Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
Not in Our Name: Journalist NGOs Should Condemn Propagandist Graham Phillips’ Torture Stunt
At a human level, it is impossible to understand somebody accosting a person maimed and blinded and telling him that he’s useless, a zombie whom nobody needs. When that individual, Briton Graham Phillips, claims to be acting as a ‘journalist’, such behaviour needs a clear response from the journalist community. …read more...
Ukrainian citizens are now a group at risk in Russian-occupied Crimea
Gury Kornilyev, a young botanist from Yalta, recently lost his job after two years of harassment over his rejection of Russian citizenship. He knows of two other colleagues who were dismissed or demoted for their pro-Ukrainian position, and they are only some of the many Ukrainian nationals who are now a group at risk in occupied Crimea...
Crimean activist fined for ‘extremist post’ 4 YEARS before Russian annexation
A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has fined Alexei Shestakovych 1,000 roubles for a video he reposted 4 years before Russia invaded and occupied Crimea. On the same day, another court rejected his appeal against a 20-thousand rouble fine for a totally peaceful picket in defence of Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and other political prisoners...
KGB 2.0? Report says Kremlin plan afoot for major Security-Service Shakeup
Russia plans to create a super security agency called the Ministry of State Security (MGB), the name once given to Josef Stalin’s Soviet spy apparatus before it was renamed the KGB after his death, Kommersant newspaper reports. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Separatists of the world unite in Moscow while Russia steps up repression of Crimean Tatars
The Kremlin is funding a second separatist jamboree in Moscow on Sept 25. The event which purports to unite “parties and movements advocating for self-determination”, and which Russian embassies tout as in defence of minorities, will be held 4 days before the Supreme Court appeal against Russia’s criminalization of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis,...
Crimean Tatars boycott Russia’s illegitimate elections in occupied Crimea
Most Crimean Tatars appear to have boycotted the elections which Russia illegally held in occupied Crimea. How many other Ukrainians also refused to take part is as yet unclear, but it seems likely that despite threats and coercion, the turnout was low. Judging by previous experience since Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the boycott could lead...
What Breaking News? Mass Vote Rigging As Expected in Russian Parliamentary Elections
The ‘breaking news’ headlines on the BBC, Sky News and others would have been comical, were they not so misleading. These were not ‘elections’ which President Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party was ever going to lose, and if you want even exit polls to be credible, you don’t effectively outlaw the Levada Centre,...
Maimed Ukrainian Hostage Finally Exchanged by Kremlin-Backed Militants
After several promised exchanges fell through, Volodymyr Zhemchugov, who has been held for almost a year, blinded, maimed and in a terrible state, has finally been released as part of an exchange of two hostages for four supporters of the Donbas militants held by Ukraine’s SBU …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Putin & Stalin both invaded to ‘protect ethnic minorities’
It is 77 years since the Soviet Union invaded what was then Poland, and two and a half years since Russian troops seized control of Ukrainian Crimea. Both Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and Russian President Vladimir Putin presented their invasions as ‘protecting ethnic minorities’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Why the West Ignores Russia’s Wars
While hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in major cities across Western Europe and the United States to protest the American invasion of Iraq and, more recently, the invasion by America’s ally Israel of the Gaza Strip in 2014, Russia’s wars of choice in Syria and Ukraine have failed to excite a single public...
