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In this week’s bulletin: Ukrainian unions solidarity call/ Scottish unions’ Kharkiv report/ Interview: anti-war voices in Russia/ Russia ‘treason’ and ‘espionage’ cases doubled/ More evidence of Russian killing of civilians/ Persecution of Crimean Tatars/ beatings in captivity
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Face of Resistance: Crimean Tatar Activist Zekirya Muratov (Crimea Platform,October 25th)
Russia sentences youngest abducted journalist to 14 years for Melitopol Telegram channel (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 24th)
Ukrainian abducted, tortured and sentenced to life because Ukraine carried out an attack on Russian invaders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 24th)
Imprisoned Ukrainian marine biologist charged with ‘treason’ for opposing Russia’s plans in Antarctic area (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 23rd)
Russian court orders rearrest and 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Crimean political prisoner (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 22nd)
Occupied territories: ‘ownerless’ homes will go to the Russian state, by law (Meduza, 21 October)
Occupiers Detain Ukrainian Antarctic Scientist Leonid Pshenychnov (Crimea Platform,October 21st)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform,October 21st)
Crimean Tatar Political Prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev Diagnosed with Diabetes and Other Serious Health Conditions (Crimea Platform,October 21st)
Menacing threats against human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva after Russia’s arrests of four Crimean Tatar women (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 20th)
News from the front and ‘peace’ negotiations:
Trump and Putin: from summit to no summit (Meduza, 22 October)
Russian invaders gun down civilians in Pokrovsk, try to kill others in evacuation van (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 21st)
Russian army closing in: the battle for Pokrovsk (Meduza, 20 October)
News from Ukraine:
Russia’s war has transformed Kharkiv’s hardest-hit neighbourhood (Meduza, 24 October)
Social Protection and Housing in Rural Hromadas near the frontline (Cedos, October 17th)
War-related news from Russia :
“We Wanted to Show the Whole Range of Anti-War Resistance in Russia” (Posle, October 22nd)
Journalists and academics swept on to Russia’s ‘extremist’ and ‘terrorist’ list (Meduza, 22 October)
Brainwashing 101: How state propaganda hijacked Russian education (The Insider, October 22nd)
ICE goes after Russian asylum seekers (The Russian Reader, 22 October)
Ribbons of trouble. Criminal charges for teenagers who livestreamed vomiting on war symbol (Mediazona, 21 October)
Prosecutions doubled for ‘treason’ and ‘espionage’ (iStories, 21 October)
Russia passes massive sentences against 15 Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine against its invasion (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 20th)
“Our people poisoned Navalny”: Former FSB officer on surveilling opposition figures and running black ops in Russia and Ukraine (The Insider, October 18th)
St Petersburg Street Musician Arrested After Viral Anti-Putin Gig (Moscow Times, October 16th)
“One Day, Women Will Eat the Kremlin” (Posle, October 15th)
Analysis and comment:
Rental Housing in Ukraine: Current State and Challenges (Cedos, October 24th)
Civilians and infrastructure targeted: Ukrainian unions call for solidarity (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 22 October)
500+ recommendations for Ukraine’s path towards the EU by NGOs (Zmina, October 20th)
‘In the Western European left, there’s a desire to put up a wall and ignore what’s happening in the east’ (Links, October 19th)
Homophobia at the core of Putinism’s ideological positioning (Commons.com, October 11th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Growing up waiting for their fathers: a photo exhibition about the children of Crimean Tatar political prisoners opened in Kyiv (Zmina, October 22nd)
“They’re destroying Ukraine’s cultural elite”: number of artists and media workers killed since 2022 revealed (Ukrainska Pravda, October 21st)
International solidarity:
UNISON Scotland Kharkiv delegation report (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 23 October)
Toxicity: backing for Russian political prisoner Mikhail Kriger (The Russian Reader, October 20th)
Upcoming events
Monday 3 November, 7.0pm, on line. UNISON Scotland Branches Kharkiv Delegation Report Back. Information and registration here.
Thursday 20 November, 7.0pm: Try Me for Treason – readings of speeches from Russia’s courts / Book launch for Voices against Putin’s war. Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London E1 5QJ. Ukraine Information Group.
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