In this week’s bulletin – highlights
In this week’s bulletin: Russian authorities are trying to force residents in occupied areas of Ukraine to accept Russian citizenship in time for fraudulent parliamentary ‘elections’. They threaten to withdraw free medication, cut off electricity, confiscate property and force eviction.
Plus: Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to a total of 53 years prison and a well-known human rights defender to 14 years, for helping victims of repression.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russian citizenship or your life. How Moscow prepares for fake elections in occupied parts of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 2nd)
‘Russian soldiers stopped the car with bread, threw the bread out and ran over it with their car. So that people would have nothing to eat’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 2nd)
Russians find new methods for forced passportization in Kherson Oblast (Ukrainska Pravda, June 2nd)
Russians seize property from Crimean residents without Russian passports (Ukrainska Pravda, June 2nd)
New charges concocted to extend sentence of 64-year-old Oleh Prykhodko, imprisoned for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 2nd)
Nine months in a juvenile shelter. Musician David’s story about deportation to Russia (Commons (Spil’ne), 1 June)
Russia sentences four Crimean Tatar civic activists to 53 years for ‘dissident views’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 1st)
"Nazis" and "sex trafficking": How Russians lie to justify abduction of Ukrainian children (Ukrainska Pravda, June 1st)
Over 2,000 children forcibly taken from Ukrainian temporarily occupied territories to Belarus (Ukrainska Pravda, June 1st)
Russians abduct and doubtless torture Ukrainian journalist and her husband in occupied Melitopol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 31st)
Russia sentences human rights defender to 14 years for helping political prisoners seek justice from ECHR (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 30th)
Crimean Tatar human rights defender charged with 'discrediting' the Russian invaders on Facebook (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 30th)
Russia imposes jail or fines for correct maps of Ukraine claiming they 'violate its territorial integrity' (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 29th)
Sharp increase in persecution for pro-Ukrainian position in Russian-occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 29th)
News from Ukraine – general
European electoral management bodies and experts call for support to Ukraine over voting rights for war-displaced voters in post-war elections (Opora, June 2nd)
Common Home. Ukrainian urban forum 2023 in Vinnytsia (Cedos, 1 June)
War-related news from Russia:
Who are the far-right Russian groups fighting on Ukraine’s side? (Open Democracy, May 30th)
Analysis and comment
Putin targets Ukrainian civilians because he could in Syria (Al Jazeera, May 19th)
Syria, Ukraine and bonding over activism (Syrian Untold, August 2022)
Can Lula’s plan bring peace to Ukraine? (Green Left, June 2nd)
A short reminder that Russia is imperialist (Ilya Matveev on Facebook, May 25th)
Research of human rights abuses
‘Children, I won’t be able to teach the lesson because the war has started’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 31st)
‘I knew people who died in the basements of Borodianka…’ (Tribunal for Putin, June 1st)
‘My brother and enfeebled mother were left in the middle of the street’, stories from Izium (Tribunal for Putin, May 29th)
International solidarity
Another Ukraine is Possible: help workers fight for a just reconstruction (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign)
Statement on Ukraine following UCU Congress 2023 (UCU activists, June 1st)
Solidarity with Ukraine: a round-up of recent initiatives (Labour Hub, June 1st)
An open letter to UCU from SSEES staff (East of Ethnia, May 31st)
From Lisbon to Kryvyi Rih: a conversation with Yuri Samoilov about labour solidarity (Commons (Spil’ne), 30 May)
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