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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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Russia accuses Ukraine of ‘annexing’ Crimea
13.06.2014
Russia’s parliamentary speaker, Sergei Naryshkin has asserted that it was Ukraine that annexed the Crimea, not Russia. Moscow, one senses, has understood that there’s no getting away from the word ‘annexation’ and is trying to hijack it.
Moscow’s ‘special economic zone’ could dispossess Crimeans
11.06.2014
Grandiose plans for the Crimea reveal Moscow’s disregard for the rights of any Crimeans, including the ethnic Russians it claimed to be protecting when it invaded and annexed the peninsula
Russian media claims ‘genocide’ in Semenivka [Donbas]
10.06.2014
The upbeat noises about a “noticeable change” in Russia’s behaviour from Germany’s Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggest that neither he nor his staff are watching the Russian media. There it’s business, as in misinformation, as usual.
Russian history textbook doctors the records on Crimean Annexation
09.06.2014
Russia has already added information about its annexation of the Crimea to a school history textbook with the version presented just as doctored as the results of the ‘referendum’ used to claim overwhelming support for the move
That Flickering Red Line
07.06.2014
G7 countries have given Russia another month for pretending to take measures at ‘de-escalation’ while continuing to wage undeclared war on Ukraine. In the meantime France is free to sell warships to Russia and train the Russian navy on how to use them.
Russia criminalizes ‘concealment’ of dual citizenship
06.06.2014
Putin has signed into force a law which is surely aimed at putting further pressure on Ukrainians living in the Crimea while under Russian occupation.
Coffins and Questions about Russian nationals fighting in Donbas
05.06.2014
On 31 coffins of Russian nationals killed fighting in Donetsk who Kremlin-backed TV was silent about and why equally Kremlin-backed militants are so eager to talk to journalists
The Kremlin’s Propaganda Coup in Donetsk
31.05.2014
There has still been no adequate response from the west to the effective seizure of control in Donetsk by the Vostok Battalion comprised mainly of well-armed and trained fighters from the Russian Federation
Russia’s Conflict of Narratives
30.05.2014
Russian opposition activist, Dmitry Semenov is facing charges for reposting a photo of pro-Russian separatist, Pavel Gubarev. Semenov has been charged because the offending photo showed self-proclaimed ‘people’s governor’ of Donetsk, Gubarev wearing the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity party’s version of a swastika.
Luhansk: Kremlin-backed militants cut off Ukrainian TV channels
29.05.2014
Such attempts at an information blockade are not new. Both the puppet ’government’ in the Crimea and Kremlin-backed militants have sought to gain control of TV and radio frequencies, with Russian propaganda channels being broadcast instead
Mejlis condemns ‘political’ dismissal of Lenur Islyamov
29.05.2014
Refat Chubarov, head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, has called the dismissal of Lenur Islyamov from post of acting ‘deputy prime minister’ of the Crimea a purely political move.
Call for joint Ukrainian-Russian human rights mission for Donbas
28.05.2014
Representatives of human rights organizations in Ukraine and Russia have addressed an open appeal to the Ukrainian and Russian Human Rights Ombudspersons and the Chairperson of the Russian Human Rights Council under the President, Mikhail Fedotov.
Where are the sanctions?
28.05.2014
There were overt – and successful – efforts to disrupt the elections in two regions, and there are now large numbers of trucks with armed fighters crossing the Russian border into Ukraine. Only the ’grave consequences’ for Russia are yet to be seen.
Donetsk region: Hostages to lawless armed militants
24.05.2014
The following statement issued by authoritative Donetsk civic organizations refers mainly to the Donetsk oblast, but also reflects the atmosphere of terror, threats and violence imposed by pro-Russian militants in the neighbouring Luhansk oblast.
Russia’s increasingly repressive grip on Crimea
23.05.2014
Even those pro-Russian protesters in the Crimea who after annexation refused to be dispersed because the police officer was in Ukrainian uniform are in for a rude awakening
Kramatorsk: Women drive armed militants out from their street
21.05.2014
The women walked up to the mini-van in which armed men in masks were sitting and told them to get out, saying that the men were hiding there behind women and children, since the military can’t shoot where civilians could be hurt
Innocent civilian or terrorist: Russian TV caught using old footage
20.05.2014
Russian TV’s latest use of old video footage from the North Caucuses to claim Ukrainian atrocities against civilians was swiftly exposed, unlike the Kremlin’s specific dividing line between terrorists it “destroys” and pro-Russian militants in Ukraine it defends
FSB detains Polish journalist in Crimea over ‘anti-Russian texts’
18.05.2014
Wacław Radziwinowicz, Moscow correspondent for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was held for 6 hours by FSB [security service] officers in Simferopol on May 17
So who is sabotaging Ukraine’s presidential elections?
16.05.2014
By imitating dialogue and putting off any sanctions worth the name, the EU is itself dealing Ukraine’s faltering democracy a grave blow and fuelling a crisis that could engulf other countries in the region
Most Ukrainians view Russian influence as negative
16.05.2014
In the latest Razumkov Centre survey, 73% of all Ukrainians regard Russia’s influence as bad, with only one in ten considering it positive. 52.5 % prioritize relations with the EU, against 16.8% with Russia
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