Home › Savchenko law
MediaOrganization
Search
Subscribe Support
ZMINA
  • News
  • Articles
  • Instructions
  • Columns
  • Announcements
  • UA
  • RU
ZMINA
  • News
  • Articles
  • Instructions
  • Columns
  • Announcements
  • UA
  • RU

Savchenko law

Parliament abolished the “Savchenko law”
News - 18 May 2017

Parliament abolished the “Savchenko law”

In fact, by a minimal majority of 227 votes, the deputies adopted changes believing in the arguments that "Savchenko law" entails "an increase in crime"

Iryna Gerashchenko: 495 women, 68 children killed in Donbass
News - 26 October 2016

Iryna Gerashchenko: 495 women, 68 children killed in Donbass

495 women and 68 children have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the onset of the conflict there

34,000 prisoners to be released under ‘Savchenko law’ this year – police
News - 16 September 2016

34,000 prisoners to be released under ‘Savchenko law’ this year – police

34,000 prisoners are to be released this year under the so-called "Savchenko law", which equates one day in a remand prison to two days in prison

Parliament passes Savchenko’s bill: One day in remand prison now equals two days in prison
News - 26 November 2015

Parliament passes Savchenko’s bill: One day in remand prison now equals two days in prison

The bill was supported by 255 MPs

Archive

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728  

Articles

24 February

“No other country in the world has had reporters working under such conditions for years”: Russia’s war crimes against media, illustrated by the regional branches of Suspilne

20 February

“Mum, I don’t want to go back there…”: blind political prisoner Sizikov was released from a penal colony on health grounds, but then the decision was overturned

16 February

ZMINA reader survey: Share your feedback

16 January

Prison guards at “Izolyatsia” replicated torture methods shown in the American film The Mauritanian: Daniil Bulhakov says after three years in “DPR” prisons

27 December

Government agencies have appointed officials responsible for the temporarily occupied territories: human rights advocate explains what this will change

Instructions

19 February

Kremlin Prisoners: How to Write a Letter to a Political Prisoner

Columns

The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

26 February

The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Mariia Sulialina

24 February

Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russia’s and USSR’s colonial narratives?

Leila Seiitbek

11 February

Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russia’s and USSR’s colonial narratives?

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Hlonipha Mokoena

31 January

Reconciliation never ends: on the challenges of decolonization in South Africa

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

Munira Mustaffa

27 January

Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.

ZMINA. Центр прав людини
ZMINA

Reproduction of materials only with a hyperlink to https://zmina.info/

Materials
  • News
  • Articles
  • Instructions
  • Columns
  • Announcements
Our contacts
  • Chief editor: Olga Padyryakova
  • E-mail to the editorial office: op@humanrights.org.ua
  • Postal address: 04071, Kyiv, a/y 33
Support the work of the resource Subscribe to the newsletter Contact us

Donors

Міністерство закордонних справ Об’єднаного Королівства Великої Британії Freedom House Міністерство закордонних справ Чехії ЄС Міжнародний фонд відродження ОБСЕ

Reproduction of materials only with a hyperlink to https://zmina.info/

© 2026 ZMINA

Send a message

Thank you,
Your message has been sent!





    Контактна інформація

    33B Yaroslaviv Val St., 3rd floor, 01054, Kyiv, Ukraine

    (067) 502-08-01

    op@humanrights.org.ua

    Subscribe to the newsletter

    Thank you,
    Your message has been sent!







      Subscribe to the newsletter

      Every Friday, get the most interesting materials of the week: important news and relevant announcements, extensive texts and useful instructions.