DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of corpses that have lain too long in muck and ruin, the ones the dogs didn’t devour. Oleksii Yukov, a 38-year-old martial arts instructor who leads a team of volunteer body collectors in Ukraine, doesn’t notice. He is on […]
In response to the death of Russian democratic opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, who died in Russian custody while unjustly incarcerated, Freedom House joins partners in requesting the Biden Administration to accelerate efforts to free imprisoned Russian democracy advocate, Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is included below and can be read here.
In 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Russia on bogus charges for his criticism of Putin's repressive government and the Kremlin's ongoing war against Ukraine.