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War in Donbas

“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…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Political prisoners

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…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Political prisoners

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…

byYuliia Rudenko

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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…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Crimea

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…

byAlya Shandra

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“An attempt to ban memory.” Why Russia wants to shut down its top human rights NGO Memorial

Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia's most famous human rights organization, accusing it…

byAlya Shandra

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Political prisoners

“There is no greater humiliation than reducing a person to an animal without any rights.” Kremlin hostages share their prison survival strategies

Тoday, 127 Ukrainian citizens are illegally imprisoned in Russia and occupied Crimea for political reasons, and 283 Ukrainians…

byBohdan Ben

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Kyiv photographer displays the wounds of war

In 2014, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and certain parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, thus breaching international…

byChristine Chraibi

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Putin’s Hostages, documentary about Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, available online

Euromaidan Press is making the documentary Putin's Hostages: Ukrainian political prisoners of the Kremlin, freely available online. The…

byAlya Shandra

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Russia’s vile attempts to discredit the Crimean Tatars must not be kept silent

After the occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian authorities launched a wave of raids and searches in Crimean…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Being yourself is not a crime: look into the eyes of kids of Crimean Tatar political prisoners jailed by Russia

Childhood is a time of brightest memories, which you remember for the rest of your life. The childhoods…

byUkrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Political prisoners

Constructing the terror: Russia’s forged cases of “Ukrainian extremism”

The “spies” and the “terrorists” In late March this year, the Military Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don…

byMartin Fornusek

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Russia now has more political prisoners than USSR did in 1976

Two years ago, Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza pointed out that Vladimir Putin’s Russia had more political prisoners than…

byPaul A. Goble

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Crimea

Crimean Platform sets the scene for deoccupation, all UN members should join – Ukrainian expert at UNSC

Dear Ladies and Gentleman, First of all, allow me to thank the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Political prisoners

Ukrainian ex-Kremlin hostages launch platform to free political prisoners held by Russia

Russia's seven-year hybrid war against Ukraine has resulted in not only the seizure of Crimea and eastern Ukraine…

byAlya Shandra

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History of Ukraine

Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 44

In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…

byUkrainian media sources

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Crimean Tatars in the crosshairs of Russia’s war on Muslims

On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably…

byAlya Shandra

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Russia

Why Ukraine should support Yuri Dmitriev, Russian historian unearthing Stalin’s repressions

On July 22, a court in Russia’s Karelia region sentenced 64-year-old historian Yuri Dmitriev. The man was found…

byUkrayinska Pravda

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Surviving the “DNR/LNR”. Photo project reveals the horror of captivity

Among the heroes of the photo project called “After Captivity”, there are several well-known prisoners, namely artist Serhiy…

byRadio Liberty

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Russian Aggression

“Russians taught how to torture.” Ex-captives of Donbas “republics” share horrors of basement prisons

A massive prisoner swap in which Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages held in occupied Donbas were released became…

byOlena Makarenko