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....
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...
Crimean court cancels arrest of activist jailed for Ukrainian flag
On Monday, 4 December, Ukrainian Crimean activist Volodymyr Balukh is expected to come home after a year he spent in Russian custody. The Moscow-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea has satisfied the motion of the defense...
“The highest value is the person with a sense of dignity”: letter of activist jailed for Ukrainian flag in Crimea
The Crimean farmer Volodymyr Baluch, sentenced by a Russian occupational court to three years and seven months in colony for the demonstration of his active pro-Ukrainian position, wrote a letter to Ukrainians who do not...
“If people forget about freedom, dignity, honor, the world will cease to exist” – man sentenced for Ukrainian flag in occupied Crimea
I won’t say anything now for the court. I’ll say it for the people, not only for those present here now, but also for those outside this building. To begin with, there is actually no...
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,...