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Ruslan Kotsaba, the Glossary

Ruslan Petrovych Kotsaba (Руслан Петрович Коцаба; born 18 August 1966) is a Ukrainian journalist, activist, blogger and conscientious objector who has been described as a pro-Russian blogger by USA Today and as a prisoner of conscience by human rights organisations.^[1]

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Aidar Battalion

24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar" (24-й окремий штурмовий батальйон «Айдар») also known as the Aidar Battalion, is an assault battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Argumenty i Fakty

(Аргументы и факты, commonly abbreviated "АиФ" and translated as Arguments and Facts) is a weekly newspaper based in Moscow and a publishing house in Russia and worldwide.

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Avvenire

(English: "Future") is an Italian daily newspaper which is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is based in Milan.

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Bohorodchany

Bohorodchany (Богородча́ни) is a rural settlement in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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Brilliant green (dye)

Brilliant green (also known as or) is one of the triarylmethane dyes.

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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) is a bureau within the United States Department of State.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Dolyna

Dolyna (Долина; Dolina; דאלינע) is a city in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, south-western Ukraine.

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Euromaidan

Euromaidan (translit), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv.

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European Bureau for Conscientious Objection

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) is a European umbrella organisation for national peace organisations supporting conscientious objectors.

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European Council

The European Council (informally EUCO) is a collegiate body (directorial system) that defines the overall political direction and priorities of the European Union.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The (FAZ; "Frankfurt General Newspaper") is a German newspaper founded in 1949.

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International Catalan Institute for Peace

The International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP) is a research, dissemination, and action organization created by the Parliament of Catalonia in 2007 to promote the culture of peace in Catalan society and internationally and make Catalonia play an active role as an agent of peace in the world.

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Irina Berezhna

Irina Berezhna ((ukr. transliteration) Iryna Hryhorivna Berezhna, (rus. transliteration) Irina Grygorievna Berezhnaya, Ірина Григорівна Бережна, Ирина Григорьевна Бережная) (13 August 1980 – 5 August 2017) was a Ukrainian politician who represented the Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, while serving as a People's Deputy from 2007 to 2014.

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Ivano-Frankivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk (Івано-Франківськ), formerly Stanyslaviv, Stanislav and Stanisławów, is a city in western Ukraine.

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Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (translit), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna (Івано-Франківщина) or simply Frankivshchyna, is an oblast (region) in western Ukraine.

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Jacobin (magazine)

Jacobin is an American socialist magazine based in New York.

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Joint Forces Operation (Ukraine)

Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone (translit), or ATO zone (translit), was a term used by the media, publicity, the government of Ukraine, and the OSCE and other foreign institutions to identify Ukrainian territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions (oblasts) under the control of Russian military forces and pro-Russian separatists.

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Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG) is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations.

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Kolomyia

Kolomyia, formerly known as Kolomea (translit,; Kołomyja; Kolomea; Colomeea; קאָלאָמיי|translit.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Luhansk

Luhansk (Луганськ), also known as Lugansk (Луганск), is a city in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine.

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Luhansk People's Republic

The Luhansk or Lugansk People's Republic (Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika,; abbreviated as LPR or LNR, ЛНР) is a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk.

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Lviv Oblast

Lviv Oblast (translit), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (Львівщина), is an oblast in western Ukraine.

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Meduza

Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek goddess Medusa) is a Russian- and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia.

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Myrotvorets

Myrotvorets or Mirotvorets (Миротворець) is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based website that publishes a running list, and sometimes personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be "enemies of Ukraine", or, as the website itself states, "whose actions have signs of crimes against the national security of Ukraine, peace, human security, and the international law". Ruslan Kotsaba and Myrotvorets are human rights abuses in Ukraine.

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Nadiya Savchenko

Nadiya Viktorivna Savchenko (Надія Вікторівна Савченко; born 11 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician, former Army aviation pilot in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and former People's Deputy of Ukraine. Ruslan Kotsaba and Nadiya Savchenko are Ukrainian victims of human rights abuses.

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National Academy for Public Administration

The National Academy of State Administration (Національна академія державного управління) of the President of Ukraine is the main state higher educational establishment in Ukraine for preparation and improvement of qualification of state service personnel and officials of local self-administration.

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National liberalism

National liberalism is a variant of liberalism, combining liberal policies and issues with elements of nationalism.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.

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NewsOne (Ukrainian TV channel)

NewsOne was a pro-Russian information and educational TV channel in Ukraine.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and protect human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

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Orange Revolution

The Orange Revolution (translit) was a series of protests, that lead to political upheaval in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005.

