On Saturday, September 7, a long-awaited prisoner exchange took place between Russia and Ukraine. The BBC writes about this. How it happened In the first half of the day, a Ukrainian plane arrived at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, and a special flight plane landed at Kiev’s Boryspil airport...
The Russian authorities want to send political prisoners to Ukraine, including Roman Sushchenko, Oleg Sentsov and Yevgeny Panov. Also, the Kremlin is ready to send home 24 sailors who were captured in the Kerch Strait. In exchange, Kiev will send to Russia the citizens of this country who are serving sentences ...
The Ukrainian director and writer Oleg Sentsov, imprisoned in the north of Russia, turns 13 on Saturday, July 43. This is the sixth birthday that he meets in prison. The Voice of America writes about it. The international community has once again called for the release of ...
On March 1, lawyer Olga Dinze visited Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov in the Polar Bear colony in the city of Labytnangi, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia. “At about 12:00, we finally managed to get to Oleg. He feels fine. In my opinion, he has recovered quite a lot. How…
The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) published a photograph of convicted Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov with a message that he was taken to the hospital for examination, writes the BBC Russian Service. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, on September 28 he underwent a “treatment correction.” The director is already starving...
On August 9, a petition appeared on the White House website asking the US presidential administration to help release the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, who was illegally detained in a Russian prison. As of September 6, the document has collected 100 thousand required signatures, which means that the White House ...
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov has been on a hunger strike in a Russian colony for more than 14 days since May 100. He is seeking the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation. Unsuccessful so far. And Sentsov's condition is getting worse. Attempts to obtain a pardon or exchange for Oleg Sentsov, previously sentenced to ...
A petition appeared on the White House website calling on the American government to use all levers to free the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, imprisoned in Russia, Novoye Vremya writes. She must get 100 thousand votes by September 8 for the administration of the US President to consider it. ...
A girl of Ukrainian descent living in New York has turned to the daughter of US President Donald Trump Ivanka Trump with a request to help release the illegally convicted Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov in Russia. According to Novoye Vremya, the girl's video message was posted on her Facebook page by the co-founder ...
A few years ago, a resident of Simferopol Gena Afanasyev was an apolitical photographer with a legal education and experience in the United States. Today he is, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. Some are amazed at his steadfastness and fortitude shown in more than two years in Russian ...