Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin Kostenko released after sentence expires; some 70 remain
Below is Kostenko right after stepping out of his prison in Kirovo-Chepetsk. He is expected to arrive to Kyiv on 6-7 August and will receive temporary accommodation and hopefully, financial support. Kostenko was arrested in...
World intellectuals implore politicians to boycott World Cup until Russia frees Ukrainian political prisoners
Fragment of poster to boycott the World Cup by Andriy Yermolenko Republished from Euromaidan Press An open letter published on Open Democracy is appealing to leaders of governments, the teams of which will play at the...
Ukrainian filmmaker on hunger strike for 70 Ukrainian hostages asks G7 to help them all
Republished from Euromaidan Press Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who on 14 May announced a hunger strike until Russia releases all Ukrainian political prisoners it is holding, has written a letter to the G7 leaders asking for...
From Crimea to Siberia: the prisons where Russia holds hunger-striking political prisoners Sentsov&Kolchenko
First published on Euromaidan Press The Ukrainian TV channel Hromadske has released its English-language version of a documentary on Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko. It shows the Russian colonies in the Arctic and Ural mountains...
Filmmaker Sentsov launches hunger strike untill Russia releases all Ukrainian political prisoners
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov whom Russia sentenced to 20 years in prison has announced a termless hunger strike, demanding to free all the Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russia. He announced this is in a...
60 MEPs call on the EU to boycott FIFA-2018 over Russian wars, Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin
60 Members of the European Parliament from 16 EU countries and 5 different political groups have signed an open letter calling upon EU governments to boycott the FIFA World Cup 2018, which is planned to...
Volodymyr Balukh, Crimean jailed for Ukrainian flag, announces termless hunger strike
Article by: Alya Shandra with contributions by Ihor Vynokurov; first published at Euromaidanpress Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean activist who flew the Ukrainian flag over his house in Russian-occupied Crimea, has gone on a termless hunger strike....
Sanctions needed to free Ukrainian captives in Russia
Sanctions and high-profile negotiators are the most effective tools for the release of Ukrainians held hostage by the Kremlin. These are the findings of a study by media and legal experts from the Ukrainian Media Initiative for...
Crimean court sentences activist who flew Ukrainian flag in gravely falsified trial
On 16 January 2017, Volodymyr Balukh, the Crimean farmer who kept raising the Ukrainian flag above his house after Russia’s occupation of Crimea, was sentenced to three years and seven months in prison in a second trial...
Here’s what the youngest prisoner of the Kremlin wants you to know
If you were a 19-year old lad held in Russian jail for no crime save for being a representative of your own nation, what would you wish? For the first time in four months, the...