We can help ‪#‎FreeSavchenko‬ and the other hostages of the Kremlin

We can help ‪#‎FreeSavchenko‬ and the other hostages of the Kremlin by getting our protest actions into the press. Join to learn how before the next #FreeSavchenko day on 21-22 March. Please, send you application #FreeSavchenko
Nadiya Savchenko 13 березень о 22:53 https://www.facebook.com/nadiyasavchenko1/posts/435764253300881

#FreeSavchenko| Urgent media outreach workshop | Терміновий воркшоп по роботі з медіа

At the last #FreeSavchenko day of support on 9 March 2016, over 130 rallies took place worldwide. We think this is awesome momentum and support for Nadiya Savchenko, and would like to thank every person that showed their support for her. The trial will resume on 21-22 March and the verdict will be pronounced then. Presumably, it will be 23 years of prison. Nadiya has vowed to resume her dry hunger strike then.	На останньому дні підтримки Надії Савченко, більше 130 акцій відбулися по всьому світу. Ми вважаємо, що це прекрасний імпульс, і хочемо подякувати кожній людині, що висловила їй свою підтримку. Суд відновиться 21-22 березня, і тоді буде проголошений вирок. Ймовірно, це буде 23 років в’язниці. Надія пообіцяла поновити сухе голодування в цей день.
Nadiya is not the only Ukrainian political prisoner illegally jailed in Russia, she is the best-known one. There are at least 25 others imprisoned at the moment (follow their fates at the #LetMyPeopleGo campaign page). However, she has become a symbol of them all. Only international pressure can get them released. We can help create that pressure. But for this we need to get Nadiya Savchenko and the other prisoners of the Kremlin into the press. You can do that by expanding your media outreach at your Ukrainian rallies around the world.	Надія – не єдиний український політв’язень, що незаконно утримується в Росії, хоча вона найвідоміша серед них. Наразі є принаймні 25 інших ув’язнених (слідкуйте за їхніми долями на сторінці #LetMyPeopleGo). Але вона стала символом їх усіх. Тільки міжнародний тиск допоможе їх звільнити. Ми можемо допомогти створити цей тиск. Але для цього, ми мусимо змусити пресу писати про Надію Савченко та інших політв’язнів. Ви можете це зробити, якщо збільшите свою взаємодію із журналістами на своїх проукраїнських акціях по всьому світу.
That is why Euromaidan Press with the help of the Ukrainian World Congress is having an urgent workshop on sharing best practices of media outreach (see our previous instructions here). Share your positive press experience or get inspired by other activists like you. Media professionals that would like to see the Ukrainian topics being raised in the press are welcome too.	Тому Euromaidan Press з допомогою Світового Конгресу Українців влаштовують терміновий воркшоп по обміну найкращими практиками роботи із медіа (дивіться наші попередні інструкції тут(англійською)). Поділіться своїми позитивним досвідом роботи із пресою та надихніться іншими активістами, як ви. Журналісти, які хочуть бачити українські теми більше освітленими в пресі, також запрошуються до участі.
Please apply via the form below. Deadline is March 17. The approximate dates for conducting the workshop are March 18-20.	Будь ласка, долучайтеся за допомогою форми, наведеної нижче. Дедлайн – 17 березня. Приблизні дати проведення воркшопу – 18-20 березня.

Read more: Nadiya’s case: why the world calls to #FreeSavchenko

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#FreeSavchenko media coverage workshop application form/Аплікаційна форма для воркшопу по медіа-покриттю акцій #FreeSavchenko

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You represent... / Ви представляєте... *

Activist group/ Активістську групу

Media/ Медіа

Expert/ Експерт

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I want to take part in the workshop.../ Я хочу взяти участь у воркшопі, щоби... *

To learn how to get my first media coverage/ Навчитися, як в перший раз отримати медіа-освітлення

To learn how to get better media coverage/ Навчитися, як отримувати краще медіа-освітлення

To share my positive experience as an activist/ Поділитися своїм позитивним досвідом як активіст(ка)

To give activists tips as a media representative/ Дати активістам поради як представник медіа

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What experience can share with other participants? / Чим можете поділитися із іншими учасниками?

