There has been total silence from the main Russian press agencies about Russia’s bombing of a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, and the Russian Union of Journalists never reports anything that could annoy the Kremlin

A 21-year-old Crimean has received an 18-month suspended sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for “pro-Ukrainian slogans” on social media

Iryna Danilovych was held incommunicado for 12 days, with the first eight secretly held and placed under massive pressure by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

Russia committed at least 243 crimes against journalists and the media in the first two months after its 2022 invasion, with these including killings, abductions, torture, threats and attacks on TV towers

Iryna Danilovych, a Ukrainian nurse and civic journalist reporting on medical issues in occupied Crimea, has disappeared after being seized by Russian-controlled enforcement officers on 29 April

A day after Russian invaders held a large number of Ukrainian journalists hostage, trying in vain to get them to collaborate, the occupying forces in Berdiansk have come up with stunningly feeble propaganda to try to justify their invasion

Russia has effectively silenced all sources of objective information about its war against Ukraine at home, and is swiftly moving to seize control of the media where it has seized Ukrainian cities

Update Edem Dudakov has been jailed by an occupation court ten days after he reported the latest irreparable damage which Russia has caused the Khan’s Palace, or Hansaray, in Bakhchysarai, an extremely important monument of Crimean Tatar heritage

This is a chilling attack on independent journalists trying to report on the situation in Russian occupied Crimea

Roman Tsymbaliuk has left Russia, fearing for his personal security after being summoned to a Moscow prosecutor for supposed ‘incitement to enmity’ against Russians

Fukuyama's statement is important since Russia is not only using grotesque ‘terrorism’ charges as a weapon against Crimean Tatar journalists and civic activists, but also claiming that those who speak out in their defence are ‘justifying terrorism’.

At midnight from 21 to 22 December 2021, the world’s only Crimean Tatar television channel ATR looks set to suspend its satellite broadcasting to occupied Crimea

The grenade which Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko is accused of carrying in his car in Russian-occupied Crimea does not fit in the car compartment where the FSB claimed to have found it

A court in Lviv has convicted Olena Boiko of encroaching upon Ukraine’s territorial integrity over her very active role in supporting Russia’s propaganda drive against Ukraine and separatism

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor has addressed a moving letter to Remzi Bekirov in Russian imprisonment, expressing admiration for Bekirov’s work as a journalist in occupied Crimea and clearly stating that Bekirov’s is unjustly imprisoned

Ukraine’s only major English-language newspaper and a vital source of independent journalism has suddenly stopped publishing, with its staff reporting that they arrived at work on 8 November to learn that they had been fired

The ‘judges’ who sentenced Amet Suleimanov to 12 years’ harsh regime imprisonment on 29 October are well aware that the first months would likely kill him. They are doubtless equally aware why the civic journalist was targeted

Russia’s case against Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, is full of bloopers; the FSB’s story is teeming with discrepancies and the attempt to link the journalist with Ukraine’s SBU [Security Service] has collapsed - lawyer Dmitry Dinze

During the latest hearing in the internationally condemned trial in Russian-occupied Crimea of Vladislav Yesypenko, an FSB officer claimed that they released the Ukrainian freelance journalist after detaining and then questioning him

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