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All the materials marked with tag: political prisoner
25 December, 2020Breaking news
Ukrainian political prisoner Shumkov returned to Ukraine
Oleksandr Shumkov will go to Kherson to the military unit, where he served before the detention
27 October, 2019Politics
A strategy for political hostages
What was overlooked during the return of Ukraine’s kidnapped sailors and political hostages from Russia
7 September, 2019Breaking news
What we know about 33 Ukrainian political prisoners that Russia might release
Ukraine and Russia are preparing their first-ever big prisoner exchange since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014
28 July, 2019Politics
Who will free the Kremlin’s prisoners?
How President Zelenskiy’s choice of staff will affect the cause of political prisoners
24 May, 2018Society
Oleh Sentsov’s lawyer: We have seen some reasons for optimism about the ongoing work that might lead to Oleh’s release
On May 16, Ukrainian filmmaker currently jailed in Russia as a political prisoner went on a hunger strike. In a public letter he wrote that he would only stop the strike if all 64 Ukrainian prisoners jailed in Russia for politically-motivated grounds are released
11 April, 2013
Political Prisoners: Big and Small
Ukraine does have political prisoners. This fact is acknowledged by everyone today except for supporters of the Party of Regions, the Communists and the most inveterate ideologues of the "everyone-in-politics-is-bad" position.
3 July, 2012History
Yaromyr Mykytko — Third-generation Political Prisoner
His earliest childhood memory is a long gloomy corridor in a barracks. Yaromyr Mykytko was born on 12 March 1953 in Prokopievsk, Kemerovo Region. When he was three, his family returned to Galicia but his parents kept their Siberia experience to themselves for a long time
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Is it possible to separate Pushkin from Putin?
The culture of 'Muscovite Rus' came to form from two heterogeneous sources. The seed of the religious and artistic culture reached Muscovy from southeastern Europe (Byzantium, the Balkans) through Kyiv. On the other hand, the foundation of the political and legal culture came to Muscovy from 'Ulus Jöchi', better known as the Golden Horde. As a result, the Russian "spiritual culture" took the shape of a familiar European facade, behind which a non-European state infrastructure hid.
7 April, ,
Russia says Kyiv ‘changing mind’ in peace talks as Putin warned against chemical weapons
German chancellor Olaf Scholz says Putin’s comments on US biological weapons seemed like an ‘implicit threat’
23 March, ,
In the hands of criminals, history is a deadly weapon
It is us, Ukrainians, and all the citizens of this country, who must keep studying our own history. To defend our land and our country, we must know it better.
20 March, ,
Survey says 86.6% of Russians support the armed invasion of Russia in other European countries
86.6% of Russians tolerate and support the potential assault on the territory of the European Union, including: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others as evidenced by the results of the sociological survey conducted by “Active Group”
18 March, ,
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