A chronicle of memorable contemporary events and key events of the past related to human rights violations in Ukraine. The section contains reports of repressions, acts of violence, trials and other significant incidents, documenting them to preserve historical memory and draw attention to human rights issues. The materials in the section are structured chronologically and thematically, which allows users to follow the development of events and understand the context of what is happening.

Andrei Sakharov's Historic Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev.

Based on the recollections of those involved in the events and Sakharov’s own letter to Gorbachev, the author concludes that the decisive role was played by the political will of the new USSR leadership, not by pressure from the West or the death of the dissident Anatoly Marchenko.

Alla Horska: A Return to Roots and the Fight for Freedom

On September 18, 1929, in Yalta, Alla Horska—the soul of the Sixtiers movement, an original painter, a dissident, and a human rights activist—was born into a family of typical Soviet functionaries (though her mother came from a Cossack lineage of wealthy peasants).

In Memory of Ihor Kalynets

On June 28, Ihor Kalynets — a poet, a dissident, and a political prisoner of the communist regime—passed into eternity. Volodymyr Marmus, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU), was present at the farewell ceremony in Lviv. In his eulogy, Mr. Marmus shared warm memories of Ihor Myronovych, with whom he spent two years in the Ural camps.

About Henrich Altunyan

Henrich always radiated energy and a love for life he never complained about his health. He had enough life in him for ten people, and his senseless death from complications after a failed surgery was simply impossible to believe. More than 18 years have passed since then, and all these years, the feeling of how much he is missed has never left me.

In Memory of Mykola Kozyrev

On February 21, at the age of 83, Mykola Kuzmych Kozyrev passed away. He was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights , our dear friend and colleague, a kind, bright, and highly intellectual person. His perspective was always pristine, his own, and hard-won. A philosopher by calling and profession, he was at the same time level-headed and firmly grounded.

The Return of Forgotten Names in Ukrainian Linguistics: Borys Tkachenko

A conversation between Kyrylo Bulkin and Kateryna Rapai about the linguist and translator Borys Tkachenko—an outstanding figure of the Executed Renaissance generation

“I Hid Food in Plain Sight.” The Holodomor in the Fates of Dissidents

Dozens of unique artifacts were presented at an exhibition in Dnipro, shedding light on the Holodomor-genocide of 1932–33, the Holodomors of the 1920s and 1940s, and political repressions

“The Voice of Ukrainian Political Prisoners”: Human Rights Defender from Luhansk Oblast Nadiia Svitlychna Would Have Turned 85

She fought for the rights of Ukrainians in the Soviet Union. For this, she was blackmailed with her child and sent to a labor camp in the north for 4 years. She managed to escape to the West, where she deciphered the microscopic letters of Vasyl Stus's camp diary and began to demand justice for those unjustly persecuted in the USSR.

Do you remember, comrade, how we fought together?

This year, it coincides with the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Exodus of Soviet Jews from the kingdom of the Red Pharaoh. To mark the occasion, commemorative rallies, gatherings, meetings, symposia, and seminars are being held all over the world. Due to coronavirus safety requirements, all of this is taking place via remote communication, a sort of private internet conversation among a narrow circle of select participants. This opens up unprecedented room for a torrent of personal fabrications, falsifications, and myth-making.

Anniversary of the Sandarmokh Executions: A Memory That Cannot Be Destroyed

On these days 83 years ago, in the Sandarmokh wooded tract in Karelia, the death machine operated with particular cruelty: executioners, with rabid zeal, killed people to serve the authorities on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the so-called October Revolution.
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