Pickets in support of Crimean Tatars, against Kremlin repression held in St. Petersburg
On January 18, the Russian opposition initiative Strategy 18 has held its third action in the center of St. Petersburg to protest official xenophobia and oppression of the native people in Russian-occupied Crimea. The...
“To correct profound injustice”: members of Russian PEN Center call on Putin to free Sentsov
More than eighty Russian writers, journalists, and scholars, mostly the members of the Russian PEN Center and the Free Historical Society, have signed the petition calling on President Putin to pardon the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg...
French artists call to free Oleg Sentsov and imprisoned Russian artists
Multiple filmmakers and cultural actors around the world (including Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina) are mobilizing for the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. The latter was arrested in May 2014, a few days after the annexation of...
UN condemns Russian occupation of Crimea, calls for release of Ukrainian hostages
The UN General Assembly has given its final approval to the resolution on Russia’s human rights violations in Crimea and called for the undelayable release of the Ukrainians illegally held in custody in the peninsula. Today the...
Johnny Depp joins campaign in support of Oleg Sentsov
The famous Hollywood actor and director Johnny Depp has spoken out in support of his colleague, the Ukrainian filmmaker and Kremlin’s political prisoner Oleg Sentsov. Thereby Depp joined the global campaign Imprisoned for Art, which...
Maria Alyokhina in UK Parliament: Our cause should be life and liberation of Sentsov
The speech delivered by the human rights activist, ex-prisoner of the Putinist regime Masha Alyokhina in the House of Commons, London, October 10, 2016. I was in jail in the case of Pussy Riot for two years. Over...