In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Report on propaganda in occupied territories.
⬤ Money for Russian oil.
⬤ Western tech in Russian jets.
⬤ Health workers’ solidarity.
⬤ UN Human Rights call for ceasefire.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Parades, flags and songs: The campaign to force Ukrainian children to love Russia (BBC, July 20th)
From torture to indefinite punitive psychiatry in Russia’s savage persecution of Melitopol Telegram administrator (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 19th)
How Russia uses Crimea to commit crimes (Ukrainer, 19 July)
Russian penal colonies block medical care: health conditions of Crimean Tatar prisoners have deteriorated (Crimea Platform, 18 July)
Crimean student refuses to 'repent' for the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar flags and the words Crimea is Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 18th)
The face of resistance: Crimean Tatar activist Enver Mamutov (Crimea Platform, 18 July)
Former political prisoner Vladyslav Yesypenko: a letter to illegally imprisoned Crimean Halyna Dovhopola (Crimea Platform, 17 July)
Russian FSB concocts 'terrorism' charges two months after abducting 24-year-old Crimean Tatar woman (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 16th)
Mounting terror in occupied Crimea as FSB openly hide abducted Ukrainians while probably torturing out ‘confessions’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 15 July)
Russian FSB given chilling new weapon of repression against Ukrainian political prisoners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Planted ‘extremist’ literature and prohibitive fine used to crush independent Muslim community in Russian-occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Constructing the Russian reality: Russian propaganda in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine (Alter Pravo, July)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, June 2025)
News from the front
Closing in: Russian forces advance on two Donbas cities (Meduza, 18 July)
“If we got captured, we’d probably be executed”: Confessions of three foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine (The Insider, July 14th)
War-related news from Russia
Russian social media in war time: Living their best lives (The Russian Reader, 18 July)
One-way visa: Russian regional governments recruiting Arab mercenaries (The Insider, July 16th)
How the war changed CIS countries’ attitude to Russia (iStories, 16 July)
Returning veterans: ‘expect more violent crime’ (Meduza, 16 July)
Analysis and comment
Stop using the justice system for political reprisals: statement by civil society organisations on the case of Vitalii Shabunin (Zmina, July 15th)
Impact on civilians of wave of Russian attacks underscores need for immediate ceasefire (UN Commissioner for Human Rights, July 15th)
Political prisoner Iryna Danylovich: Action needed on abuse in Russian prisons (Crimea Human Rights Group, 15 July)
Parts of the problem: Tracing Western Tech in Russia’s Deadliest Jets (International Partnership for Human Rights, July 8th)
Financing Putin’s war: Fossil fuel imports from Russia during the invasion of Ukraine (Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, June 2025)
Research of human rights abuses
“They tied me to a chair with duct tape and started torturing me with electricity”: Testimonies of Ukrainian women abducted by Russia (The Insider, July 19th)
“Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia”: representatives of the Ministry of Justice and the human rights community discussed the historic decision of the ECtHR (Zmina, July 16th)
Alena Lunova and Olha Kuryshko met with Italian Senators in Rome: Crimea, the tribunal and countering propaganda (Zmina, July 11th)
The reports of the Human Rights Centre ZMINA were used as evidence in the ECtHR case “Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia” (Zmina, July 11th)
The book by Crimean Tatar political prisoner Osman Arifmemetov was presented at the Sens bookstore in Kyiv (Zmina, July 10th)
International solidarity
Russia’s Anti-War Political Prisoners (Jacobin Radio, July 17th)
Health workers’ support campaign: Be Like We Are (formerly Be Like Nina) (European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, 28 June)
Upcoming events
Monday 28th July 6:00 pm, Another Ukraine is Possible – Free from Occupation. Chaired by Mick Whelan - General Secretary of ASLEF train drivers union. , Mander Hall, NEU, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD.
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