Major Russian NGOs have addressed an important appeal to two UN Special Rapporteurs over Russia’s violation of the right to religious freedom and freedom of association through its persecution of Muslims on trumped up charges.

Russia’s persecution of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and its believers has hit a new low

Russia’s persecution of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and its believers has hit a new low

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has upheld the appalling 6.5-year sentence passed on Viktor Stashevsky. The news comes a week after new arrests

Andriy Novokreshchenov had claimed on social media that Ukraine had never existed and called for a ‘people’s referendum’ on merging part of Ukraine with Russia and Belarus

Kovalyov was one of the last surviving members of a Soviet generation that championed human rights in the late 1950s and the '60s to place it firmly on the global political agenda

A ‘court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea has sentenced 71-year-old Ilver Ametov, Head of the Sudak Regional Mejlis, to eight months restriction of liberty following an absurd ‘trial’ evidently staged because of Ametov’s role in the Mejlis

A day after she was detained while trying to cross into mainland Ukraine, Yalta blogger Lyudvika Papadopulu has been placed under house arrest from 20.00 to 08.00, and has been prohibited from using the Internet at all

The Russian prison where Yevhen Karakashev is serving a 6-year sentence for civic activism and a social media post is trying to prevent Ukraine’s Consul from visiting the Ukrainian political prisoner from Crimea

A new survey has found a terrifying increase in the number of young adults who support a monument to Joseph Stalin, and a sizeable majority overall who believe that there should be a ‘Stalin Centre’ museum complex

A new survey has found a terrifying increase in the number of young adults who support a monument to Joseph Stalin, and a sizeable majority overall who believe that there should be a ‘Stalin Centre’ museum complex

Russia is using ‘terrorism’ charges against Crimean Tatar political prisoners, with the FSB involved in such flawed cases known to receive bonuses or promotion

The District Administrative Court in Kyiv has allowed a claim by Oleksandr Marynchenko, one of the former Berkut officers accused of gunning down unaimed Maidan activists on 20 February 2014 and has reinstated him in Ukraine’s police force.

The District Administrative Court in Kyiv has allowed a claim by Oleksandr Marynchenko, one of the former Berkut officers accused of gunning down unaimed Maidan activists on 20 February 2014 and has reinstated him in Ukraine’s police force.

Ukrainian police launched a murder investigation on August 3 after missing Belarusian activist Vital Shyshou was found hanged in a park near his home in Kyiv.

Since its invasion of Crimea, Russia has abducted and imprisoned a large number of Ukrainians, in several cases holding them incommunicado for many months and mercilessly torturing them to extract ‘confessions’ to non-existent crimes

Putin’s decrees making it easy for Ukrainians in Donbas to obtain Russian citizenship were internationally condemned as an act of hostility against Ukraine and this new development should surely receive just as firm a response

The letter from 66-year-old Halyna Dovhopola essentially confirms suspicions that the pensioner was targeted because of her pro-Ukrainian views

Judging by his reasons for preferring to remain in detention, Roman Lyahin has provided the Ukrainian prosecutor with information not only about Ukrainian militants, but also about Russian military personnel and civilians involved in the conflict

Details of the weaponization of a child in Russia’s attack on the world-renowned historian who helped restore the truth about Stalin’s Terror