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Stalin Terror echoes in monstrous sentences for totally fictitious ‘Network’ in Putin’s Russia
21.10.2020
Although there is nothing unusual in today’s Russia about political trials on fabricated charges, nor about the use of torture, this case stands out as young left-wing activists received up to 18 years for involvement in a ‘terrorist’ organization that never existed
Belarusian Police Detain More Than 90 As Protests Enter 11th Week
19.10.2020
Belarusian police detained more than 90 people during the latest rally to demand that authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka step down as a political standoff enters its 11th week
New Russian draft bill envisages criminal liability for telling inconvenient truth about the USSR in WWII
15.10.2020
Since one Russian has already faced prosecution for reposting a text rightly stating that the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939, this new law seems set to stifle discussion about the Second World War
Belarus threatens to use lethal force against protesters as pensioners march for freedom
13.10.2020
The timing of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s latest attempt to crush protests against his illegitimate rule in Belarus could not have been more appropriate
“Blame the Russian Federation for my death”. Journalist Iryna Slavina driven to self-immolation
05.10.2020
Iryna Slavina, chief editor of the independent website Koza.Press and target of numerous attempts to silence a courageously outspoken journalist and civic activist, set fire to herself outside the police headquarters in Nizhniy Novgorod on 2 October.
Russian Historian Yuri Dmitriev sentenced to 13 years in revenge for restoring the truth about the Soviet Terror
30.09.2020
This is an effective death sentence for the 64-year-old historian and political prisoner, and one that was passed behind closed doors in the absence of his lawyer and with Dmitriev himself prevented from properly taking part
Voices for Freedom – Show Kremlin hostage Volodymyr Dudka and Russia he’s not forgotten
29.09.2020
We believe, and hope you agree, that our voices should be heard in defence of the victims of persecution, rather than our silence helping the perpetrators
Russia seeks surreal 8-year extension to sentence against abducted Ukrainian political prisoner
23.09.2020
Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Shumkov is due to be released from a Russian prison on 24 December 2020, however the prison administration has asked for him to be placed under ‘administrative surveillance’ for a further eight years
How post-election protests are creating a new Belarus
22.09.2020
When these protests first erupted seven weeks earlier following a flawed presidential election, few expected them to last
Russia sentences 19 men to over 300 years’ imprisonment without any crime
22.09.2020
The ruling is a shocking travesty of justice and one that Ukraine should not ignore, as Russia is staging the same fatally flawed ‘trials’ in occupied Crimea
’We’re Belarusians, Not A Russian Region’: Protests Take Aim At Kremlin
09.09.2020
"No to Kremlin takeover of Belarus!" Belarusian protesters increasingly want the Kremlin to stay out of their affairs.
Lukashenka returns Donbas mercenaries to Russia, others, reportedly, on their way to Belarus
26.08.2020
Russian state television journalists have been sent to fill the propaganda void after Belarusian journalists resigned or went on strike in protest, and there are reports of fighters in Donbas being recruited for work in Belarus as ‘volunteers’
Belarusian museum director who refused to sign false election protocol found dead
19.08.2020
A volunteer search group in Belarus has found the body of 29-year-old Kanstantsin Shyshmakou, the director of a military history museum in Vawkavysk who refused to sign a falsified electoral protocol claiming that Aleksandr Lukashenka had won the presidential elections
Lukashenko regime’s savagery may be backfiring in Belarus
14.08.2020
Belarus is not Ukraine, and any comparison would be foolhardy, however it does seem likely that the shocking savagery that the regime of Alexander Lukashenko has unleashed on peaceful protesters, including many teenagers, has backfired
Belarus initiates ‘mass riot’ criminal charges against detained Ukrainian rights activists
13.08.2020
A Belarusian human rights activist has informed Radio Svoboda that the two Ukrainian rights activists brutally detained on 12 August are to face criminal charges over supposed ‘mass riots’.
Belarusian Opposition Presents Broadest Challenge Yet To Strongman Lukashenka After Disputed Election
12.08.2020
Belarus does indeed appear to be a new country, one in which opposition to the 65-year-old Lukashenka, who has ruled the country since 1994, is broader and more confident than ever before
Belarus: ‘I appeal to all Europe: Please help us, because they’re killing my family’
11.08.2020
The Lukashenko regime is brutally seeking to crush the huge public protest against the rigged elections on 9 August, with the West at present falling very short of threatening real measures in response
Belarus: Peaceful protester killed in violent crackdown after claimed Lukashenko victory
10.08.2020
There were scenes of violence late on Sunday evening from the centre of Minsk, with police and military using rubber bullets, stun grenades, tear gas and water cannons at what appeared to be peaceful protesters
Real prison sentences passed on young Putin critics after FSB provocateur fabricates an ‘extremist group’
07.08.2020
A Russian court has ignored overwhelming evidence that the sole organizer of the so-called ‘Novoye Velichiye’ or ‘New Greatness’ ‘extremist organization’ was an FSB infiltrator and has sentenced three young men to long prison sentences and handed down a further four suspended sentences
Russia uses personal data act to hide perpetrators of the Soviet Terror from historians
06.08.2020
Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has succeeded in blocking access by Memorial Society historians to information identifying eleven Soviet prosecutors who, as members of the notorious NKVD ‘troikas’, took part in ordering executions during the Great Terror of 1937-38
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