Team 29: ⚡Russia and treason. How careers are made out of cases of national importance
25 July 2020 Hi! This is Elya Pakhomova, Head of Media and Press Secretary at Team 29. As promised, we launched a new series of our Little Terror podcast, which…
Rights in Russia week-ending 31 July 2020
http://www.rightsinrussia.org/quote-for-the-week-30/ Review of the week Compiled by Simon Cosgrove As suggested in our quote for the week by Olga Sadovskaya, Russia's constitutional amendments will undermine the rule of law and…
Podcast Simon & Sergei – with Igor Averkiev
This week our guest on the podcast is Igor Averkiev, civil society activist and human rights defender from Perm. Among the many themes we discuss are: how Igor became involved…
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 163: Transgender people arrested, extremism, terrorism and journalists fined
25 July 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Saturday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
Legal Case of the Week: Defendant in New Greatness trial alleges torture by police
Week-ending 24 July 2020 On Friday, 24 July, Ruslan Kostylenkov, a defendant in the controversial New Greatness case, accused police of beating and sexually assaulting him in order to obtain…
CSO of the Week: Anti-Corruption Foundation
Week-ending 24 July 2020 On Monday, 20 July, Aleksei Navalny announced he was closing the Anti-Corruption Foundation which he heads. The Foundation is currently facing a lawsuit under which Evgeny Prigozhin, known…
Law of the Week: Bill introducing multiday voting passes Parliament
Week-ending 24 July 2020 On Tuesday, 21 July 2020, the State Duma, approved in its final reading a bill that would allow voting over as many as three days during…
Grigory Pasko: It was a strange kind of freedom…
12 July 2020 Grigory Pasko, journalist, director of the Fellowship of Investigative Journalists Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Most amazingly, there were indeed laws.They took the Criminal Code…
Person of the Week: Yury Dmitriev
Week-ending 24 July 2020 Yury Dmitriev On Wednesday, 22 July 2020, historian and human rights defender Yury Dmitriev, former head of the Memorial organisation in Karelia who discovered mass graves of…
Memorial Human Rights Centre: Leftwing politician and video blogger Nikolai Platoshkin is a political prisoner
13 July 2020 Nikolai Platoshkin has been unjustifiably charged with making preparations for riots. This charge is politically motivated and related to his opposition civic and political activities. Source: Memorial…