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In this week’s bulletin: Occupied territories courts’ brutality/Mr Nobody and his critics/ Ukraine housing survey/ Schoolboys tortured to death/ Russia’s phosphorous munitions/ Militarisation of Crimean schoolchildren/ Russia foreign policy analysed/ High oil prices benefit Russian budget
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Terror behind closed doors: Russia’s abductions, torture and monstrous sentences in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 27th)
Russia imposes criminal liability for denying previously unknown ‘genocide of the Soviet people’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 27th)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Tatar Activist Marlen Mustafayev (Crimea Platform, March 27th)
Russia Leads Crimean Children from School Desk to Combat Contract (Crimea Platform, March 27th)
Melitopol IT specialist sentenced to 20 years after Russians torture out a ‘confession’ to ‘terrorist plans’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 26th)
Another 15 children and teenagers brought back from Russian occupation after fear, threats and pressure (Ukrainska Pravda, March 25th)
Russia brings new 5-year sentence against Crimean political prisoner over 2022 social media post (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 25th)
The price of a few cents: Women in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine are being jailed for tiny payments to Ukraine (The Insider, March 25th)
Weekly Update On The Situation In Temporarily Occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, March 24th)
Outcomes of the Third Black Sea Security Conference of the International Crimea Platform (Crimea Platform, March 24th)
Russian judge convicted of war crimes over massive sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending his country (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 24th)
Russia tortures two young Melitopol schoolboys to death, passes long sentences against three other lads (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 23rd)
Russian legislation used as weapon against 74-year-old historian and the truth about the Crimean Tatar Deportation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 23rd)
News from Ukraine:
Housing and Residential Conditions of Ukrainians: Survey Results (Cedos, March 27th)
Professional development and educational needs: the second networking event for journalists from relocated media outlets took place in Kyiv (Zmina, March 20th)
Kyiv Register of Damage Forum on supporting people affected by war (Zmina, March 20th)
War-related news from Russia:
‘Total chaos’: Russia’s internet blackout (Meduza, 27 March)
Russian losses in war update (Mediazona, 27 March)
The virtual ruble: Why Russia’s digital currency experiment could strengthen the Kremlin’s authoritarian control (The Insider, March 27th)
How Russian school history books reframe Stalin, Gorbachev and war in Ukraine (Meduza, 24 March)
Analysis and comment:
Soaring oil prices will benefit Russian budget, but not fix the economy (Meduza, 26 March)
Phosphorus as a Tactic of War (Tribunal for Putin, March 26th)
Anti-war film: Mr Nobody and his critics (The Russian Reader, 24 March)
Impossible Island: Russia’s foreign policy analysed (Posle.Media, March 18th)
International solidarity:
Teachers’ union vote to support Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 26 March)
ZMINA brings Ukrainian perspective to Democratic Solidarity dialogue in Bolivia (Zmina, March 23rd)
Upcoming events:
Wednesday 15 April, 6.0-7:30 pm. Try Me for Treason: Voices Against Putin’s War – Part of the Think Human Festival 2026 Actors will perform extracts from speeches made from the dock by Russian oppositionists who have been tried for sabotage for actions taken against the Russo-Ukrainian war Clerici Building, Clerici Learning Studio, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford.
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