The workshop will focus on sharing approaches that work between participants/ У воркшопі учасники обміняються прийомами, що працюють

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Will you organize a #FreeSavchenko demonstration on 21-22 March? / Чи будете Ви організовувати акцію #FreeSavchenko 21-22 березня? *

Yes/ Так

No/ Ні

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What languages do you speak freely? / Якими мовами вільно володієте?

We need this to plan the language in which the workshop will be conducted / Нам потрібно це знати, щоби визначити мови, якими можна провести воркшоп

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#freedomSavchenko - Russia is a third world state with a totalitarian regime

#freedomSavchenko - Russia is a third world state with a totalitarian regime

Editor's Note: The following is an English-language translation of imprisoned Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko’s last statement to the court, which her attorneys published on March 3. The judges in the Russian court postponed the court session at which Savchenko was to give her statement until March 9. Savchenko is imprisoned in Russia on bogus murder charges, and prosecutors are demanding a 23-year prison sentence for her. Savchenko started a dry hunger strike on March 4.
http://freedomsavchenko.blogspot.com/2016/03/freedomsavchenko-russia-is-third-world.html

Ukrainian airforce officer Nadia Savchenko stands inside a defendants' cage during a hearing at the Basmanny district court in Moscow on March 26, 2015.
Photo by AFP

I do not acknowledge either fault, or the sentence, or the Russian court. There will be no appeal in the case of a guilty verdict. I want the entire civilized democratic world to understand that Russia is a third world state with a totalitarian regime and a tyrant dictator, where human rights, as well as international law, are ignored.

This is an absurd situation, when those who kidnap people and torture them pretend afterwards that have the right to judge them. How can we talk about a fair court here? There are no (proper) courts and investigations in Russia! There is only a farce by the Kremlin’s puppets, and I think it is unnecessary to waste time in my life taking part in it!

This is why there will be no appeal, but there will be the following: after the verdict, I will extend my hunger strike for 10 more days, until the verdict comes into force, regardless of whether there is a translation of the verdict into Ukrainian, as they can drag their feet with the translation. In 10 days, I will announce a hunger strike without water, and then Russia will have no more than 10 days to return me to Ukraine, where I was taken captive. And I don’t care how they explain it. I heard (Ukrainian President) Petro Poroshenko has good diplomatic skills. Well, I hope his diplomatic skills will be enough to negotiate with one idiot. As he promised my mother that I would come home for the May holidays of 2015.

And while (they) bargain over me, life will be leaving me, and Russia will anyway return me to Ukraine – alive or dead. But will return!

And through all these 10 days my sister will be standing day and night near the prison gate, waiting to see whether I will be released or carried out. If you imprison her – my mother will take her place, she is 77 years old. Will you imprison her? Then my friend will take her place, and after them one Ukrainian after another. Remember – you won’t stuff all of them in here! And while my compatriots are standing here, ordinary honest Russians from the neighborhood will start bringing them hot tea, sandwiches and warm blankets, as each of them understands that any of their children could find themselves in my place – in this prison of nations named Russia.

That’s how Maidans (revolutions) start! Do you need something like that? It scares you as much as fire does! So the Kremlin would do better to return me to Ukraine soon, and alive!

And the entire democratic world would do better to learn the lessons of history in time, to remember that at some point Europe tolerated (Adolf) Hitler, (the United States of) America was not firm enough, and it led to the World War II. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin – is a tyrant with imperial aspirations combined with a Napoleon (Bonaparte) and Hitler Complex. The bear does not understand human language; it only understands the language of force. So, if we don’t become more drastic and don’t define our proper priorities in time, we will soon have World War III.

As a politician, I won’t lend a hand to Russia in the political arena. It is useless to lend a hand to someone who held you in handcuffs, and your nation in chains. In making any political decision, I will always consider how it will influence ordinary people, both in Ukraine and Russia. Because in Russia, despite everything, there are many honest, kind and miserable people.

http://freedomsavchenko.blogspot.com/2016/03/freedomsavchenko-russia-is-third-world.html

Original: Kyivpost

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