1551: Oleksandra Romantsova
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/10/16
2015: “People are understanding their position in society in a different way… human rights are their rights, democracy is their democracy.”
2016: “Almost no one, except for some of our fellow human rights defenders, preoccupies with passing this procedure.”
2022: “It’s just that democracy helps win wars… we now see motivated people who are responsible and fight for their state.”
2022: “Ordinary people are the biggest power in the world. Just use your power!”
2022: “Perhaps if the world had paid attention to the war crimes in Chechnya from the start, we wouldn’t have the war in Ukraine today.”
2023: “Defending human rights is my system of values.”
2024: “Elections are a public discussion. But a third of the population is connected with the military. Another third is displaced.”
2024: “They kidnap people and detain them in basements. Eighty-seven percent of the people we speak to started their first day of detention with torture.”
2024: “It’s a continuous crime. They’re trying to indoctrinate this idea of a strong Putin, a strong [Russian] state, all of this, right from the beginning of childhood — as early as kindergarten.”
2025: “We experience the terror of Bucha every day in the occupied territories.”
2025: “It’s not just Putin who’s responsible. It’s the whole system under him.”
2025: “The issue of nuclear safety concerns every ordinary person.”
2025: “Democracy is not only your rights, but also your duty — to build, defend, and care for your country.”
2025: “We do not want to be puppets. We want to be democratic forces building our own state.”
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