In 2017 Russian separatist forces detained Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev in Donetsk while he was covering news for RFE/RL. The occupation court accused him of espionage and extremism and sentenced him to 15 years in jail....
Starting from 2015, Stanislav Aseyev worked for different media in his hometown of Donetsk, wring his op-eds mostly for Radio Liberty. On 11 May 2017, the so-called Day of the Republic, local police detained him on his way home from the...
Before the Russian occupation of Donetsk, what is now a prison was home to the international charity foundation “IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives,” and hosted various art exhibitions and events. And now those...
Kyiv-based former Donetsk journalist Stanislav Aseiev, who had spent 28 months behind bars in his Russian-occupied hometown for his pro-Ukrainian position, was first to report on Kulikovsky’s detainment: “The main war criminal...
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...
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The photo was posted by the anonymous Donetsk Tractorist channel on 27 January. Read also: Donetsk art center...
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying for Ukraine – went through the facility. In particular, for 28 months, terrorists held journalist and blogger...
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms – the Russian-language Internet is full of videos showing the threat coming from radical groups. They can call themselves pro-Russian guerillas in...
On 9 June 2017, the once Donetsk-located creative platform IZOLYATSIA marked the third year since it moved to Kyiv. “I do not know what Americans feel on 9/11, but for us the 9th of June is a special day. However, we do not want to...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
