Court quashes 13-year sentence, orders retrial of Brazilian for fighting with Russian-backed Donbas militants
The Kyiv Court of Appeal has revoked the conviction of Rafael Lusvarghi , a Brazilian national who played an active role in the Kremlin-backed fighting against Ukrainian soldiers in Donbas …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Detention of Kirill Serebrennikov is part of a campaign to stifle artistic freedom in Russia
PEN America has issued a statement condemning the arrest on August 22 of Russian theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov and calls it part of a concerted campaign to silence dissenting voices in the arts in Russia …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
August 22nd, 2017
CHINA Prominent Chinese Rights Activist Jiang Tianyong “Confesses” To Inciting Subversion Of State Power Catherine Lai, Hong Kong Free Press A prominent rights defence figure in China, Jiang Tianyong previously worked on numerous high-profile cases, including defending activist Cheng Guangcheng and lawyer Gao Zhisheng before he was disbarred in...
Putin’s Counterrevolution
By Sergey AleksashenkoHow Putin’s autocracy undercut Russia’s economy and chances for democracy During his nearly twenty years at the center of Russian political power, Vladimir Putin has transformed the vast country in many ways, not all of them for the better. The near-chaos of the early post-Soviet years has been replaced by an...
Kiev Arbitration Days to take place in November 2017
См. текст по-русски ниже. International Conference “KIEV ARBITRATION DAYS 2017: Think Big!” will take place on 3 November 2017 in Radisson Blu Hotel (22, Yaroslaviv Val str.), Kyiv, Ukraine. The conference is conducted under the auspices of the Ukrainian Bar Association. CIS Arbitration Forum is an information partner of the event. The KAD 2017...
FTAC: Middle East Conflict – Moscow’s Project – Abbas’s End
Abba — Arafat’s known and others may be suspect — bend to Moscow (the KGB record never goes away), and as Moscow has nowhere to go that wouldn’t be trapped in a century-and-one-half old imperial time bubble, neither has Abbas, who has not been able to do more for the Palestinians than enrich his own network through corruption....
Horrifically tortured and murdered, or imprisoned in Crimea and Donbas for the Ukrainian Flag
Ukraine marked National Flag Day on August 23, remembering Volodymyr Rybak who was tortured and murdered for his defence of the Flag, and with at least three Ukrainians imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea or by the Russian-backed militants in Donbas for the same reason …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Mask show at the Odesa SIZO
This unlawful practice is still used and remains unpunished, despite the declared penitentiary reform. Now this beating in the Odesa SIZO has already been muffled in the long familiar fashion …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Relations with Russia in the mirror of Germany’s election campaign
Russia / Europe Germany’s election campaign has reached fever pitch; 62 million citizens are set to elect members of the new Bundestag in late September. Foreign policy has traditionally been an uncomfortable topic for candidates and spin doctors: Germans show great interest in global events, which makes it difficult to avoid commenting on...
Trump’s New Strategy for Afghanistan Is Neither New, nor a Strategy, nor Trump’s
For some time it has been clear that the White House of President Donald Trump was convulsed with a struggle among various court factions vying for the Emperor’s ear. Crudely oversimplified, these are variously described as:1. The military “Junta” (Generals McMaster, National Security Council; Mattis, Pentagon; and Kelly, White...
