Oleksandr Kolchenko is a left-wing activist who participated in student, trade union, ecological, anti-fascist and anarchist movements in Ukrainian Crimea. Like film director Oleg Sentsov, Kolchenko actively opposed the Russian annexation of the peninsula. The two were detained by Russian security forces in Crimea on March 10, 2014.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Hromadske: Political prisoner Kolchenko’s interview from inside Russian prison
A picture shows the Lefortovo prison on Jan. 8, 2019, in the Russian capital and largest city Moscow.
