Emergency Contacts for Journalists Covering Events in Crimea

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have joined up with the International Committee of the Red Cross and its affiliates in Ukraine and Russia to issue a series of emergency contacts for journalists covering events in Crimea.


If you need to make emergency contact, to report a disappearance or arrest, please call:

- The International Committee of the Red Cross
24-hour Hotline on +41 79 217 32 84; or +41 79 217 32 85
Email: [email protected]
Hotline website: http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/publication/p0394.htm

- All-Ukraine Trade Union "Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine (IMTUU)
Exec Secretary, Oksana Vynnychuk, on +38 50 356 57 58, or at [email protected]

President Yuriy Lukanov, on + 380 50 353 67 89, or at [email protected]

- National Union of Journalists of Ukraine – NUJU
Assistant to the Chair, Oleksii Boiko, on +380 44 234 4960, or at [email protected]

- The Russia Union of Journalists (RUJ)
Secretary, Pavel Gutiontov, on +7 916 903 0787, or at [email protected]
International Secretary, Nadia Azhgikhina, on +7 916 212 43 07, or at [email protected]