Liubov Smachylo
Enforced disappearances: national practice v. international standards
The issue of enforced disappearances has gained new urgency for Ukraine due to the ongoing armed conflict on its territory. Since 2014, with the occupation of the Crimean peninsula and the armed conflict within certain districts in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have recorded cases of disappearances and illegal detentions of […]
Imposing citizenship of the Russian Federation on the citizens of Ukraine in the occupied territory of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation
After the beginning of the invasion of the territory of Ukraine in 2014, the Russian Federation began to use the tools of imposing Russian citizenship on the population of the occupied territories. The first victims of this policy were the residents of occupied Crimea. The Russian Federation began to automatically consider everyone who lived on […]
