Tag: First Chechen War

Savchenko Returns To Moscow For Karpyuk And Klykh Hearing; Maryinka Shelled

October 26, 2016
Spotlight
Ukraine At War

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the 22.5 and 20 year sentences imposed on the two Ukrainians despite testimony extracted under torture being retracted.

3,500 Russian Soldiers Died in Putin’s War in Ukraine, Rights Activists Say

September 15, 2014
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, September 15 – More than 3,500 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine in the course of Vladimir Putin’s war against the Ukrainian people, according to Elena Vasilyeva of Murmansk. That figure is roughly one quarter of the number Moscow claimed it lost in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. But Russian media have ignored or […]