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Mirotvorets Adds Data on 25 More Toddlers as Ukraine Charges Kirkorov in Absentia

Human-rights scrutiny intensified after Russia’s civil council asked the UN to push for removal of minors’ records from the Ukrainian database.

Overview

  • The website added personal data for 25 children aged two to three, listing accusations such as conscious border violations and encroachment on Ukraine’s sovereignty.
  • The latest additions include 19 three-year-olds and six two-year-olds, following earlier reports that more than 70 toddlers were listed over a three‑day span last week.
  • Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights sent a formal appeal to UN human-rights chief Volker Türk seeking the deletion of minors’ profiles.
  • Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s office said the SBU has charged Russian pop star Philipp Kirkorov in absentia, while records show he has been in the database since August 2015 for alleged illegal entry to Ukraine and commercial activity in Crimea.
  • Mirotvorets has previously published journalists’ contact details, drawing threats and criticism from OSCE media-freedom representative Dunya Mijatovic and Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, and some minors’ profiles removed in past years have been restored.