Crimeans and Donbas residents appeal en masse to European Court of Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg) is considering over 2 000 individual appeals concerning events in Crimea and…
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There can be no delay in implementing Minsk clause to release hostages
According to official reports, 130 people remain imprisoned in the occupied territories of Donbas. Among them are both…
New Normal in Russia: Putin Critics Punished with Harsh Prison Terms
In the final days of 2015, as the world's attention was focused on Syria, refugees and terrorism, Russia…
War crimes in occupied Donbas: every second prisoner tortured, 16% witnessed executions
Terror as a Method of Warfare In the spring of 2014, armed thugs started to kidnap and torture people…
Psychiatric hospitals – a yet untouched corner of post-Maidan Ukraine
These are eyes I will not forget for many years to come: the sad eyes of men and…
Human rights activists need to fight on two fronts – Euromaidan SOS coordinator
I represent the civil initiative Euromaidan SOS that was created in response to the brutal actions of Ukrainian authorities…
Rights advocate forced to use ‘Russian-English samizdat’ to speak truths unwelcome in Russia and the West
Sergey Kovalyev, a political prisoner in Soviet times and founder of the Memorial human rights group, says that…
Night Serenades: MFA Concert for Ukraine’s political prisoners in Russia
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that the National Chamber Ensemble "Kyiv Soloists" will hold a classical…
Twitter storm to support Crimean Tatars on May 18
On 18 May from 11.00 to 13.00 EEST (GMT + 3) twitter users can join a solidarity action with the Crimea…
Kazakhstan: state-managed elections against the backdrop of the authorities’ crackdown on dissent
Early presidential elections resemble a staged play under the facade of democracy. Uncompetitive elections are a way for…
No place for gays in Putin’s Crimea
Ever since the illegal annexation of Crimea, human rights watchdogs have been concerned with the drastic human rights…
Human rights advocate detained by militants: OSCE betrayed us
Russian human rights advocate, journalist and photographer Victoria Ivleva has been a volunteer in the conflict zone in east…
25 years after Sakharov’s death, the world needs his ideas even more
Twenty-five years ago, on December 14, 1989, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died of a heart attack at the age…
Activists waited for victims of Putin’s regime at arrival of Russian flight in Prague
Activists in Prague's airport held 10 signs with the names of people that died or seriously suffered from…
Political prisoner count skyrockets in Russia
The human rights situation in Russia has plummeted back into Soviet times. Over the past four months, the number…
KyivPride: time to tell our story to the world
We started KyivPride, first in Ukrainian history, only two years ago, but it seems like we already had…
De-Stalinization fails in Russia: Putin destroys Memorial
I remember clearly when in the late '80s and early '90s there were "Weeks of Memory" in Moscow,…
Facebook, Twitter and Google: the mechanics of disconnecting
The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media began preparations to block Facebook, Twitter…
Iryna Dovhan, the woman humiliated by terrorists in Donetsk, speaks of her ordeal
Shortly after being released from terrorist captivity, Iryna Dovhan, whose photos, wrapped in a Ukrainian flag and tied to…
Is there a resumption of political psychiatry in the former USSR?
By Robert van Voren Introduction Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, the former Soviet Union is again…