Viewers signed postcards to Kremlin hostages at the premiere of film on Ukraine’s fight for freedom
At the Kyiv premiere of the documentary ‘Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine,’ presented by its co-authors, the winner of three Oscars Mark Jonathan Harris and director of the historical movies ‘Mamay‘ &...
Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko celebrates birthday in Putin’s prison
It is the 131st day since his unlawful detention in Moscow. What happens if your son, father, or spouse is arrested by the state that is waging a war on your own nation and casts...
Tell about the Kremlin hostages at the Berlinale
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine didn’t stop with the occupation of Crimea and war in Donbas. Absurd trials with fabricated cases, conspiratorial accusations of “terrorism,” imprisoned lawyers and journalists, repressions against the native population of Crimea...
Stop the persecution of human rights lawyers in occupied Crimea!
The violent attack against lawyers carrying out their professional duties and defending rights of Ukrainian citizens in the occupied peninsula has been expanding during last two days. On 25 January, lawyer Nikolai Polozov was detained...
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...
“Russian PEN Center got broken on Sentsov”
That is how the Russian journalist Serguei Parkhomenko has commented on the decision on his lifelong expulsion from the creative association for alleged “provocative activity.” He believes the expulsion is directly linked to his criticism...
“Not for a moment do we forget you:” Odesans write to Putin’s Ukrainian prisoners
These winter days, warm greetings from the Ukrainian city of Odesa are going to the political prisoners Oleksandr Kolchenko, Oleg Sentsov, Mykola Karpyuk, Viktor Shur and Oleksiy Chyrniy, who suffer in Russian jails having committed...
“Horror of imprisonment will end with your victory:” Ukrainian officials send greetings to Kremlin’s hostages
Ukraine’s Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories & IDPs joins the New Year Marathon of Letters to Kremlin’s hostages run within the campaign #LetMyPeopleGo. Minister for Occupied Territories Vadym Chernish and his deputy Yusuf Kurkchi have...
“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...
How Russian ‘law enforcers’ humiliate their Muslim prisoners in Crimea
The relatives of political prisoners united in the Crimean Solidarity movement have discussed the disgraceful and humiliating treatment of the defendants in the ‘Crimean Muslim case’ by Russian security officers. This has been reported by...