Enjoy the World Cup in Russia where you can get 20 years for opposing annexation of Crimea

Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 0:58 (EET) Section: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Ukraine)

Fans visiting the 2018 World Cup this summer are to be ‘protected’ by Cossacks similar to those who helped Russian soldiers invade Ukrainian Crimea in 2014. Hardly an accidental choice of thugs considering that the Kremlin has tried to protect itself against criticism by hiding Ukrainian political prisoners like Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko thousands of kilometres away from Moscow. …read more

Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group