DPR

By December 31, 2024: occupiers are coercing residents of Donetsk region into obtaining Russian passports through blackmail.
News - 23 September 2024

By December 31, 2024: occupiers are coercing residents of Donetsk region into obtaining Russian passports through blackmail.

Otherwise they will not be able to "receive the rights and benefits provided by Russia"

Who works in the courts of first instance in the occupied part of Donetsk region
Articles - 21 June 2024

Who works in the courts of first instance in the occupied part of Donetsk region

The Donetsk occupation system of “justice” developed in 2014 is based on Ukrainian traitor judges, who have been the backbone of the judiciary of the illegal DPR formation all this time. Many have been working without a break for the second decade and have already taken their third oath of allegiance

Who is now administering “supreme” justice in the occupied territory of Donetsk region
Articles - 07 June 2024

Who is now administering “supreme” justice in the occupied territory of Donetsk region

Who took control of the so-called “Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic,” what motivated people from Russian regions to start working there, and to what extent local “elites” have retained their presence in the central judicial institution, read in ZMINA article.

Memories of Halyna Haiova, a torture survivor of the infamous Izolyatsia prison
News - 05 February 2024

Memories of Halyna Haiova, a torture survivor of the infamous Izolyatsia prison

Halyna Haiova, a senior nurse from the city of Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk region, was arrested by representatives of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) at her workplace on October 14, 2016. She was accused of having pro-Ukrainian views and helping the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The woman was held in captivity for nearly sixteen months, most of […]

Three stories about the abuse and inhumane conditions for Ukrainian women prisoners
Articles - 04 August 2023

Three stories about the abuse and inhumane conditions for Ukrainian women prisoners

Read about how Russian forces detain women, the conditions in which they are held, and their treatment in Russian prisons in the stories of the director of a village club and a masseuse from Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, and a volunteer from Mariupol, Donetsk region, shared with ZMINA by the prisoners themselves or their relatives and friends

Mariupol policewoman Mariana Chechelyuk’s health has deteriorated significantly over the year of captivity
News - 18 July 2023

Mariupol policewoman Mariana Chechelyuk’s health has deteriorated significantly over the year of captivity

For a year, the occupiers transported the woman from one prison to another, subjected her to physical and psychological pressure, and created unbearable detention conditions. Currently, Mariana Chechelyuk needs medical care, which is not provided to her in the Taganrog detention center

Aseev’s health sharply deteriorated in captivity of the “DNR”
News - 28 July 2017

Aseev’s health sharply deteriorated in captivity of the “DNR”

Aseev does not have the necessary medications and representatives of the “Ministry of State Security of the DNR” refuse to provide him with medications

Poroshenko proposes to give residents of Crimea foreign passports of an old type
News - 25 May 2017

Poroshenko proposes to give residents of Crimea foreign passports of an old type

"If we have no reasons to grant them biometric passports..."

People continue to disappear in the occupied territories
News - 15 May 2017

People continue to disappear in the occupied territories

If a person starts expressing on his/her blog, then he/she is subjected to repressions

One in ten news of online media outlets of the so-called “LPR” and “DPR” contains hate speech – IMI
News - 24 February 2017

One in ten news of online media outlets of the so-called “LPR” and “DPR” contains hate speech – IMI

Therewith, there are no materials criticizing the self-proclaimed authorities of the so-called "LPR" and "DPR"

Polozov will not be able to defend Ilmi Umerov
News - 14 February 2017

Polozov will not be able to defend Ilmi Umerov

Ilmi Umerov himself reacted to the decision calmly...

Russian LGBT activists missing in DPR
News - 09 February 2017

Russian LGBT activists missing in DPR

Since 2014 Vasilyev has refugee status in Finland

Another local blogger detained in the LPR
News - 27 December 2016

Another local blogger detained in the LPR

He is accused of extremism

Officials ashamed of hate speech, plan to take drastic measures
News - 03 November 2016

Officials ashamed of hate speech, plan to take drastic measures

The issue of discrimination has long been not on the agenda of the government...

Ukrainian Ombudsperson’s Office transfers another 23 convicts from ‘DPR’ territory
News - 19 October 2016

Ukrainian Ombudsperson’s Office transfers another 23 convicts from ‘DPR’ territory

There is one woman in today's group

‘DPR’ militants intend to confiscate housing of ‘public enemies’
News - 18 October 2016

‘DPR’ militants intend to confiscate housing of ‘public enemies’

"If there is a public enemy, the movable and immovable property of such a person is confiscated, and then it becomes people’s property..."

News - 06 September 2016

Students from government-controlled Mayorske go to school in ‘DPR’ – media

The parents of only five students agreed to send their children to school in the town of Bakhmut, controlled by Ukraine

Facebook banned in occupied Donetsk
News - 05 August 2016

Facebook banned in occupied Donetsk

As well as Ukrainian mobile operators and e-mail