“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…
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“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
“I didn’t reach the war but ended up in prison instead,” Oleg Sentsov’s interview with Novaya Gazeta
On your exchange day, we all watched cars with blacked-out windows and security jeeps leaving Lefortovo Detention Center…
“They can destroy buildings, but not the spirit,” – Crimean Archbishop on Russia’s religious persecution
Russia continues to oppress Ukrainian citizens in the occupied Crimea not only for their civil stance, but also…
Nikolai Polozov: the Kremlin can take as many hostages as it wants to use as bargaining chips with Ukraine & West
The euphoria from the prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia which took part on 7 September has somewhat…
Ex-Kremlin prisoners tell about torture, horrors of Russian prisons
On 7 September 2019, 35 Ukrainians returned home from Russian prisons. Among them were the 24 sailors whom…
An unequal exchange: the spies and terrorists Russia got for releasing Oleg Sentsov and 34 other Ukrainian political prisoners & POWs
For Ukraine, the Ukraine-Russia prisoner swap on 7 September was euphoric and touching. 35 men, of them 11…