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Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc

The Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (Блок Наша Україна–Народна Самооборона, Russian: Блок Наша Украина – Народная Самооборона, Blok Nasha Ukraina – Narodnaya Samooborona, NUNS; until 2007 named Our Ukraine Bloc) was an electoral alliance active in Ukraine from 2001 until 2012, associated with former President Viktor Yushchenko.

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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe, a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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Party of Regions

The Party of Regions (Partiia rehioniv,; Partiya regionov) is a banned pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that became the largest party in Ukraine between 2006 and 2014.

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People's Deputy of Ukraine

A People's Deputy of Ukraine (translit) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by a popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada (the parliament of Ukraine).

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Prisoner of conscience

A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views.

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Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The prosecutor general of Ukraine (also procurator general of Ukraine, translit) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General (translit).

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Revolution of Dignity

The Revolution of Dignity (translit), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, the return to the 2004 Constitution of Ukraine, and the outbreak of the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War.

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Revolution on Granite

The Revolution on Granite (translit) was a student-led protest campaign that took place primarily in Kyiv and Western Ukraine in October 1990.

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Right of asylum

The right of asylum, sometimes called right of political asylum (asylum), is an ancient juridical concept, under which people persecuted by their own rulers might be protected by another sovereign authority, such as a second country or another entity which in medieval times could offer sanctuary.

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Right Sector

Right Sector (translit) is a loosely defined coalition of right-wing to far-right Ukrainian nationalist organizations. It originated in November 2013 as a right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several ultranationalist organizations at the Euromaidan revolt in Kyiv, where its street fighters participated in clashes with riot police.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russia-1

Russia-1 (Россия-1) is a state-owned Russian television channel, first aired on 14 February 1956 as Programme Two in the Soviet Union.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Security Service of Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (translit; abbreviated as SBU or SSU) is the main internal security agency of the Ukrainian government.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stepan Bandera

Stepan Andriyovych Bandera (Степа́н Андрі́йович Банде́ра,; Stepan Andrijowycz Bandera; 1 January 1909 – 15 October 1959) was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B. Bandera was born in Austria-Hungary, in Galicia, into the family of a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and grew up in Poland. Ruslan Kotsaba and Stepan Bandera are Antisemitism in Ukraine.

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Supreme Court of Ukraine

The Supreme Court of Ukraine (Verkhovnyi Sud Ukrainy) is the highest judicial body in the system of courts of general jurisdiction in Ukraine.

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Taras Prokhasko

Taras Prokhasko (Тарас Богданович Прохасько; born 16 May 1968) is a Ukrainian novelist, essayist and journalist.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tryzub (organization)

Tryzub (Тризуб) is a Ukrainian paramilitary organisation founded in 1993 by the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.

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Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union

All-Ukrainian Association of Public Organizations Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU) was founded by 15 public human rights organizations on 1 April 2004. Ruslan Kotsaba and Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union are Ukrainian human rights activists.

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Ukrainian Independent Information Agency

The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News (translit) is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency.

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Ukrainian National Forestry University

The National Forestry and Wood-Technology University of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Національний лісотехнічний університет України) is a Ukrainian university in Lviv.

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Ukrainian nationalism

Ukrainian nationalism is the promotion of the unity of Ukrainians as a people and the promotion of the identity of Ukraine as a nation state.

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Ukrainian News Agency

The Ukrainian News Agency (Informatsiine ahentstvo "Ukrainski Novyny") is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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Ukrainska Pravda

Ukrainska Pravda (lit) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum).

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Ukrinform

The National News Agency of Ukraine (Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform (Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine.

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Unified European Left Group

Unified European Left Group (UEL) is a group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, formed by 33 MPs from various leftwing parties in 16 countries.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Valeriya Lutkovska

Valeriya Volodymyrivna Lutkovska (Валерія Володимирівна Лутковська; born 20 January 1972) is a Ukrainian lawyer who was Ombudsman of Ukraine from April 2012 until April 2017.

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Vasyl Stus

Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 6, 1938 – September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. Ruslan Kotsaba and Vasyl Stus are Ukrainian human rights activists.

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Viktor Medvedchuk

Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk (Віктор Володимирович Медведчук; born 7 August 1954), also known as Viktor Vladimirovich Medvedchuk (Виктор Владимирович Медведчук), is a former Ukrainian lawyer, business oligarch, and politician who has lived in exile in Russia since September 2022 after being handed over to Russia in a prisoner exchange.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.

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Vladyslav Kaskiv

Vladyslav Volodymyrovych Kaskiv (Владислав Володимирович Каськів; born 1 December 1973) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician currently serving as a member of the Zakarpattia Oblast Council from the proportional list of Opposition Platform — For Life since 2020.

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has been serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019, including during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine ongoing since 2022.

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