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In March Hromadske and Oleg Sentsov’s cousin Nataliya Kaplan traveled to the town of Labytnangi, located on the Yamal peninsula in the Russian Arctic. Here, in the White Bear colony, on May 14, Sentsov announced a hunger strike.​ His sole demand for the end of it is the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners being held in Russian prisons.

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