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In this week’s bulletin: International solidarity convoy to Ukraine/ Russia’s authoritarian neoliberalism/ Repression in St Petersburg/ Labour rights in Ukraine/ The danger of historical amnesia/ Russia’s targeting of emergency responders/ Comment: Ukrainian refugees in Europe/ How the Kremlin recruits Western socialists
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Captured Russian soldier who raped civilian sentenced (Ukrainska Pravda, August 14)
Oksana Senezhuk: two years in detention (Crimea Platform, 14 August)
Ukrainian prisoner with autism tormented with punishment psychiatry (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 14 August)
Crimea Weekly Update (Crimea Platform, 12 August)
Volodymyr Ananiev turns 77 in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, 11 August)
Russian-occupied Ukraine ‘less free than notorious dictatorships’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 10 August)
New ‘treason’ charges against Crimean political prisoner (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 10 August)
13-year sentence for refusing to be silent about Russia’s occupation of Kherson oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 7th)
Face of Resistance: Political Prisoner Nasiba Saidova (Crimea Platform, August 7th)
Health concerns mount for 62-year-old Larysa Haidai, held incommunicado for two years while FSB fabricated charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 7th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian Serhiy Moskalenko to 25 years calling resistance to invaders ‘treason’ and ‘terrorism’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 6th)
Political prisoner Volodymyr Sakada released (Crimea Platform, August 5th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, August 4th)
Convicted Crimean Tatar Niyara Ersambetova transferred to Mordovia (Crimea Platform, August 3rd)
Russia passes horrific 24-year sentence against Melitopol man ‘for possession of explosives’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 3rd)
At least 55 Crimeans are held incommunicado, without charges, in notorious FSB-controlled prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 3rd)
News from Ukraine:
Kyiv: protestors gather again near president’s office (Ukrainska Pravda, August 14)
Russian hitman arrested for targeting Ukrainian rapper Kyivstoner (Ukrainska Pravda, August 14)
The sea gates are locked: how much Ukraine stands to lose from Odesa blockade (ZN.ua, August 11)
Russian strikes leave Kyiv shelves empty (Kyiv Independent, August 13)
Ukraine wants foreign investors to buy state assets: so far they’re not biting (Kyiv Independent, August 12)
Ukraine keeps changing defense ministers. Does that hurt war effort? (Kyiv Independent, August 2nd)
Assault regiment commander ordered troops to fire on retreating comrades, media investigation alleges (Kyiv Independent, July 30th)
‘The war cannot be an excuse’: Social Movement’s Olena Tkalich on labour rights and economic survival in Ukraine (Cross-Border Talks, 27 July)
Progress of the war:
Russia shuts down key Black Sea terminal after drone attack (Kyiv Independent, August 15)
UN: July the worst month for four years, for Ukrainian civilians (Meduza, 14 August)
Young volunteer, firefighters, medics killed trying to save the victims of Russian attacks (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 5th)
Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson (Byline Times, August 5th)
War-related news from Russia:
Inside Russia’s new gulag: report from a women’s prison in Rostov (Meduza, 15 August)
A Russian soldier’s farewell letter (Mediazona, 14 August)
Russian casualties: Mediazona’s count updated (Mediazona, 14 August)
The war’s impact on the Bering Strait: When the Whales leave again (Posle.Media, 12 August)
Contemporary art in Russia: ‘Putinist formalism has arrived’ (The Insider, 10 August)
Unwilling “terrorists”: the men the Kremlin accuses of bombing Kerch Strait Bridge (The Insider, August 6th)
No country for old metal heads: Russian police are breaking up concerts (The Insider, August 3rd)
A new Comintern: How the Kremlin lures Western “socialists” into army (The Insider, August 3rd)
Comment and analysis:
The wrong lever: Europe, Ukraine and the Refugee Question (International Viewpoint, 13 August)
Russia’s Aggression Demonstrates the Dangers of Historical Amnesia (Posle.Media, 5 August)
Russia’s war: an open letter to Diane Abbott MP (Labour Hub, 9 August)
Protect Ukrainian Children from Russian Trafficking (Intern’l Partnership for Human Rights, July 30)
Research of human rights abuses:
Cluster munition attack a potential war crime (Human Rights Watch, 13 August)
Unending torment as Valentyn Vyhivsky, other Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russian captivity after long sentences (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 4th)
International solidarity:
Call for support: International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine (August)
Podcast: Ukraine and the Global Sumud Flotilla (Green Socialist Notes, 10 August)
Also not to be missed:
Russia and NATO: why Moldova is next on Putin’s list (Meduza, 14 August)
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