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13 January, 2020Society
The high cost of exchange
What can Ukraine offer for the release of the remaining prisoners
29 December, 2019Breaking news
Ukraine and pro-Russians expected to swap prisoners
Ukraine president says exchange should take place on Sunday but details of the planned swap are scarce
27 October, 2019Politics
A strategy for political hostages
What was overlooked during the return of Ukraine’s kidnapped sailors and political hostages from Russia
26 October, 2019Politics
Exchange rate
About Ukraine’s prisoners who left jail early and ended up in Moscow
9 September, 2019Politics
Russia’s word
How the Russian-Ukrainian exchange of prisoners was in question
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 July, 2019Breaking news
Ukraine reaches agreement on return of captured sailors from Russia
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova told Hromadske media outlet in the town of Shchastia during the transfer of Ukrainian prisoners from the occupied Luhansk region
19 July, 2019Breaking news
U.S. legislators draft sanctions on 24 FSB operatives over 24 Ukrainian POW sailors
The U.S. "continues to strongly condemn Russia's dangerous naval assault on the Ukrainian Navy and the illegal detainment 24 Ukrainian sailors," legislators say
28 June, 2019Breaking news
Four Ukrainian prisoners released by Russia-backed separatists arrive in Minsk
Russia-backed separatists from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region have released four Ukrainian citizens, who have been flown to the Belarusian capital, Minsk
2 June, 2019Breaking news
Hundreds march in Kyiv for release of over 200 Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia
Several hundred people marched on June 1 in downtown Kyiv to draw attention to more than 200 Ukrainians who have been illegally imprisoned in Russia, Russian-occupied Crimea and Russian-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
26 March, 2019Breaking news
Ukrainian political prisoner Balukh tried in Crimea delivered to Russia's Tver
His relocation violates the Geneva Convention
15 March, 2019Breaking news
EU again demands Russia free Ukrainian POW sailors
The EU demands that Russia release Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) sailors who were attacked and captured in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018, according to a press release prepared in connection with the imposition of sanctions against eight Russians because of these events
27 January, 2019Breaking news
Crimean court refuses to parole Ukrainian activist
Russia-occupied Crimea’s Kerchensky city court during its hearing refused to release Volodymyr Balukh on parole
11 January, 2019Breaking news
Russia may free jailed Ukrainian sailors in swap deal
Russia may hand over 24 Ukrainian navy sailors seized off the coast of Crimea as part of a prisoner swap deal with Ukraine later this year, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper cited a highly-placed Russian diplomatic source
7 January, 2019Breaking news
Some 37 people arrested for political reasons in occupied Crimea in 2018
Among them are social activists and Ukrainian sailors, prisoners of war
6 January, 2019Society
POWs in a hybrid war
How can Ukraine protect the seamen who were taken prisoner by Russia?
21 December, 2018Breaking news
Wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia pretrial facility recovering
Lawyers visiting wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war, seamen Andriy Eider and Andriy Artemenko, in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina facility
17 December, 2018Politics
Voices crying in the wilderness
The meaning of the Sakharov Prize for Oleh Sentsov
5 December, 2018Breaking news
Ukraine offers to swap captured Ukrainians for Russian prisoners by year-end
However, according to Marchuk, the Russian side does not accept such offers
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
23 January, 2018Society
Kremlin Hostages: The key is not with Putin
For Ukrainians incarcerated in the occupied territories and in the Russian Federation itself, things could get much worse in 2018. Only serious international pressure is likely to make Moscow release these political prisoners
10 July, 2017Society
So many suspects, so little evidence
On June 14, it was a year since the last exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia took place. Nothing has happened in all that time to make a swap more likely
31 January, 2017Society
Returning the hostages
Freeing the Kremlin's prisoners as our main assignment for the year
19 July, 2016Society
Double imprisonment
Ukrainian prisoners in Crimea are being transferred to Russia, given Russian passports and punished for rejecting them
26 April, 2016Society
"The expectation of death is worse than death itself"
What war captives and kidnapped civilians go through in the occupied territories, and how exchange mechanisms work
26 April, 2016Society
The great persecution
25 Ukrainians are held in captivity by the Russians, accused of committing serious crimes. Yet international rights organizations still have not recognized them as political prisoners
13 August, 2015Society
Hostages of the Kremlin
President Poroshenko says there are 30 Ukrainian citizens currently being illegally held in Russia. Human rights advocates that they know about the situation with 11, most of whom the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has yet to provide with lawyers
16 October, 2014Society
A month in captivity in the “Donetsk People’s Republic”
Ruslan Petrenko (not his real name) from a small town near Donetsk was a pro-Ukrainian activist. This got him in trouble: he was taken hostage by the “DNR” terrorists and spent more than a month in captivity
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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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