Inter­na­tio­nal Support of Conscien­tious Objec­tors and Deserters

PRESS RELEASE • Russian Reservist Eventually Granted Asylum in Finland ...

... — Decision Based on Military-legal and Political Risks

13.02.2026 • A Russian citizen, R., has been granted international protection in Finland following more than three years of examination of his case — from September 2022 until November 2025.

WEBINAR • EUROPE IS REARMING ONCE AGAIN: IS OUR RIGHT TO CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION AT RISK?

WHEN?
9 December 2025, Tuesday
17:30 CET

LINK?
us02web.zoom.us

«Connection e.V.», together with «Pax Christi International», WRI, QCEA and «Un Ponte Per», is organising a thematic webinar to shed light on how civil society is mobilising against the militarisation of Europe and, in particular, supporting the right to conscientious objection.

Supreme Court disrupts Ukraine’s accession to EU by repressions for faith and pacifism

(27.10.2025) In the midst of an international scandal around the imprisonment and torture of conscientious objectors, the judges showed a little mercy to Vitalii Kryushenko without due acquittal, but did not even mention it on the court’s website, as the policy of repression for faith seems to remain unchanged. The Joint Chamber of the Cassation Criminal Court of the Supreme Court denied a cassation complaint against the sentence to a prisoner of conscience Vitaliy Kryushenko, but suspended the sentence and released him from prison with one-year probationary term.

«CONNECTION e.V.» ON TOUR ⸻ DAY 1

On Monday, October 20th, 2025, a public event took place in Vienna with Sasza Belik and Artem Klyga. It was dedicated to the topic of deserters and conscientious objectors from Russia, as well as the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine on Europe.