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Stanislav Aseyev is a journalist and writer, an author of philosophical and surrealistic prose and poems. After the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he remained in Donetsk in order to describe the reality surrounding him objectively while anonymously working with many leading Ukrainian media under the pseudonym Stanislav Vasin. In June 2017, he was arrested by so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militants and thrown into Izolyatsia prison. Later, in his collection In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas, he describes the early period of the Russian military aggression in Ukraine’s east from 2015-2017. Aseyev wrote the documentary book The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, the most important evidence of the atrocities of the DPR militants in the prisons under their control. The book has been translated into many languages, including English by Zenia Tompkins and Nina Murray. He is actively engaged in human rights and educational activities.
Ihor Kozlovsky is a Ukrainian scientist, religious scholar, has PhD in historical sciences, poet, prose writer, public activist. Senior Researcher, Department of Religious Studies, Institute of Philosophy named after G.S. Skovoroda of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. President of the Center of Religious Science Research and International Spiritual Relations. Member of the Expert Council on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. Actively participate in Donetsk Euromaidan and Interfaith Prayer Marathon for the unity of Ukraine (March-November 2014, Donetsk). January 27, 2016 was captured by militants so-called "Donetsk Peoples Republic" and was in captivity almost 2 years (700 days) until December 27, 2017. The author of poetry collections and prose works, as well as more than 50 scientific books and over 200 articles in dictionaries, encyclopedias, scientific periodicals. He actively advocates the release of political prisoners in Russia and in the occupied territories of Donbass and Crimea.
27 июн 2024
