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Interviews — 17 OctoberTymur Ibrahimov: “I Will Not Stray From My Path.”
Even in prison, Ibrahimov seeks ways to find strength and support himself. The first is reading the Qur’an. He has the same one as Dilyara at their home in Bakhchysarai, and reading it is the couple’s way to stay connected
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Interviews — 24 JuneAsan Akhtem: I Want to Breathe
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
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Interviews — 7 JuneIryna Danylovych: A Person Who Does Not Tolerate Lies
She was kidnapped at a bus stop in Koktebel and sentenced to almost seven years in prison. This is the story of a citizen journalist whose case contains zero details about explosive devices allegedly found in her eyeglass case—and a whole volume of references to her interviews in the media
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Interviews — 15 MayServer Mustafayev: “The Smell of Freedom Is Close.”
During the first year after Mustafayev’s arrest, his sons played a game of “house search.” They built a prison out of colorful building blocks and “freed” their father
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Opinion — 14 MayJustice for Svitlana
The head of the Center for Civil Liberties on justice, which should not depend on the strength of the Russian regime
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Interviews — 11 AprilVladyslav Yesypenko: To hold your little hands in mine
The occupation of Crimea unfolded before Yesypenko’s eyes. He filmed extensively on his phone: blocked Ukrainian military bases in Crimea, strikes, land grabs by the Russian army, and polling stations during the ‘referendum’
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Opinion — 27 FebruaryThat’s why literature exists
A literary scholar — on the Ukrainian war poetry and how literature can help live through the reality of the present
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Opinion — 20 DecemberThis Is Not a Crime Novel
A historian’s view on Russia’s war in Ukraine and the countless voices of Ukrainians who are fighting to make Europe ‘whole and safe’.