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Sentenced to eight years in a Russian prison for being Ukrainian
10.06.2020
Two Ukrainians imprisoned in Russia would almost certainly not be there were it not for their nationality, and there may well be many more such victims
Free Yury Dmitriev!
05.06.2020
International appeal calling on Russian to release Yury Dmitriev, historian of the Gulag and Terror and, since December 2016, a political prisoner
Russia uses punitive psychiatry to imprison shaman publicly seeking to exorcise Putin
03.06.2020
Russia is increasingly reinstating Soviet punitive psychiatry, with the victim this time a Siberian shaman, Alexander Gabyshev who wanted to drive out Russian President Vladimir Putin like an evil spirit
In Memory: Sergei Mokhnatkin, the human rights defender Putin’s Russia mercilessly destroyed
29.05.2020
66-year-old journalist, human rights defender and former political prisoner, Sergei Mokhnatkin, has died in Moscow, seemingly of complications from the serious spinal injuries inflicted by prison staff during one of his politically-motivated sentences.
Russian Deputy Defence Minister: ’Why should we be ashamed of Stalin?’
12.05.2020
While Russian President Vladimir Putin’s face has – for now – been removed from a mosaic in the new Russian Defence Ministry Cathedral, mass murderer Joseph Stalin remains. This is our history, the Deputy Minister of Defence claims, and what is there to be ashamed of?
Russia removes memorial to Katyn Massacre in new attack on historical truth
08.05.2020
On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, Russian officials have removed plaques commemorating Polish officers executed by the NKVD in 1940, while the Soviet Union was still collaborating with Nazi Germany
Imprisoned Russian Historian of the Terror in grave danger as Covid-19 found in prison
07.05.2020
Russian scholars, cultural and political figures have addressed an urgent appeal to the head of the High Court in Karelia, asking for the release from detention of 64-year-old Yuri Dmitriev, a world-renowned historian of the Soviet Terror and recognized political prisoner
How do you explain that Daddy is a political prisoner far away in Russia?
05.05.2020
Anya was just 7 months old when her father, Hennady Lymeshko, was seized by the Russian FSB, tortured into ‘confessing’ to impossible crimes and then convicted on very different charges
Stalin, Putin and ‘annexation of Crimea’ adorn new Russian Defence Ministry church
27.04.2020
Russia’s annexation of Crimea is to form part of the mosaics inside the new Defence Ministry cathedral, together with portraits of mass murderer Joseph Stalin and Russia’s soon-to-be President-for-life, Vladimir Putin
Russia refuses to decriminalize peaceful protest used to imprison defender of Ukrainian political prisoners
22.04.2020
A court in Moscow has only reduced, and not revoked, the prison sentence passed on Konstantin Kotov, a Russian computer programmer who actively helped Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners and tirelessly protested against repression in occupied Crimea
Violent arrest, criminal charges for inconvenient information about COVID-19 in occupied Crimea & Russia
06.04.2020
Warnings that a new criminal norm could be used to silence those telling the truth about the coronavirus pandemic were effectively confirmed by the behaviour of enforcement officers in Russia and occupied Crimea in the first days of April
Historian of the Soviet Terror dies in a Russian Prison
03.04.2020
Sergei Koltyrin has died in a prison hospital in Russia, less than a year after being sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment on dubious charges
Russian thought police interrogate activist over letters to Ukrainian political prisoner
19.03.2020
Officers from Russia’s so-called Centre for fighting extremism have appeared at the home of activist Tatyana Kasyanova and interrogated her over her correspondence with Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Shumkov
Mass arrests in Russia for peaceful protest against political repression & Putin’s constitutional coup
16.03.2020
Roskomnadzor, Russia’s effective censor, has blocked the website of a civic campaign against the proposed amendments to Russia’s constitution which will enable Vladimir Putin to be ‘President’ until 2036
Viktor Shur: 6 years in Russian captivity for a photo of cows in a disused aerodrome
11.03.2020
Viktor Shur turned 63 on 10 March, his sixth birthday in Russian imprisonment. Shur is one of the oldest of the Kremlin’s political prisoners, held in conditions that are gruelling for men decades younger
Russia’s oldest Ukrainian hostage gets 12-year sentence for “making Ukraine his priority”
28.02.2020
72-year-old Volodymyr Morgunov is probably Russia’s oldest Ukrainian political prisoner, with his horrifically long 12-year sentence seemingly linked with his handing information to Ukraine that Russia has no good reason to keep secret
Ukrainian political prisoner Vyhivsky imprisoned longer in Russia than his grandfather was under Stalin
21.02.2020
Valentin Vyhivsky’s grandfather, Stepan, was released from the GULAG as part of a mass release of political prisoners after Stalin’s death. His grandson has now been held longer by the Putin regime
Russian court passes huge sentences for involvement in non-existent “Network”
10.02.2020
In a case frighteningly reminiscent of Stalin’s Terror, 7 young men have received sentences from 6 to 18 years for supposed involvement in a ’Network’ ("Сеть") that almost certainly never existed.
Historian Yury Dmitriev imprisoned in Russia for insisting on Memory of the Soviet Terror and Sandarmokh
29.01.2020
Russian historian Yury Dmitriev turned 64 on 28 January 2020, his third birthday imprisoned in Russia on charges that bear no scrutiny, and that clearly coincided with the beginning of a campaign to rewrite the history of one of the darkest pages of the Soviet Terror – the mass killing by quota of Russians, Ukrainians and other prisoners at Sandarmokh
Russian defender of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages jailed on charges of ’justifying terrorism’
22.01.2020
Darya Polyudova, a 30-year-old Russian left-wing activist who has tirelessly spoken out against Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and political persecution of Ukrainians, has been arrested and is facing a long sentence
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