Pastor Anatoliy Voloshyn, who was among the 130 Ukrainians exchanged on March 7, 2023 has finally returned home. The sight of the Ukrainian flag waving proudly and the first phone call to his family brought immense joy. Voloshyn shakes his...
The recent coverage of the system of torture and rape in Russian penal institutions has had two important consequences as far as Russian public opinion is concerned. On the one hand, it has revealed significant support among the population...
Vladimir Osechkin, head of the Gulagu.net project which has provided video tape confirmation of torture in Russian prisons, says that Moscow which this evidence shows created a system of torture in its prisons and camps has now lost...
Prisons and even their reputation for brutality are an important support for the Putin regime because Russians do not want to risk falling into them and thus are more willing to go along with what the regime wants. But for that threat to...
The portal GULAGU.Net (“No to the GULAG” – a volunteer project against corruption and torture in Russia) has obtained 40 gigabytes of Russian penal system video archives documenting Penal Service and FSB agents...
Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system has fallen in recent years, but it has not stressed two current shortcomings of the system: the number of prisoners per 100,000 (434)...
Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by the case of Rizvan Ibragimov who has been subject to electro-shocks and other forms of torture for writing a history of Chechnya challenging the version approved by Ramzan...
Oleksandr Kolchenko from Crimea, who is held prisoner in Russia, met with his mother for three days. This information was reported on Facebook on May 28 by Olha Afanasyeva, the mother of Hennadiy Afanasyev, another Ukrainian from Crimea...
Oleksandr Kolchenko from Crimea, who was illegally convicted in the Russian Federation, does not intend to ask for clemency, says his lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina Sidorkina was allowed to meet Kolchenko for the first time after his transfer...
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...
