Russia Runs a Hidden Prison System for Ukrainian Detainees—In Crimea

Trump’s Revenge Fantasy • Trump as a Threat to Reproductive Rights • More Bizarre Trump Comments [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Russia Runs a Hidden Prison System for Ukrainian Detainees—In Crimea Hello from the Hive newsroom. Ten years ago, Vladimir Putin took Crimea from Ukraine. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has used Crimea to house a labyrinth of Russian-run filtration camps, detention centers, and torture chambers, war crimes experts and human rights monitors say. For VF, Ghanna Mamonova, with the help of the Reckoning Project, [chronicles]( detainee testimonies to describe conditions in six processing centers and prisons in Crimea, where some 4,000 Crimean residents are said to have gone through interrogations, arrests, torture, and prolonged imprisonment over the last decade. Elsewhere, Molly Jong-Fast [reminds]( us that Republicans reportedly plotting how to prosecute Joe Biden and his family, if Donald Trump is reelected, is not normal behavior: “None of this is how American democracy is supposed to work. Trump is not a normal candidate, despite how the media often covers him.” She notes that, while there is no guidebook for covering authoritarianism in America, with every new [apocalyptic threat]( the presumptive GOP nominee makes, the media should take him “literally and seriously.” Plus, Bess Levin [updates]( us on Trump’s latest about-face. On Monday, the ex-president said he’d leave abortion policy for states to decide, while also bragging that he is “proudly the person responsible” for the Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade. The Biden campaign warned that Trump would absolutely sign any abortion ban that comes to his desk in a second term. Thanks for reading. [Image may contain: Art, Collage, Painting, Person, and People]( [Russia Runs a Hidden Prison System for Ukrainian Detainees—In Crimea]( By [Ghanna Mamonova, via The Reckoning Project]( [Human rights monitors claim that occupation forces engage in torture and prolonged captivity in a sprawling penal network.]( [Read more button](   [None of This Is Normal]( By [Molly Jong-Fast]( [Donald Trump’s 2024 bid is an antidemocratic revenge fantasy being treated like a conventional political campaign.]( [Read more button](   [Trump Says Abortion Should Be Left to the States, in Cynical Attempt to Convince Voters He Won’t Help Gut Reproductive Rights in a Second Term]( By [Bess Levin]( [He also said he was “proudly...responsible” for killing Roe v. Wade.]( [Read more button](   [“It’s Been Soiled”: Trump Bizarrely Suggests Biden Has S--t on Oval Office Desk at Billionaire Fundraiser]( By [Bess Levin]( [He also pledged to keep attendees’ taxes low and doubled down on his desire to have immigrants from “nice” countries, like Norway and Denmark, come to the US.]( [Read more button](   [From the Archive: Donald Trump Did the Only Thing You’re Not Supposed to Do During an Eclipse]( By [Erika Harwood]( [The sun is hard to resist.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast