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Kremlin celebrates as Trump administration cuts key source of information about Russia’s crimes in occupied Ukraine

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

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Russian neo-Nazi mercenary sentenced to life in Finland for war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky / Voislav Torden, co-founder of the notorious Rusich far-right mercenary group, claimed to have never committed the war crimes about which he and fellow neo+Nazi Alexei Milchakov very publicly boasted

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Abducted Crimean Tatar political prisoner dies in Russian captivity

Russia bears full responsibility for the death in its custody of 60-year-old Rustem Viratti, who should never have been held prisoner.

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Forced 'to wake up a foreign citizen in her own country’. Kateryna Korovina sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russia’s occupation

Russia’s information blockade in occupied Ukraine makes it chillingly difficult to know how many victims are even referred to, but this latest sentence was for donations worth less than 11 euros

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Crimean sentenced to 24 years for supposed assassination attempt on notorious player in Russia's war against Ukraine

Little is known about 47-year-old Petro Zhytsky, however the speed of the FSB arrest and the claims of 'irrefutable evidence' based on his 'confession' while held incommunicado are disturbingly familiar

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Unending punitive psychiatry against tortured Crimean Tatar human rights activist

Yunus Masharipov was almost certainly targeted and tortured back in 2018 by Russia’s FSB for his human rights monitoring in occupied Yalta. His unwavering demand for justice has resulted in indefinite imprisonment in a ‘psychiatric hospital’

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Young Ukrainian sentenced to 10 years in Russian-occupied Luhansk oblast for supporting Ukraine’s defenders

Russia nay well be creating bank accounts to catch patriotic Ukrainians on occupied territory and then fabricate surreal charges

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Death sentence and persecution of Crimean Tatar family in Russia’s war against Crimean Solidarity

Russia’s persecution of four members of one family, as well as of a gravely ill civic journalist is chillingly reminiscent of the methods of terror use by Stalin’s regime against the three brothers’ great-grandfather

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Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna died after savage torture and extreme emaciation in Russian captivity

The 27-year-old journalist, who lived for her work, had travelled to occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast in order to find out about Russia’s torture prisons on occupied territory

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Russia destroys irreplaceable fresco in ongoing destruction of 16th century Crimean Tatar Khan’s Palace

Russia has been systematically, perhaps deliberately, destroying a monument which, before Russia’s invasion of Crimea, was on UNESCO’s list of potential World Heritage sites

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Fake Russian ‘court’ sentences abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 15 years on 'sabotage' charges

56-year-old Natalia Shulha has been held incommunicado for eight months, with the only 'videoed evidence' obviously faked and probably obtained under duress, if not physical torture

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Russia concocts ‘treason’ charges eight months after abducting young Crimean woman

The only likely reason for the cruel lies to Lera Dzhemilova's family and months held incommunicado is that the FSB were using torture, threats or other illegal pressure to extract a 'confession'