Research Centre for Crime and Armed Conflicts
Understanding War and Crime
I recently came across a link to a text to which I wish to draw the attention of everyone who works on Russia, war and culture. It is a substantial…
Three statistical series – the population of the Russian Federation, the number of prisoners, and the losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine – are usually analysed separately;…
A few days ago, Vinnytsia hosted a meeting of the working group on harmonising the draft laws on civilian firearms with EU law. The discussion concerned the draft law “On…
The well-known Russian politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who presents himself as a member of the Russian opposition, has just published a Facebook post linking to his opinion piece in The Washington…
On 18 September 2026, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a thematic report prepared on the basis of the work of the United…
The Russian authorities have officially announced plans to build an entire complex of new prisons. By 2035, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation intends to create seven “innovative…
The absolute prohibition of torture is an unconditional and immeasurably important idea of modern constitutionalism and international human rights law. It is not merely a norm enshrined in Article 3…
This paper examines informal prison hierarchies in contemporary Europe as sites of political power, social ordering, and geopolitical contestation, with particular focus on the Russian Federation’s deliberate weaponisation of carceral…
On 28 August 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared once again, in yet another interview, that all questions concerning Ukraine must be settled between Washington and Moscow “patsan-style” –…
The countries of Eastern Europe constitute a unique setting for studying profound transformations of social control. In no other region of the world has the transition from one model of…