Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)
1 year on Sentsov & Kolchenko remain jailed & isolated, their persecutors untouched
Civic activists have marked the first anniversary of the sentences passed on Crimean filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko by handing down their own verdicts on the Kremlin and the investigators, prosecutors and judges directly implicated in that show trial. Real liability, however, remains largely theoretical …read...
Putin Appoints Apologist for Stalin as Russian Education Minister
Olga Vasilyeva, the new arch-conservative Russian Minister of Education is known for her highly specific position on bloody dictator Joseph Stalin and for remarks implying that the figures given for victims of Stalin’s Terror are exaggerated …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Raising the Ukrainian Flag Volodymyr Rybak and Many Others Died For
The 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence would have been a very special date under any circumstances. After Maidan and then Russia’s invasion, that anniversary and the Day of the Ukrainian Flag have become imbued with acute poignancy …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Oleg Sentsov: I would like to be a nail in the tyrant’s coffin. This nail will not bend.
Imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has written a powerful letter from Russian captivity in which he rejects attempts to free him and others at any price, saying instead to “use us as a weapon” …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russian activist persecuted for ‘Putin Mask’ seeks political asylum in Ukraine
Roman Roslovtsev, the courageous Moscow activist challenging Russia’s draconian anti-protest legislation has had enough, and is planning to apply for political asylum in Ukraine. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
The West Has a Ukraine Challenge, and It’s Not Going Away
The Kremlin has found that Ukraine is too big to swallow. Nonetheless, despite Russia’s international isolation, sanctions against it, decline in oil prices, and subsequent recession, the Kremlin has not changed its Ukraine agenda …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Grave Fears for Crimean Tatar leader in Psychiatric Clinic for Saying Russia must Leave Crimea
There has been a sharp deterioration in the health of 59-year-old Ilmi Umerov who has been forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic in Russian-occupied Crimea despite the lack of any grounds for the criminal charges Russia has brought against him, or for the supposed ‘psychiatric assessment’. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
Deutsche Welle is continuing to mislead the public about Russia’s Crimea land-grab
Internationally recognized borders are not re-drawn by armed annexations. This is certainly understood by Germany’s leaders and it is baffling that Deutsche Welle is continuing to present a different picture …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Russia denies alleged ‘Ukrainian Crimea saboteur’ access to a lawyer
With nothing to confirm Russia’s claims of Ukrainian ‘attacks’ in Russian-occupied Crimea except televised ‘confessions’, it is highly suspicious that the FSB are trying to prevent Yevhen Panov from seeing a proper lawyer. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Paul Manafort Is the Tip of the Iceberg
Trump’s campaign chairman is under the microscope for his dealings in Ukraine, but he is part of a much larger consulting industry that serves the interests of autocrats. …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
