Journey for Truth Project: The Untold Stories of Russian Crimes

Russia has an historic track record of atrocities perpetrated in Ukraine: the Holodomor state-sponsored famine, the Stalinist repressions and executions of Ukraine’s intelligentsia, repeated waves of mass deportations of civilians to Central Asia and Siberia, including the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people. Years before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainians had already been subjected to the Kremlin’s crimes on Kyiv’s Maidan, and in the torture cellars of occupied eastern Ukraine and Crimea. 

Despite the rules set out in international treaties such as the Rome Statute, the Geneva Conventions, and other international laws and agreements, many of which Russia is a signatory to, the Putin regime overtly mocks and violates these rules. Indeed, the unprovoked war launched by Russia on February 24, 2022, is the largest attack on a sovereign European country since World War II. The crime of aggression has resulted in genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes: the murder of civilians; the unlawful seizure and deportation of children; widespread torture and rape; strikes on grain depots, distribution hubs, and energy infrastructure; bombings of hospitals and religious and cultural institutions; and a catastrophic environmental “ecocide.”

The Journey for Truth Project: The Untold Stories of Russian Crimes — a special initiative of the Peterson Literary Fund at BCU Foundation— is a designated fund focusing on the dissemination of fact-based information about the myriad crimes committed by Russia. It supports print and online publications, documentary films, scholarly research, international conferences, and other public forums.

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