35-year-old Serhiy Lytvynov remains imprisoned in Russia four years after a fateful tooth inflammation led to him becoming one of the first and unlikeliest of Russia’s Ukrainian political prisoners. Following the tragically premature death of his lawyer Viktor Parshutkin in March 2017, he has also become the most abandoned of all political prisoners.
Lytvynov is imprisoned near Magadan in the Far East of Russia, in the area of the Soviet Gulag camps. According to Stanislav Ogorovy, Ukraine’s Ambassador Diana Ivanova has only recently been able to visit him, although she had long sought permission to see him.
