Olga Golovina

Editorial Coordinator

Olga Golovina

Olga Golovina is editorial coordinator of IWPR’s Ukraine Justice Report. With more than 20 years experience working as a journalist and editor in Ukrainian print and TV, she has covered a wide range of stories across Europe, Russia and the Caucasus.

Stories by the Author

Crimea, an internationally recognised Ukrainian territory with special status, was annexed by the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Russia guilty of systematic violations of human rights in Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula.
Crimea, an internationally recognised Ukrainian territory with special status, was annexed by the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Russia guilty of systematic violations of human rights in Ukraine’s occupied Crimean peninsula. © Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images

Landmark European Ruling Over Crimea Offers Fresh Hope

Decision by top European court provides basis for resolving hundreds of individual Ukrainian cases and could lead to compensation.

23 Jul 24
Children ride a roundabout in a play park next to destroyed buildings on November 14, 2022 in Borodyanka , Ukraine. Russia is believed to have deported tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to its own territory, subjecting them to indoctrination, forcing them to take Russian citizenship and often putting them up for adoption.
Children ride a roundabout in a play park next to destroyed buildings on November 14, 2022 in Borodyanka , Ukraine. Russia is believed to have deported tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to its own territory, subjecting them to indoctrination, forcing them to take Russian citizenship and often putting them up for adoption. © Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Returning Ukraine’s Children

Legal experts consider Russia’s wide-scale illegal displacement and deportation of minors to be a war crime.

18 Jun 24
On April 15th, the Reckoning Project, an initiative of Ukrainian and international reporters and lawyers to document war crimes, submitted a criminal complaint to the Argentine Federal Judiciary under the universal jurisdiction. The case concerns the torture of a Ukrainian civilian by Russian forces during the occupation in 2022.
On April 15th, the Reckoning Project, an initiative of Ukrainian and international reporters and lawyers to document war crimes, submitted a criminal complaint to the Argentine Federal Judiciary under the universal jurisdiction. The case concerns the torture of a Ukrainian civilian by Russian forces during the occupation in 2022. © Anna Tsyhyma

Argentina to Consider Ukrainian Case

“It is important for us to show that crimes have no borders and Russian criminals must be caught everywhere.”

8 May 24
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