The number of thefts and robberies has halved during the war, Ukraine’s Police informed. In particular, since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the police registered 212,000 crimes which is a 12% decrease. Yet, the...
ft “Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of purported strike on prison.” “Russia and Ukraine trade blame over prison blast.” “Russia, Ukraine Accuse Each Other of Prison Attacks That Killed Ukrainian...
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with his political opponents. On the one hand, he wants to spread fear among both others who oppose him and the international system as a whole....
Since Pavel Sheremet was murdered in July 2016 in Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators had a difficult time figuring out the motive. Nothing seemed to fit: the Belarusian-Ukrainian journalist hadn’t authored any hard-hitting investigation...
A resonant murder Pavlo Sheremet, born on 28 November 1971, in Minsk, Belarus, was a journalist in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. In July 1997, while reporting for Public Television of Russia at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, he was...
For over three years, the probe into the assassination of Belarusian journalist Pavlo Sheremet could not find the culprits of the resonant crime in the summer of 2016. In these three years, journalist organizations inside and outside...
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some subordinate group, Igor Eidman says; and once a Kremlin leader demonstrates he is ready to use this technique, the potential hit list...
One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of their crimes is that many in both Russia and the West tend to treat each one as unique rather than see the linkages that exist among them, be it...
1. As a result of this operation: “There is a corpus delicti, components of an accomplished crime: a person has delivered money for an accomplished crime, and this person has been captured.” 2. About why he took part in the...
SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak told journalists that the special service faked the death of Babchenko to catch those who had plotted his assassination. “I could have offered my condolences to the family of Arkadiy Babchenko, but I...
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...