Federal Penitentiary Service announces new rules for defence of human rights: members of Public Oversight Commissions to become mere onlookers

4 June 2023 by Ekaterina Trifonova  Source: Nezavisimaya gazeta The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia [FPS] has established a procedure whereby members of Public Oversight Commissions (POCs) may visit penal…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: ‘They’re trying to break Navalny as per the Gulag, but if he survives, the hangmen will stand down.’

4 June 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: The Insider Today, one can only dream of the “wild” 1990s, when the country had no political prisoners. The Kremlin and its lackeys…

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Podcast: Then & Now #7 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Boris Kuznetsov

5 June 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the seventh episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas.   In recent weeks, politically motivated trials and lengthy prison…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 308: 8.5 years’ imprisonment for setting fire to a mat

3 June 2023 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: There is no animosity toward Ukraine and no patriotic surge. Reporting from Profsoyuznaya Street, where a drone landed this morning

30 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek and Slava Trufanov  Source: Vot-Tak-TV At six o’clock in the morning, a drone landed at 18 Profsoyuznaya Street, block 6. It broke through the…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Peacemakers line up at the Kremlin Gates

29 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV How do we stop Russia’s war against Ukraine? This topic has become fashionable in international relations. Just who hasn’t signed up to…

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Weekly Update [week-ending 26 May 2023]

https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/ Our publications from the past week https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ovd-info-307/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/shablinsky-24/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/international-memorial-association/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/perm-centre-for-historical-memory-5/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podrabinek-114/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/perm-centre-for-historical-memory-4/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/witnesses-against-war-23/

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Statement on the searches of civil activists in Perm 

20 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory On 19 May 2023, law enforcement officials came to the apartments of our esteemed colleagues: Nadezhda Agisheva, Tatyana Margolina, Svetlana Makovetskaya,…

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Declaration of the International Memorial Association

16 May 2023 Declaration of the International Memorial Association Source: International Memorial Association The International Memorial Society was disbanded by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on 28 February…

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The Deportation of the Crimean Tatars – 79 Years ago

18 May 2023  Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory For the anniversary on 18 May, Aleksandr Murtazaev, a Memorial volunteer, talks about the deportation of Crimean Tatars and his own…

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