20 July 2025 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda My friend N. moved to Crimea. I condemned him with all the severity of intransigent liberalism: you’re condoning the annexation, you’re…
9 June 2025 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook The outrage of the emigre pen-pushers knows no bounds. How dare the European Parliament devote so much attention to Navalnaya, Yashin, and…
Memorial has reported that Liudmila Kolesnikova, who has joint Ukrainian and Russian citizenship, has been held in detention since July 2024 and is being prosecuted on a spurious charge of…
On 20 July 2020, a Russian-controlled court in Crimea sentenced Nariman Mezhmedinov, who has dual Russian and Ukrainian citizenship, to serve eight years in a strict regime penal colony, with…
24 March 2025 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook I couldn’t resist! Exactly 11 years ago, on March 24, 2014, I wrote this in the aftermath of Crimea’s annexation. Everything was…
On 24 March 2021, Sevastopol city court in occupied Crimea convicted Halyna Dovhopola of treason (Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code) and sentenced her to 12 years' imprisonment in…
Nariman Dzhelyal is a journalist and Crimean Tatar activist who, until the organisation was banned as 'extremist', was first deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (an…
18 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory For the anniversary on 18 May, Aleksandr Murtazaev, a Memorial volunteer, talks about the deportation of Crimean Tatars and his own…
17 February 2023 Irina Danilovich was sentenced to seven years in a Russian penal colony on charges of possessing explosives Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial,’ an independent human…
10 February 2023 Ruslan Abdurakhmanov was sentenced to five years in a strict regime penal colony for involvement in the Chelebidzhikhan Volunteer Battalion. Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial,’…
