government on political grounds, will be…
“Snowden” – A Movie About a Hero or a Traitor?
Right now the much ballyhooed Oliver Stone film “Snowden” is showing in the majority of theaters in Russia,…
Religious persecution continues in occupied Donbas
Fundamental human rights in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine are being violated for over 2.5 years now.…
Don’t forget those kidnapped in occupied Crimea
On September 27, a chilly autumn day, several Crimean activists once again protested at the Embassy of the…
