Ref: Reportedly detained by the 206th Territorial Defense Battalion. The Ukrainian security service known as the SBU has served as the main enforcer of the post-Maidan governments campaign of domestic political repression. Unverified claims made indicate the participation of Azov members in the torture and disappearance of Maxim Rindkovsky. On March 19, Russian official and triathlete Dmitry Polyanskiy tweeted, "We are extremely worried about the fate of Ukrainian human rights defender and anti-fascist activist Elena Berezhnaya, who was taken by #Ukraine's Security Services (SBU)." Both were, In the following days, the SBU arrested broadcast journalist Yan Taksyur and charged him with treason; human rights activist Elena Berezhnaya; Elena Viacheslavova, a human rights advocate whose father, Mikhail, was burned to death during the, Perhaps the most ghastly incident of repression took place when neo-Nazis backed by the Ukrainian government kidnapped Maxim Ryndovskiy, a professional MMA fighter, and, Ukraines SBU has even hunted opposition figures outside the countrys borders. she suffered a serious injury, leaving her partly paralyzed and . Her speech was "damaged," Moskvina said. Performed with "Stars on Ice" during their 2003-2004 touring season. Elena Berezhnaya (Human rights activist / ex-figure skater) Dmitry Dzhangirov, (TV presenter, political scientist); Yuriy Dudkin, (political scientist); Maxim Rindkovsky (MMA fighter); Dmitry Skvortsov (journalist); Aleksandr Matiushenko (activist organisation "Livytsia"); Oleg Smetanin (violinist); "I hope here to be in the top 24" to qualify for next year's Olympic Games, she said. Involvement of nitric oxide in photodynamic injury of neurons and glial cells. According to Prozorov, the ex-SBU officer, the Ukrainian security services have been directly advised by the CIA since 2014. "People are nostalgic for such a style," Moskvina said of her young pair. After unsuccessfully teaming up with Aleksandr Ruchkin, her coach's son, Berezhnaya teamed up with Latvian Oegs ahovs and they skated together more than five years. Several journalists and Ukrainian dissidents, including the prominent columnistOles Buzina, weremurdered by state-backed death squadsafter their names appeared on the list. advocated for a settlement of the conflict in Donbass, Add into this maelstrom another layer of extra-judicial repression, in the form ofimpromptu justice being meted out to civilians, bound up, tied to posts, beaten, humiliated and some killed as a result. Two years ago, Berezhnaya lay near death with a brain injury. Mamula Mamulashvili, the commander of the Georgian Legion, which participated in the field executions of wounded Russian POWs,boasted this Aprilthat his unit freely engages in war crimes: Yes, we tie their hands and feet sometimes. Germany's Mandy Woetzel and Ingo Steuer are first. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She landed just a triple toe loop, fell on another triple jump and turned three planned triples into singles. Not every ethnic Russian speaker in Ukraine can speak good Ukrainian, and some have trouble pronouncing certain words in Ukrainian. Extrajudicial killings, harassment, arbitrary detentions by men in camouflaged uniforms, beatings and disappearances continue to take place on a regular basis in Ukraine. Dmitry Dzhangirov, (TV presenter, political scientist); Aleksandr Matiushenko (activist organisation Livytsia); These individuals and others are listed in further details later on in the article. The MSM are indeed complicit in whitewashing these abominable events. I focus is on the . Member of the Novyi Sotcialism (New Socialism) party. Another paramilitary group, Right Sector also has wide connections with the SBU. There they continued to interrogate us and threatened to cut off our ears, Matjuschenkos wife, The torture of left-wing activist Alexander Matjuschenko on March 3 in Dnipro, recorded by Azov members and posted on Telegram by the city of Dnipro, Matjuschenko was jailed on the grounds that he was conducting an aggressive war or military operation, and now faces 10 to 15 years in prison. The Ukrainian government knows this, more so since Zelensky, since heappointed Oleksandr Pokladas the SBUs counter-intelligence chief in 2021. Nestor Shufrych. Her coach Eteri Tutberidze has been seen watching over her other two pupils, Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova, who would be elevated to favorites without Valieva. As he wiped out his opposition, Zelenskyorderedan unprecedented domestic propaganda initiative to nationalize all television news broadcasting andcombineall channels into a single 24 hour channel called United News to tell the truth about war.. What Happened To Russian Figure Skating Pair Elena Berezhnaya And Anton Sikharulidze. Ukraines SBU has even hunted opposition figures outside the countrys borders. Then came Igors turn. The SBU, human rights abuses and paramilitaires. He subsequently learned that Igor was held by the SBU at the time and being used to bait Shariy into disclosing his location. In January of 1996, her partner, Oleg Shilakhov, slashed a deep cut into her skull with his skate while they practiced. This March 3 in the city of Dnipro, SBU officers accompanied by Azov ultra-nationalists raided the home of activists with the Livizja (Left) organization, which has organized against social spending cuts and right-wing media propaganda. Yet, they have no time or inclination whatsoever to do likewise for those critical of Zelenskys government, state- repression that is innumerably and unrelentingly cruel, harsher, and significantly deadlier. Sikharulidze was Berezhnaya's boyfriend at.