Olesya Yaremchuk

In political prisoner cases, Russian security services often invent and fabricate “evidence” to create a realistic narrative. This time, they lucked out with a plot, as the “Sevastopol saboteurs” case involved three friends with shared histories

The researcher discusses the significance of the Ukrainian voice in the world and the newly established Institute for Documentation and Interaction in Lviv

On October 10, 2017, as he returned home, Asanov leaned close to his four-year-old daughter, Safiye, inhaling the familiar scent of her dark hair. He whispered, “I feel for those who have been deprived of their freedom. I want every prisoner to embrace their children and feel their scent as soon as possible”

Late at night on September 4, 2021, the Federal Security Service (FSB) officers burst into the Akhtem family’s apartment. It was not even midnight, and Akhtem and his wife had just gone to bed. The silence was shattered by screams and footsteps as armed men in balaclavas entered the room—more than ten of them

Russians not only physically destroyed Crimean Tatars but also erased any mention of this indigenous people of Crimea. They continued what had started during the time of the Russian Empire

A journalist on balancing between two countries and the fear of remaining unheard