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Ukraine dissolves notorious Kyiv court recently implicated in Russia’s attempt to reinstall Yanukovych

The dissolution comes less than a month after a shocking report suggesting that judges of the court were implicated in Russia’s plans to conquer Ukraine and reinstall Viktor Yanukovych

No end to Russia’s brutal reprisals against imprisoned 66-year-old historian of the Soviet Terror

Yury Dmitriev, world-renowned Russian historian, head of the Karelia branch of the Memorial Society and political prisoner, is spending his fourth term in a punishment cell in the space of just two months

‘Stand up for your convictions, even if you stand alone!’ Anti-war activities in Russia, 3-9 October

After Monday 3 October, as the reality of partial mobilisation and the reaction of the authorities sank in, protests in Russia entered another quiet phase. A great many women who went out on the streets to protest were still being held in police stations across the country and in its detention centres.

‘Mogilisation’. Anti-war activities in Russia, 26 September to 1 October

Protests have been growing against the drafting of tens of thousands of men. The very term “mobilisation” was reworked to incorporate the Russian word for a grave ‘mogila’ (могила): substituting ‘g’ for ‘b’ transformed the partial ‘draft’ into a mass burial movement (“mogilisation”).

Hours after Memorial receives Nobel Peace Prize, Russia seizes its property for supposed ‘destructive activities’

Memorial’s so-called ‘destructive activities’ are precisely those for which it received the Nobel Peace Prize, and include its open opposition to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

From a Zwastika to "No to the War". Anti-war activities in Russia, 9-18 September

A large letter “Z”, a Zwastika as it’s now called, was painted on a hillside opposite Divnigorsk (Krasnoyarsk Region). Beneath the letter, stones were assembled to spell the town’s name. A protestor clambered up the hillside, took one bar off the Z and rearranged the stones to read “No to the War”.

Look at this instead. Anti-war activities in Russia, 2-11 September 2022

A Russian artist Alevtina Yelsukova has sewn a quilt resembling the TV signal screen and sold it at auction. The money will be used to buy blankets for Ukrainian refugees. This quilt could cover the largest TV screen and stop anyone watching it again

There’s always a choice. Anti-war activities in Russia, 23-27 August

Russia today is a dictatorial regime with strict censorship. Yet as a protestor from a small village in Central Russia wrote of recent attempts to bribe men into joining the army, “You can’t cure death with money. There’s always a choice”.

Valentin Vyhivsky: Eight years of torture in Russian captivity for being Ukrainian

It is exactly eight years since Russia’s FSB abducted Valentin Vyhivsky from occupied Crimea and took him to Moscow, where he was held incommunicado for around eight months and savagely tortured

13-year sentence against Belarusian investigative journalist who helped expose crimes against Ukraine

Denis Ivashin played an important role in exposing the Russian fighters who first took part in Russia’s invasion of Crimea and Donbas and were later deployed to prop up the regime of Aleksander Lukashenka

Fascism is here in Russia. Anti-war activities in Russia, 15-22 August

New investigations into acts “discrediting” the Russian army were opened in Elista (Kalmykia, South Russia), in Buinaksk (Dagestan) and Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, and in Petrozavodsk (Karelia), St Petersburg and Krasnodar (South Russia).

Those who unleashed this war will not go to Heaven. Anti-War activities In Russia, 7-14 August 2022

St Petersburg priest Father Ioann Kurmoyarov has been held in custody since 9 June. “The blessed peace-makers will end up in Heaven,” he said. “you understand what I’m saying? The peace-makers. Those who unleashed this aggression will not be going there.”

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