20 June 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chairof the national NGO For Human Rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Echo of Moscow] Quarantine restrictions in…
30 June 2020 By Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Luke Harding, Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West, London, Guardian Faber, 2020. £14.99p. ISBN 978-1-783-35205-0. In his…
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/week-ending-3-july-2020/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/shlosberg-2/ Translated by Elizabeth Teague https://www.rightsinrussia.org/kalyapin-4/ Translated by Verity Hemp, Graham Jones, Joanne Reynolds, Nicky Brown, John Tokolish, Matthew Quigley and Simon Cosgrove https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ponomarev-15/ Translated by Anna Bowles https://www.rightsinrussia.org/dewhirst-2/
12 June 2020 By Julia Vishnevetskaya Extracts Source: Radio Svoboda Igor Kalyapin, 52, head of the Committee against Torture, has gone through all the social dramas of post-Soviet Russia: in…
18 June 2020 Lev Shlosberg, human rights defender, public figure, member of the Pskov Regional Assembly, journalist, and laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group award for human rights Source: Moscow…
Constitution Russia’s forced referendum Over the past month, the Kremlin’s proposed constitutional referendum has dominated the political agenda in Russia. The proposed changes, among other points, would allow President Vladimir…
This week our guest is Olga Sadovskaya of the Nizhny Novgorod human rights NGO, Committee against Torture, which is led by Igor Kalyapin. Olga Sadovskaya is the head of the…
27 June 2020 Hi. It’s Aleksei Yurtaev. We’ve completed the first season of our Russia Shuts Down podcast. Over seven episodes of the podcast, we explained how our country has…
Week-ending 26 June 2020 Photo by Evgeniy Isaev (Moscow) via Wikipedia Petr Verzilov: 'The description of this situation leaves no doubt that we were in a situation of a classic…
Week-ending 26 June 2020 The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum has highlighted the plight of Anastasia Shevchenko, whose trial for involvement in the Open Russia movement, an unregistered Russian association banned…