“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...
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...
New victim of FSB anti-Ukrainian action seized and beaten in Sevastopol
FSB continues its anti-Ukrainian terrorist action in Crimea. Last Monday, Russia’s security service arrested the farmer Volodymyr Balukh, who did not want to withdraw a Ukrainian flag from his home. Yesterday, ‘law enforcement’ officers hunted and...
His ‘crime’ is fidelity to Ukraine: Crimean farmer faces 4 years in jail
A puppet ‘district court’ in occupied Crimea marked the Russian Constitution Day (December 12) with the arrest of 45-year-old farmer and activist Volodymyr Balukh. Since the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity and the Russian invasion of 2014,...
Dynamo Kyiv fulfills a wish of the son of the Kremlin’s prisoner
On Monday night, a long-cherished dream of 11-year-old Taras Karpyuk, son of the Ukrainian hostage Mykola Karpyuk, came true. Before the super match of the Ukrainian Premier League between Dynamo Kyiv FC and Shakhtar FC,...