Seven years on, Russian state propaganda continues to exploit tragedy in Ukraine.

The Russian FSB burst into Ivan Pavlov’s hotel room in Moscow early on 30 April, carried out a search and detained the well-known lawyer and head of the legal and journalist initiative Team 29.

Andriy Antonenko has been released under 24-hour house arrest after spending over 500 days in custody (Update)

Andriy Antonenko has been released under 24-hour house arrest after spending over 500 days in custody (Update)

Russia has been taken to court for destroying Chersonese World Heritage site in occupied Crimea

The Russian FSB came for Ernest Seitosmanov at 6 a.m. on 28 April, almost exactly three years after the first such armed ‘search’ which ended with his brother, Enver, arrested and later sentenced to 17 years without any crime

The Russian FSB came for Ernest Seitosmanov at 6 a.m. on 28 April, almost exactly three years after the first such armed ‘search’ which ended with his brother, Enver, arrested and later sentenced to 17 years without any crime

The Russian-controlled High Court in occupied Crimea has upheld a sentence against Yalta rights activist Yunus Masharipov which could result in him imprisoned indefinitely in a psychiatric institution.

The Russian-controlled High Court in occupied Crimea has upheld a sentence against Yalta rights activist Yunus Masharipov which could result in him imprisoned indefinitely in a psychiatric institution.

State institution “Berdiansk Correctional Colony No.77” is a minimal security level institution for holding male prisoners convicted for the first time for the minor offences.

Almost exactly two years after Rayim Aivazov was seized by FSB officers and tortured, one of his abductors has appeared at the civic activist’s ‘trial’ as witness for the prosecutio

Almost exactly two years after Rayim Aivazov was seized by FSB officers and tortured, one of his abductors has appeared at the civic activist’s ‘trial’ as witness for the prosecutio

This is one of two prosecutions after an effective raid on the mosque in Alushta on 30 March and part of an aggressive offensive against a Muslim community clearly viewed as ‘too independent’.

Independent journalists have used a Russian railway tracking service to confirm how Moscow sent thousands of tons of ‘explosive substances’ to occupied Donbas in early 2015 and to identify the Russian military sites from which they were sent.

As has been the case in all analogous trials involving Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses from occupied Crimea, the ‘indictment’ against Rayis Mavliutov pointed only to legal activities normal for any devout believer

As has been the case in all analogous trials involving Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses from occupied Crimea, the ‘indictment’ against Rayis Mavliutov pointed only to legal activities normal for any devout believer

News that Russia is withdrawing its troops coincided with the seizure of another supposed Ukrainian ‘spy’, as well as an armed ‘operation’ against a Crimean Tatar, also allegedly in connection with the ‘search for terrorists’.

News that Russia is withdrawing its troops coincided with the seizure of another supposed Ukrainian ‘spy’, as well as an armed ‘operation’ against a Crimean Tatar, also allegedly in connection with the ‘search for terrorists’.

After two acquittals and a sentence much shorter than that demanded, new measures were taken in Russia to secure a long sentence against world-renowned historian of the Soviet Terror, Yury Dmitriev

The sentence was passed on a member of the indigenous people of Crimea, in the language and in a newspaper of that indigenous people, at the beginning of the 20th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues