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John Cole, US deputy special representative for Ukraine, shaking hands with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting in Minsk.

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Latest news Ukraine

US lifts sanctions on Belarusian airline in exchange for prisoner releases, wants to “normalize relations”

The move marks a rare diplomatic breakthrough with Russian-allied Belarus, which has long faced Western sanctions over human rights abuses.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Latest news Ukraine

Inside occupied Crimea: torture, disappearances, and total suppression of dissent

A Freedom House report sheds light on systematic abuses in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Georgia quits PACE over calls for new elections and political prisoner release

Georgia's pro-Russian ruling party announced it is suspending participation in the Assembly.

byYuri Zoria

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Opinion

Putin’s war machine in Ukraine feeds on unpunished Soviet crimes

As Russia revives unpunished Soviet terror tactics, a dissident leader cautions the West: failing to act in Ukraine risks repeating the fatal mistake of appeasement.

byMyroslav Marynovych

Crimean Tatars activist human rights violation torture

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Latest news Ukraine

Over 1,126 cases filed in Crimea for ‘discrediting’ Russian army: repression deepens

Russian occupation authorities in Crimea have detained 218 people (including 132 Crimean Tatars), escalated militarization with strategic deployments, all amidst an ongoing ecological disaster from a recent oil spill.

byOrysia Hrudka

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15 Russians raped her for false confession – Ukrainian mother gets 18-year sentence after years of torture in secret Russian prison

A Russian kangaroo court against Ukrainians inadvertently revealed the chilling torture practices at the Izolyatsia "death factory” treated as “entertainment” by her captors.

byOrysia Hrudka

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He fought Putin’s prisons for 10 years – then spent 913 days in one

From defending rights to defending Ukraine, rights advocate Maksym Butkevych confronted his harshest test: surviving 913 days in Russian prisons he once fought from the outside.

byOrysia Hrudka

American political prisoners, including Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, and Alsu Kurmasheva returned to the US/ Navalny

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International

Germany releases Russian hitman, enabling largest post-Cold War prisoner exchange

Germany's decision to release Vadim Krasikov, a Russian assassin convicted of a Chechen rebel murder in Berlin, proved crucial and ordered by Putin himself in facilitating a major West-Russia prisoner exchange, initially aimed at freeing Aleksei Navalny, but instead returning other high-profile political prisoners and dissidents in exchange for spies and cybercriminals.

byVira Kravchuk

Ukrainian citizen, Serhii Karmazin sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian court sentences Ukrainian man to 25 years in prison for alleged railway sabotage

Apart from railway sabotage, the Russian Military Court also charged Serhii Karmazin with espionage, training in sabotage and terrorist activities, and preparation for a terrorist act, while denying him access to a human rights lawyer during the investigation.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian religious scholar who survived Russian captivity dies at the age of 69

In Kyiv, people said goodbye to Ukrainian scientist and religious scholar Ihor Kozlovsky, who died on 6 September 2023. The funeral and memorial services were held in St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery on 9 September 2023.

byBohdan Ben

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Latest news Ukraine

Political prisoner returns home after 7 years

Political prisoner Arsen Dzhepparov has returned home today after being 7 years in Russia’s prison. His daughter Evelina…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Political prisoners

How Russia fabricated the case against Crimean Tatar leader Dzhelyal

On 18 February at 10 am, the Russia-controlled Supreme Court of Crimea heard a criminal case against Nariman…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Russia sentences RFE/RL freelancer to six years in first case of torture of professional journalist in Crimea

On 9 March, Vladyslav Yesypenko, a RFE/RL journalist who reported on developments in Crimea, filmed a flower-laying ceremony…

byYuliia Rudenko

11 minute read

Political prisoners

How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today

12 January is the Day of the Ukrainian political prisoner, established to honor people who were imprisoned on…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

3 minute read

Political prisoners

Drawing the life he is not living: prison art by Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin showcased in Berlin | Photos

Take a peek at exclusive photos from Atelier Soldina, an exposition space in Berlin, which saw the opening…

byYuliia Rudenko

10 minute read

Daily review

Daily review: Biden and Putin talk (again), Germany opposes Russia’s return to G7, Ukraine imposes sanctions for Crimean bridge

Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched four attacks on Ukrainian positions. In one…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Political prisoners

This January, send a letter to a Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin

Most of us will spend the cozy winter holidays with our family and good food. But there are…

byAlya Shandra

4 minute read

65-year-old Russian historian of Stalin’s terror has prison sentence extended to 15 years

On 27 December, judge Yekaterina Khomyakova Petrozavodsk City Court (Karelia, Russia) extended Yury Dmitriev‘s 13-year prison sentence by…

byYuliia Rudenko

10 minute read

War in Donbas

“F*cking execute her!” Torture, forced labor, one bottle of water a day: how a Ukrainian woman hostage survived the prisons of Russia-occupied Donbas

“F*cking execute her!” On 19 March 2018, Maryna Chuikova was detained at the Maiorsk checkpoint when going from…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Political prisoners

Ukrainian political prisoner, father of four who resisted Crimean occupation starts a hunger strike in Russian prison

What do we know about Ivan Yatskin? On 6 December, Nikolai Polozov, the lawyer of Ukrainian political prisoner…

byYuliia Rudenko

Political prisoners

US lifts sanctions on Belarusian airline in exchange for prisoner releases, wants to “normalize relations”

Inside occupied Crimea: torture, disappearances, and total suppression of dissent

Georgia quits PACE over calls for new elections and political prisoner release

Putin’s war machine in Ukraine feeds on unpunished Soviet crimes

Over 1,126 cases filed in Crimea for ‘discrediting’ Russian army: repression deepens

15 Russians raped her for false confession – Ukrainian mother gets 18-year sentence after years of torture in secret Russian prison

He fought Putin’s prisons for 10 years – then spent 913 days in one

Germany releases Russian hitman, enabling largest post-Cold War prisoner exchange

Russian court sentences Ukrainian man to 25 years in prison for alleged railway sabotage

Ukrainian religious scholar who survived Russian captivity dies at the age of 69

Political prisoner returns home after 7 years

How Russia fabricated the case against Crimean Tatar leader Dzhelyal

Russia sentences RFE/RL freelancer to six years in first case of torture of professional journalist in Crimea

How Russian imperialism jailed Ukrainian dissidents 50 years ago and today

Drawing the life he is not living: prison art by Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin showcased in Berlin | Photos

Daily review: Biden and Putin talk (again), Germany opposes Russia’s return to G7, Ukraine imposes sanctions for Crimean bridge

This January, send a letter to a Ukrainian political prisoner of the Kremlin

65-year-old Russian historian of Stalin’s terror has prison sentence extended to 15 years

“F*cking execute her!” Torture, forced labor, one bottle of water a day: how a Ukrainian woman hostage survived the prisons of Russia-occupied Donbas

Ukrainian political prisoner, father of four who resisted Crimean occupation starts a hunger strike in Russian prison

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