Tag: Crimea

Member of the European Parliament, Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz, filed a written inquiry with the European Commission regarding the Ukrainian activists, abducted from the territory of Crimea: Oleg Sentsov, Gennadiy Afanasyev, Aleksey Chirniy and Alexander Kolchenko.

Vincent Degert, representing the European External Action Service answered questions from the Open Dialogue Foundation concerning, amongst others, the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, persecuted by Russia.

TVP 2 channel aired a report on refugees forced to leave their homes after the annexation of the Crimea by Russia. Amongst them, there are many Crimean Tatars who found refuge in places such as Drohobych.

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz has responded to a request sent by the Open Dialogue Foundation regarding the case of film director Oleg Sentsov and Ukrainian activists arrested in Crimea and illegally transferred to Russia, where they were charged with alleged participation in a terrorist group and preparation of terrorist acts. Schulz expressed […]

A fabricated criminal case of alleged preparation of terrorist acts on the territory of the Crimean peninsula, with four Crimean civil activists charged (including a well-known director Oleg Sentsov), is gathering pace.

On radio TOK FM about the possible military intervention and the situation in Donetsk – an interview with Tomasz Czuwara, spokesman for the Open Dialogue Foundation, and Anna Maria Dyner of the Polish Institute of International Affairs

On 15 July 2014, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Italian Parliament will hold a hearing on the situation in Ukraine. The Open Dialogue Foundation was invited to participate in the meeting, along with two other guests to provide the expertise and for an informal exchange of views with the Italian.

Russian lawyer Mark Feygin became famous for his participation in the high-profile case of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, and no less scandalous was the ending of their partnership.

Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter, producer and pro-Ukrainian activist and three of his colleagues were unlawfully kidnapped from the occupied territory of Crimea by the Russian FSB agents and transferred to Moscow on 23 May 2014.

Chairman of the Board of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Bartosz Kramek, talked to TOK FM about the developments in Ukraine.

Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the Crimea detained and arrested four citizens of Ukraine on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks in the occupied peninsula. In order to obtain confessions, they used torture against the detainees.

The Yagichevs family – Rafat and his mother Zemfira – come from the Crimea. They were forced to leave the peninsula due to the Russian occupation, and now they reside in Kiev.

Thirteen Tatar families who were resettled from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea are now under the care of “CARITAS SDD UGKC“ in Drohobytsch, thanks to a project financed by the Open Dialogue Foundation.

Thirteen Tatar families who were resettled from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea are now under the care of “CARITAS SDD UGKC“ in Drohobytsch, thanks to a project financed by the Open Dialogue Foundation.

Yuri Borodin was born on December 8, 1993 in Bakchysarai in Crimea. He is a trained technician-mechanic and driver. His passions include sea and mountain rescue. He, along with his mother and brother, moved to Kiev several months prior to the events of Maidan.