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In this week’s bulletin: Ukrainian socialists support Iran rebels/ Russian empire in history/ Kherson’s defensive drones/ Russia tries to freeze Ukrainians/ More evidence of Russian torture and killing of POWs/ Persecution of Crimean Tatars and deliberate targeting of civilians
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Monstrous sentences demanded against nine men abducted from Kherson and savagely tortured for insane Russian show trial (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 16th)
The Face of Resistance: Political Prisoner Hennadii Lymeshko (Crimea Platform, January 16th)
Russian sentenced to life for the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kharkiv oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 15th)
Crimea treason verdict separates mother from baby needing surgery (Mediazona, 15 January)
17-year-old from occupied Mariupol faces 20-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for wanting to help Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 14th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, January 13th)
Prominent Crimean Tatar journalist and political scientist prosecuted for ‘extremism’ in an academic work (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 13th)
Worse than North Korea and plummeting. Russia hits new depths in Crimea, other occupied parts of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 12th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian pensioner to 12 years and forces him to ‘repent on video’ for supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 12th)
News from the front line:
Latest from the front: fighting continues in Pokrovsk and Kupiansk (Meduza, 16 January)
How Kherson Became a Live Testing Ground for Drone Defence Against Russia’s ‘Human Safari’ of Ukrainians (Byline Times, January 13th)
News from Ukraine:
Most Ukrainians say Donbas should not be ceded to Russia for security guarantees (Ukrainska Pravda, January 16th)
Russian infrastructure attacks push Ukrainians to the brink (Deutsche Welle, 16 January)
As Russian tries to freeze Ukrainians into submission, families try everything to stay warm (Kyiv Independent, 14 January)
Cedos experts joined a professional discussion on regulating the housing rental market (Cedos, January 12th)
Kyiv’s great re-shuffle (IPS, January 8th)
War-related news from Russia:
“You walk in and see living skeletons”: Humiliation and abuse in Russian psychiatric care homes (The Insider, January 16th)
Networking with intent: media fined for 2018 link to ‘undesirable’ organisation (Mediazona, 15 January)
Through the meat grinder: 20 dead per square kilometer and the other Russian military takeaways of 2025 (The Insider, January 15th)
Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ risks becoming a disaster (Posle.Media, 14 January)
‘We were tricked’: How one woman lures foreign men to fight for Russia (Guardian, January 13th)
The streets speak. Anti‑war messages in Russian cities (Mediazona, January 6th)
Analysis and comment:
Iran on the brink: social unrest against theocracy, poverty and repression (Social Movement of Ukraine, 16 January)
‘Lord Wolfson’s continuing role as Shadow Attorney General is a test of Badenoch – and the Tories – integrity’ (Mick Antoniw, Labour List, January 13th)
Russian imperialism: a historical approach (Links, January 13th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Monstrous 27-year sentence against Ukrainian civilian abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol (Tribunal for Putin, January 12th)
How Russia fabricates criminal cases against Ukrainians (Zmina, January 9th)
The weightlifting champion jailed by Russia for ‘plotting sabotage and assassinations’ (Guardian, January 5th)
Upcoming events:
Thursday 5th February, 6.30 pm. Try Me For Treason: readings from speeches by anti-war protesters in Russian courts, and discussion. Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL. REGISTER to attend here.
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