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

Russian-controlled enforcement officers in occupied Crimea staged yet another ‘operation’ on 22 July, this time targeting a Crimean Tatar family from Yevpatoria and clearly aimed at terrorization

On the fifth anniversary of Pavel Sheremet’s murder, Ukraine’s new Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky has refused to speak with the slain Belarusian journalist’s family and friends

Vladyslav Yesypenko is the tenth civic and / or freelance journalist imprisoned by Russia, with the charges against all ten men very obviously linked with their reporting on the situation under Russian occupation

The ‘trial’ has begun in Russian-occupied Crimea of freelance RFE/RL journalist Vladislav Yesypenko on charges that have received international condemnation

The case against Vladislav Yesypenko is based solely on a grenade which the FSB claim they found in his car, but which does not have his fingerprints, and on a televised ‘confession’ which he retracted as having been obtained through torture

The FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea have announced the completion of their ‘investigative measures’ with respect to Ukrainian journalist, Vladislav Yesypenko, who was arrested on 10 March 2021

Aider Kadyrov is the second person to be convicted in Russian-occupied Crimea of failing to report to the FSB a person he had chatted with on a social media page six years ago

Ukraine’s police were especially active on Victory Day (9 May) this year, with 11 criminal prosecutions initiated under a highly controversial decommunization law

The FSB have been forced to admit that the explosive device which they claim was found in Vladislav Yesypenko’s car does not have his fingerprints on it

Both the Donetsk and Luhansk ‘republics’ already have considerable experience at imprisoning Ukrainians for writing the truth about life in occupied Donbas, or critical comments on Twitter

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

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

. 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

The FSB attached electric wires to Vladislav Yesypenko’s ear lobes and kept increasing the electric current until the pain was so unendurable that he „would admit to whatever they wanted”

Rustem Sheikhaliev recently entered the same Russian court where he had, on so many occasions, reported on political trials. This time, however, it was he who was brought to the court in handcuffs

Bekir Mamutov is on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for publishing a UN report which mentions the Mejlis,, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people

A new, disturbingly Soviet, weapon has been added to Russia’s arsenal of repression in occupied Crimea

A Russian-controlled Crimean TV channel has broadcast an ‘interview’ with Vladislav Yesypenko a week after the Ukrainian journalist was seized in occupied Crimea.

Almost a week after Vladislav Yesypenko was seized in Russian-occupied Crimea, the FSB are preventing the freelance journalist from seeing an independent lawyer