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Telling the truth about Stalin and the Great Terror gets historians arrested in Russia
29.01.2019
Although Yuri Dmitriev and Sergei Koltyrin are purportedly facing ‘non-political’ charges, it was no accident that, after Koltyrin’s arrest, a public discussion on the subject both men were involved in, was cancelled. Documenting the crimes and the perpetrators of Stalin’s Terror has become dangerous in Putin’s Russia .
‘Open Russia’ activist could face 6-year sentence in first criminal prosecution for membership of ‘undesirable NGO’
23.01.2019
Although the arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko appears part of a general attack on Mikhail Khodorkovsy’s Open Russia NGO, it presents a dangerous precedent with ramifications for other NGOs defending human rights in Russia and occupied Crimea
Abducted Ukrainian hostage was likely tricked by Russian FSB pretending to be his Internet ‘girlfriend’
22.01.2019
Pavlo Hryb was just 19 when he was abducted by the FSB from Belarus after going there, he thought, to meet a young woman he had met, and fallen in love with, on the Internet.
Putin’s billionaire crony under sanctions for Crimea gets huge grant ‘to fight corruption’
14.01.2019
A business owned by Russian oligarch Arkadiy Rotenberg has ‘won a tender’ worth 46 million roubles for holding ‘anti-corruption measures’ in 20 regions of Russia
Russia bulldozes vast amounts of food while tens of millions live below the poverty line
09.01.2019
It is three and a half years since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of food products ‘smuggled’ into Russia despite Moscow’s ban on such imports in retaliation for western sanctions. Despite widespread outrage over the move when tens of millions are living below the poverty line, the barbaric destruction has continued unabated. .
Ukrainian political prisoner jailed for fictitious ‘attack on Crimea’ disappears in Russia
08.01.2019
It is three weeks since Yevhen Panov’s family received any information about the recognized political prisoner’s whereabouts
Russia has been taking Ukrainians hostage since 2014. Now they’ve seized an American
04.01.2019
Little is known about the arrest in Moscow of US citizen Paul Whelan. Enough, however, to see disturbing similarities with Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko in 2016
Unending solitary confinement for Ukrainian hostage seized in Crimea & tortured in Russia
03.01.2019
Ukrainian political prisoner Valentin Vyhivsky has been held in a Russian punishment cell for the last 10 months in appalling conditions and without any telephone contact with his family
Kremlin’s Ukrainian political prisoners ordered to pay a million in ‘compensation’ for invented crimes
31.12.2018
This is just the latest grotesque twist to what has been called Russia’s “most monstrously falsified trial of Ukrainians”. It comes at a time when concerns about Klykh’s mental health after the torture he endured are compounded by worries that he may be suffering from cancer.
Ukrainian lawyer who went to Russia to get medicine for his child sentenced to 8 years for ‘spying’
28.12.2018
A court in Nizhny Novgorod has sentenced Ihor Kiyashko to eight years’ maximum security imprisonment for supposed ‘spying’ and military contraband, all allegedly for Ukraine’s Security Service.
Court in Russia allows FSB Chief to whitewash Stalin’s Terror
28.12.2018
A Russian court has rejected a suit brought against Alexander Bortnikov over his claim, as Head of Russia’s FSB [security service], that mass executions during Stalin’s Terror were “local excesses”.
Critic of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine gets 3.5 year jail sentence
27.12.2018
A court in Moscow has sentenced 37-year-old Denis Bakholdin to three and a half years’ imprisonment for allegedly belonging to the legal Ukrainian organization Right Sector while in Ukraine. The prosecution had claimed that Bakholdin had gone to Ukraine to take part in the war in Donbas “to harm the interests of the Russian Federation”.
Russian Ombudsperson claims “public demand” for law jailing for ‘disrespect of authorities’ on Internet
26.12.2018
At least one of the recent legislative initiatives, which could jail for expressing ‘open disrespect of the authorities’ on the Internet, has received public approval from Putin and been described as in response to ‘public demand’ by Russia’s Human Rights Ombudsperson
Doctor warns Russia is placing abducted Ukrainian student’s life in immediate danger
24.12.2018
The doctor who has treated Pavlo Hryb since childhood warns that his condition is worsening and there is a real danger to his life in Russian captivity
Russian state TV caught using fake ‘disillusioned Ukrainian Maidan activist’
11.12.2018
Russia’s Pyervy Kanal has been caught using a Belarusian fake for a propaganda program aimed at proving that Euromaidan brought only hardship and suffering to Ukraine, and that Kyiv is trying to attribute its problems to “Russia’s mythical aggression”.
Tortured and jailed for 10 years as Kremlin’s revenge for Euromaidan in Ukraine
06.12.2018
The Euromaidan protests that overthrew Viktor Yanukovych’s regime are known as Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity. Except in Russia, whose leaders are still fuming at Ukrainians’ refusal to accept a Moscow-controlled puppet, and venting spleen by imprisoning Maidan activists
77-year-old Russian human rights defender jailed for Facebook repost in support of political prisoners
06.12.2018
Lev Ponomaryov has been jailed for 25 days for reposting a message about a protest in support of young political prisoners whom Russia is claiming were members of ‘extremist groups’
Russia sentences Ukrainian soldier to 4 years for political engagement in Ukraine
05.12.2018
In court, Oleksandr Shumkov noted that by bringing criminal charges based on the assertion that such activities “threatened Russia’s interests”, “the Russian Federation is acknowledging its presence on Ukrainian territory
Russia imprisons wheelchair-bound man with severe muscular dystrophy on ‘terrorism’ charges
04.12.2018
46-year-old Amir Gilyazov has suffered from a debilitating form of muscular dystrophy since childhood, and by now cannot get from his bed to the wheelchair or eat without assistance. This did not stop the FSB from bursting into his home on 23 October and arresting him on charges almost certainly linked solely with a video about the release of a political prisoner posted seven years ago on YouTube
Russia uses fake charges for “slow death” sentence against human rights activist Sergei Mokhnatkin
30.11.2018
Russia has brought grotesque new criminal charges against Russian rights activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, just three days before the 64-year-old was due to be released after serving the latest of several politically-motivated sentences
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