In mid-July, the occupiers announced a “renewal” of the so-called “civic chamber” of Crimean collaborators. Since 2014, this structure had been “continuously headed” by Alexander Formanchuk, the former head of the ideological department of the…
On July 16, the Moscow Patriarchate announced a “leadership change” in the monasteries of occupied Sevastopol.These changes boil down to the dismissal of Hegumen Matthew (Ilya Samokhin), “the abbot of the St. George Balaklava Monastery…
On 16 July, the European Court of Human Rights published Judgment in the case “Bazhenov and Others v. Russia and Ukraine” that concerned the “cancellation” by the Russian “authorities” of the applicants’ titles to plots…
On July 13, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) published the communication in cases 21414/18, 21897/18, 22001/18, and 22002/18 against Russia, where applicants Viktor Novytskyy, Gennadiy Otychko, Ruslan Skrypnyk, and Sergiy Kalinichenko were the…
By mid-July, a scandal was brewing in the aggressor-controlled media surrounding the online community “Empire of Geese,” once founded by cover band musicians Alexei Kuzmin and Viktor Postnyi from the Moscow region.Ekaterina Mizulina, a “child…
On July 9, ODIHR OSCE published the Report on violations and abuses of international humanitarian, human rights, and criminal law related to the militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian children by Russia, prepared by professors Hervé…
Since July 5, a tragicomedy has been unfolding in occupied Sevastopol surrounding the “fraud” of the so-called “organizer and director of the museum and exhibition complex of the Russian State Art Gallery,” Vitaly Zotov.As a…
Since early July, the Russian “press” has been claiming that Serhiy Arbuzov, former First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and former head of the National Bank of Ukraine during the Yanukovych era, will be elected…
At the end of June, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination did publish the Views, adopted at the Committee’s 117th session on 23 April 2026 regarding communications 85/2023, 86/2023, and 87/2023, submitted…
According to Monegasque authorities and sources in the French press, an assassination attempt on controversial businessman Vadym Iermolaiev, who has been under Ukrainian sanctions since 2023, occurred in Monte Carlo on the evening of June…