Putin’s war machine in Ukraine feeds on unpunished Soviet crimes
As Russia revives unpunished Soviet terror tactics, a dissident leader cautions the West: failing to act in Ukraine risks repeating the fatal mistake of appeasement.
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Over 1,126 cases filed in Crimea for ‘discrediting’ Russian army: repression deepens
Russian occupation authorities in Crimea have detained 218 people (including 132 Crimean Tatars), escalated militarization with strategic deployments, all amidst an ongoing ecological disaster from a recent oil spill.
15 Russians raped her for false confession – Ukrainian mother gets 18-year sentence after years of torture in secret Russian prison
A Russian kangaroo court against Ukrainians inadvertently revealed the chilling torture practices at the Izolyatsia "death factory” treated as “entertainment” by her captors.
He fought Putin’s prisons for 10 years – then spent 913 days in one
From defending rights to defending Ukraine, rights advocate Maksym Butkevych confronted his harshest test: surviving 913 days in Russian prisons he once fought from the outside.
Germany releases Russian hitman, enabling largest post-Cold War prisoner exchange
Germany's decision to release Vadim Krasikov, a Russian assassin convicted of a Chechen rebel murder in Berlin, proved crucial and ordered by Putin himself in facilitating a major West-Russia prisoner exchange, initially aimed at freeing Aleksei Navalny, but instead returning other high-profile political prisoners and dissidents in exchange for spies and cybercriminals.
Russian court sentences Ukrainian man to 25 years in prison for alleged railway sabotage
Apart from railway sabotage, the Russian Military Court also charged Serhii Karmazin with espionage, training in sabotage and terrorist activities, and preparation for a terrorist act, while denying him access to a human rights lawyer during the investigation.
Ukrainian religious scholar who survived Russian captivity dies at the age of 69
In Kyiv, people said goodbye to Ukrainian scientist and religious scholar Ihor Kozlovsky, who died on 6 September 2023. The funeral and memorial services were held in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery on 9 September 2023.
Political prisoner returns home after 7 years
Political prisoner Arsen Dzhepparov has returned home today after being 7 years in Russia’s prison. His daughter Evelina…
How Russia fabricated the case against Crimean Tatar leader Dzhelyal
On 18 February at 10 am, the Russia-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea heard a criminal case against Nariman…
Russia sentences RFE/RL freelancer to six years in first case of torture of professional journalist in Crimea
On 9 March, Vladyslav Yesypenko, a RFE/RL journalist who reported on developments in Crimea, filmed a flower-laying ceremony…
How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today
12 January is the Day of the Ukrainian political prisoner, established to honor people who were imprisoned on…
Drawing the life he is not living: prison art by Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin showcased in Berlin | Photos
Take a peek at exclusive photos from Atelier Soldina, an exposition space in Berlin, which saw the opening…
Daily review: Biden and Putin talk (again), Germany opposes Russia’s return to G7, Ukraine imposes sanctions for Crimean bridge
Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions. In one…
This January, send a letter to a Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin
Most of us will spend the cozy winter holidays with our family and good food. But there are…
65-year-old Russian historian of Stalin’s terror has prison sentence extended to 15 years
On 27 December, judge Yekaterina Khomyakova Petrozavodsk City Court (Karelia, Russia) extended Yury Dmitriev‘s 13-year prison sentence by…
“F*cking execute her!” Torture, forced labor, one bottle of water a day: how a Ukrainian woman hostage survived the prisons of Russia-occupied Donbas
“F*cking execute her!” On 19 March 2018, Maryna Chuikova was detained at the Maiorsk checkpoint when going from…
Ukrainian political prisoner, father of four who resisted Crimean occupation starts a hunger strike in Russian prison
What do we know about Ivan Yatskin? On 6 December, Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer of Ukrainian political prisoner…
Crimean Tatar leader Dzhelyal kept in unheated Russian prison as temperatures approach freezing
On 4 September, Pervomayskoye village of Simferopol region of Crimea saw the detention of Nariman Dzhelyal. On 6…
A coffee seller and an entire village family: who are the three detained Ukrainians Russia’s FSB arrested as “spies”
Grani.ru, Russia’s independent website, draws a link between this event and the meeting of Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign…
Russia arrests, fines 30 Crimean Tatars celebrating release of their unjustly imprisoned lawyer with a 50-kilo cake
Crimean Tatar lawyer Edem Semedlyaev was released from a remand prison in occupied Simferopol on the evening of…