#russianwar

my last post about ukrainian soldiers and soup had the most notes ever. it was just a funny picture i found on twitter but the most beautiful things on tumblr happen in reblogs: @julibernardo showed us a charity which supplies soup in ukraine and @lovingsomeplants went to donate. a year ago i drove a bus full of donated food to ukrainian border. so what World Central Kitchen is doing hits home. just went and donated myself.

The Constitution of Russia forbids arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment. Chapter 2, Article 21 of the constitution states, "No one may be subjected to torture, violence or any other harsh or humiliating treatment or punishment."[97][98] However, in practice, Russian police, Federal Security Service[99][100] and prison and jail guards are regularly observed practicing torture with impunity - including beatings with many different types of batons, sticks and truncheons, water battles, sacks with sand etc., the "Elephant Method" which is beating a victim wearing a gas mask with cut airflow and the "Supermarket Method" which is the same but with a plastic bag on head, electric shocks including to genitals, nose, and ears (known as "Phone call to Putin"), binding in stress positions, cigarette burns,[101] needles and electric needles hammered under nails,[102] prolonged suspension, sleep deprivation, food deprivation, rape, penetration with foreign objects, asphyxiation - in interrogating arrested suspects.[102][1][6][7][103] Another torture method is the "Television" which involves forcing the victim to stand in a mid-squat with extended arms in front of them holding a stool or even two stools, with the seat facing them. Former serviceman Andrei Sychev had to have both legs and genitals amputated after this torture due to gangrene caused by cut bloodflow. Other torture methods include the "Rack" or "Stretch" which involves hanging a victim on hands tied behind the back, the "Refrigerator" which involves subjecting a naked victim sometimes doused in cold water to subzero temperatures, the "Furnace" where the victim is left in heat in a small space and "Chinese torture" where the feet of the victim laying on a tabletop are beaten with clubs. In 2000, human rights Ombudsman Oleg Mironov estimated that 50% of prisoners with whom he spoke claimed to have been tortured. Amnesty International reported that Russian military forces in Chechnya engage in torture.[97]

Radio Svoboda ("Radio Freedom", part of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) reported that an unofficial movement "Russia the Beaten" was created in Moscow by human rights activists and journalists who "suffered from beatings in numerous Russian cities".[114] In June 2013, construction worker Martiros Demerchyan claimed that he was tortured by Sochi police. Demerchyan, who spent seven weeks constructing housing for the 2014 Winter Olympics, was accused by his supervisor of stealing wiring. Demerchyan denied the allegations but when the victim returned to work to collect his pay, he was met by several police officers who beat him all night, breaking two of his teeth and sexually assaulted him with a crow bar. He was treated in hospital, but doctors told his family they had found no serious injuries on his body.[115] Torture and humiliation are also widespread in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The term dedovshchina refers to systematic abuse of new conscripts by more long-serving soldiers.[116] Many young men are killed, raped or commit suicide every year because of it.[117] It is reported that some young male conscripts are forced to work as prostitutes for "outside clients".[118] Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia works to protect rights of young soldiers.

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My documentary about the russian occupation of Bucha is finally finished. The film centers around the church choir of St. Andrews-Church. That church were a mass grave had to be made during the russian occupation.

As a filmmaker with German-Ukrainian roots, this project is dear to my heart and must've been the most emotional production I've ever conducted. It was an Indie-production as well.