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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.
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St. Petersburg Neo-Nazi Sadist in Donbas – ‘Russia’s Pride and Glory’
12.01.2015
From torturing puppies and calling on fellow neo-Nazis to kill down-and-outs and animals in St. Petersburg, Alexei Milchakov turned to killing Ukrainians in Donbas. Graphic pictures of his time fighting together with Kremlin-backed militants can be found on his VKontakte page – “Alexei Milchakov - Russia’s Pride and Glory”
Ukrainian attitude to Russia’s leadership takes a steep dive
09.01.2015
In the latest Gallup poll about Ukraine, Ukrainians approval of the Russian leadership has plunged from 43% in 2013 to a mere 5% in 2014. In the South and East of the country where the figure in 2013 was higher (57%), the percentage has fallen to 12%.
Latest promise to abolish deputy immunity in 2015
05.01.2015
Assurances that this or that political party will abolish deputy immunity have been made since at least 2006. This time, it is leader of the Petro Poroshenko Faction Yury Lutsenko who has promised that the Verkhovna Rada will cancel deputy immunity through staggered amendments to the Constitution in 2015.
Report on the human rights mission to the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
01.01.2015
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group [KHPG], together with the German NGO ‘European Exchange’ and representatives of NGOs from the Russian Federation and Germany with the support of the German Foreign Ministry, carried out an international mission to monitor human rights in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts on territory which is back under Ukrainian control.
Russian secret trial to convict opponents of Crimean annexation
29.12.2014
More details have emerged of the secrecy behind the closed trial of Gennady Afanasyev whose testimony is the only ‘evidence’ in the ‘Crimean terrorist plot’ case and may be used to get renowned Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and left-wing activist Oleksandr Kolchenko 20 year sentences
Kremlin-backed militants stage propaganda event in face of humanitarian disaster
26.12.2014
As the UN and numerous NGOs warn that Donbas is facing a major humanitarian crisis, with the most vulnerable in danger of starvation, militants from the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ have resorted to coercion and bribery to pull off propaganda stunts in the centre of Donetsk.
60 years on Russia plans to ‘nullify’ transfer of Crimea to Ukraine
24.12.2014
Russia’s upper house of parliament is preparing a bill which will declare the act by which the Crimea formally became part of the Ukrainian SSR of no legal force or consequenceos.
Luhansk CVU: Donbas territory effectively annexed by Russia
18.12.2014
Oleksiy Svyetikov, head of the Luhansk Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine [CVU] paints a grim picture of the situation in the Luhansk oblast and is blunt in rejecting the Human Rights Watch definition of events as ’internal conflict’
Crimean political prisoner forced to defend Ukrainian citizenship in court
12.12.2014
The lawyer of Oleksandr Kolchenko, Crimean left-wing civic activist and opponent of Russian annexation, is trying to uphold her client’s right to retain his Ukrainian citizenship via the courts. Rights activists point out that no Crimean is obliged to prove to the court that s/he is remains a Ukrainian national.
Poroshenko grants Belarusian Neo-Nazi Ukrainian citizenship
08.12.2014
When people are risking, often sacrificing, their lives for their country, quibbles about questionable neo-Nazi views may be out of place. Not, however, when high-ranking official posts and Ukrainian passports are being dished out
Why are Germans asked if they support annexation?
27.11.2014
In a recent ‘opinion poll’ 39% of Germans proved ready to recognize Russia’s demonstration of contempt for international law in annexing the Crimea, and ignorant or indifferent to the flagrant violations of human rights committed since Russia’s invasion.
One in Five Ukrainians took part in EuroMaidan
21.11.2014
If overall throughout the country 37.9% of respondents viewed Euromaidan as a conscious struggle by citizens who had united to defend their rights, this was as high as 70% in the West of Ukraine, and only 3.2% in Donbas
Lustration law to face Constitutional Court scrutiny
20.11.2014
Supporters of the recent lustration law have slammed the decision by Ukraine’s Supreme Court to seek judgment on the law’s constitutionality. Their suspicions as to the motives of those courts which oppose the law may be shared, however so too are concerns about the law in question
Putin’s Media Cocoon, Spun with German Help
18.11.2014
Vladimir Putin’s early departure from G20 probably made sense. At home both his press service and the media have ensured that most Russians learn nothing of his humiliation in Brisbane. They hear plenty, however, of a German TV interview that provided exactly the gentle uncritical questions Putin has come to expect.
G20 PUTIN PACK
14.11.2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia on Nov 15. Please encourage journalists to ask Putin questions that pack a punch, but that only foreigners can ask without risking being hit literally!
G20 Putin Pack: Moscow’s specific funding for the Donbas ’elections’
14.11.2014
On why Russia organized and paid for the ‘observers’ of the ‘elections’ in Donbas it is now only ‘respecting’, not ‘recognizing’ and why for both its Crimean ‘referendum’ and for the Donbas ‘elections’ its ‘observer missions’ were made up of far-right, neo-Nazi or Stalinist politicians
G20 Putin Pack: Russian Offensive against the Crimean Tatars
14.11.2014
Who else could achieve a return to the worst forms of Soviet repression in less than 9 months? Why is Vladimir Putin’s only response to the disappearances and abductions of Crimean Tatars a claim that it’s all news to him?
G20 Putin Pack: Russia’s Crimean Political Prisoners
14.11.2014
How do you formulate questions about a ‘terrorist plot’ trial with no terrorist acts and absurdly miscast suspects? Why would Oleg Sentsov, a world-known film director and solo father become the master-mind behind a right-wing terrorist plot, and recruit Oleksandr Kolchenko, a left-wing activist who couldn’t stand the Right Sector’s views?
G20 Putin Pack: Captured by Militants in Ukraine, Tried in Russia
14.11.2014
How can a Ukrainian military pilot be abducted to Russia after being taken prisoner by militants in Ukraine? Why have the investigators tried to prevent inclusion of testimony that proves Nadiya Savchenko innocent and will they serious charge her with ‘illegally crossing the border’?
G20 Putin Pack: Russia’s Fascist ‘Anti-Fascist’ Crusade
14.11.2014
Why, if Russia claims to be opposing ‘fascists’ in Ukraine, do so many of the militants it supports in eastern Ukraine have links to far-right or neo-Nazi parties? Why is it specifically far-right or Stalinist parties in Europe that support Russia’s annexation of the Crimea and a purported ‘fight against fascism in eastern Ukraine?
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