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ITF condemns Black Sea vessel attacks and calls for protection of seafarers

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/ Russia ITF condemns Black Sea vessel attacks and calls for protection of seafarers [ITF] 16-12-2025


/ Russia Demand for justice from Russia one year after death of Victoria Roshchyna [EFJ] 19-09-2025


/ Russia ITUC solidarity with Ukrainian trade unions as Russian attacks intensify [ITUC] 01-09-2025


/ Russia Three newspaper buildings hit by Russian drones [EFJ] 01-09-2025


/ Russia Russian strikes continue to cripple Ukraine’s mines and communities [IndustriALL] 22-08-2025



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Russia ITF condemns Black Sea vessel attacks and calls for protection of seafarers 2025-12-16 [ITF]

Russia Two Ukrainian journalists killed by drone attack in Kramatorsk 2025-10-24 [IFJ]

Russia Demand for justice from Russia one year after death of Victoria Roshchyna 2025-09-19 [EFJ]

Russia Fascists: Notes from a frontline factory in eastern Ukraine 2025-09-07 [Snyder substack]

Russia Three newspaper buildings hit by Russian drones 2025-09-01 [EFJ]

Russia ITUC solidarity with Ukrainian trade unions as Russian attacks intensify 2025-09-01 [ITUC]

Russia Russian Missile Strike Hits US-Owned Factory in Western Ukraine With 600 Workers Inside 2025-08-24 [United24Media]

Russia Russian strikes continue to cripple Ukraine’s mines and communities 2025-08-22 [IndustriALL]

Russia Concerns grow for 3 OSCE workers jailed since shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 2025-07-31 [AP]

Russia Abandoned Russian and Ukrainian fishers finally receive wages after three-year ordeal 2025-06-19 [ITF]

Egypt From students to soldiers: how Russia sends Egyptians to the Ukrainian front line 2025-05-27 [Equal Times]

Russia Shireen Abu Akleh Prize awarded to Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya 2025-05-13 [IFJ]

Russia WPFD 2025: How can we better support Russian and Belarusian journalists in exile? 2025-05-05 [EFJ]

Four journalists sentenced to jail on charges of “extremism” 2025-04-17 [IFJ]

USA US shutdown of RFE/RL broadcasting in Russian language further undermines the public’s right to know 2025-04-11 [IFJ]

Channel One journalist killed by a landmine near Ukrainian border 2025-03-28 [EFJ]

Russia Three Russian media workers killed in rocket attack 2025-03-26 [EFJ]

Putin’s Russia is cracking down on universities and academics 2025-03-21 [Green Left Weekly]

Russian trade unionist: ‘Even silence is viewed as dissent’ 2025-03-18 [Green Left Weekly]

Ukraine ITF condemns killing of seafarers in Russian missile attack 2025-03-18 [ITF]

Xenophobic Crackdown on Central Asian Migrants 2025-03-18 [Human Rights Watch]

Russia Three Years of Ukraine War: A Russian Trade Unionist Viewpoint 2025-03-15 [UNIA Workzeitung]

IFJ and EFJ condemn expulsion of Le Monde correspondent 2025-02-07 [IFJ]

Authorities prosecute seven foreign journalists covering the war in the Kursk region 2025-02-03 [IFJ]

Russia Izvestia's correspondent killed by drone attack 2025-01-07 [IFJ]

Ukraine Urgent investigation needed into death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity 2024-10-14 [EFJ]

Government official threatens foreign journalist covering the war in the Kursk region 2024-10-07 [EFJ]

Government official threatens foreign journalist covering the war in the Kursk region 2024-10-06 [IFJ]

Ukraine The global labour movement must hold Russia accountable for war crimes against Ukrainian workers 2024-10-01 [GLC]

Russia Mass spoofing of European media outlets highlights risks of pro-Russian disinformation 2024-10-01 [EFJ]

Russia COSATU Statement on 13th BRICS Trade Unions Forum (BTUF) scheduled for 7 to 8 September in Sochi, Russia 2024-09-05 [COSATU]

Russia British media worker killed in Kramatorsk strike 2024-08-28 [EFJ]

Authorities prosecute five foreign journalists covering the war in the Kursk region 2024-08-23 [IFJ]

EFJ condemns threats against RAI journalists 2024-08-19 [EFJ]

YouTube crackdown threatens press freedom and expands online censorship 2024-08-15 [EFJ]

USA Four journalists released as part of a prisoner swap 2024-08-03 [IFJ]

Russia Prisoner swap involving several journalists under way in Turkey 2024-08-02 [EFJ]

Russia's Crackdown on Migrant Workers Backfires 2024-08-02 [Newsweek]

EFJ demands the release of political prisoner Evan Gershkovich 2024-07-23 [EFJ]

Russia jails US-Russian journalist Kurmasheva for over 6 years 2024-07-23 [EFJ]

Russia Journalists in Russian captivity must be released 2024-07-20 [IFJ]

Russia IndustriALL Global Union and IndustriAll Europe condemn recent Russian attack on Ukraine 2024-07-16 [IndustriALL]

Russia outlaws The Moscow Times as 'undesirable organisation' 2024-07-12 [EFJ]

Russia ITF condemns bombing of Ukrainian children's hospital 2024-07-10 [ITF]

Russia ITUC condemns Russian attack on children's hospital 2024-07-09 [ITUC]

Russia Barbaric and heart-wrenching: UNI condemns Russian strike on Kyiv children’s hospital 2024-07-09 [UNI Global Union]

Russia ILO expresses 'concern at the continuing aggression by the Russian Federation, aided by the Belarusian Government, against Ukraine' 2024-06-21 [ILO]

Journalist Artem Kriger jailed on charges of extremism 2024-06-21 [EFJ]

Russia Two Russian journalists killed within three days in occupied Donetsk region 2024-06-19 [IFJ]

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4-01-1905 Strike in St Petersburg's Putilov works spreads. Becomes a general strike within 3 days and helped begin the 1905 Russian Revolution. [more]

11-01-1928 Stalin banishes Leon Trotsky to Alma-Ata. Next year, he will be deported from the USSR altogether. [more]

16-01-1905 12,000 workers on the Poutilov construction site strike in solidarity with two workers dismissed for their membership if the "legal" association of Zoubatov. [more]

22-01-1905 Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg as the Tsar's troops shoot down hundreds of protesting workers. [more]

22-01-1917 Strike of 50,000 workers to commemorate the "Bloody Sunday" of 1905. [more]