Memorial Human Rights Centre: Are the amendments to the Constitution being unnecessarily imposed or are they much needed?

4 February 2020Statement by Memorial Human Rights CentreSource: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial Human Rights Centre supports the proposal by the Yabloko party to set up a working group of independent experts to…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin 138: Police in jail, Ingushetia, a kidnapping in Chechnya

1 February 2020   OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 137: Hizb ut-Tahrir, prosecutions in Ingushetia and a threat of paralysis

25 January 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

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Quote for the Week: Jeanne Cavelier: ‘The testimony given by Rashid Maysigov spotlights the disgraceful practices used by the police against critical journalists in Russia, and especially in the North Caucasus.’

Week-ending 28 February 2020 Jeanne Cavelier, the head of RSF’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk (Twitter) Jeanne Cavelier, the head of RSF’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia desk: 'The…

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Podcast Simon & Sergei: Human rights in Russia week-ending 21 February 2020 – with Yury Dzhibladze

This week Simon and Sergei are joined by Yury Dzhibladze (pictured left), director of the Centre for Development of Democracy and Human Rights, based in Moscow. Yury has worked on human…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 136: Separatism, incitement of terrorism and Jehovah’s Witnesses

OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the mailing in…

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Quote for the Week. Tanya Lokshina: ‘Imprisoning Konstantin Kotov for nothing more than exercising his right to peaceful assembly is simply abominable.’

Week-ending 21 February 2020 Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director, Human Rights Watch: 'Imprisoning Konstantin Kotov for nothing more than exercising his right to peaceful assembly is simply…

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