Team 29: In the blink of an eye 👀
29 August 2020 Hi. It’s Aleksei Yurtaev, Team 29’s podcast producer The main (and rather depressing!) news is that summer has come to an end. We hope you spent it…
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 168: Death in a police station, beatings in jail
29 August 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the mailing…
European Court of Human Rights Ruling of the Week: Razvozzhayev & Udaltsov v. Russia
Week-ending 28 August 2020 On Tuesday, 25 August 2020, RAPSI reported that the Supreme Court’s Presidium will consider the possibility of vacation of the sentence against opposition activists Sergey Udaltsov…
Law of the Week: Article 280.1 of the Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation)
Week-ending 28 August 2020 On Monday, 24 August 2020, a Russian military court sentenced Airat Dilmukhametov, a prominent opposition activist from the Bashkortostan region, to nine years in a high-security…
CSO of the Week: FEM IZBA
Week-ending 28 August 2020 Photo: Caucasian Knot On 16 August activists of the feminist movement "FEM IZBA" held a flash mob in Rostov-on-Don as a sign of solidarity with the…
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Quote for the Week. Ekkehard Maas: ‘Unfortunately, this often happens […], Chechens seeking asylum are extradited to Russia, and there they are killed.’
Week-ending 28 August 2020 Source: German-Caucasian Friendship Societey ‘Despite numerous appeals to the courts, the prosecutor's office and the department of the Federal Chancellor about the danger threatening him in…
Airat Dilmukhametov appears in court in Samara on July 14. Photo: Idel.Realii
Legal Case of the Week: Airat Dilmukhametov sentenced to nine years in a high-security prison on extremism charges
Week-ending 28 August 2020 Airat Dilmukhametov appears in court in Samara on 14 July. Photo: Idel.Realii On Monday, 24 August 2020, a Russian military court sentenced Airat Dilmukhametov, a prominent…
Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny
Week-ending 28 August 2020 On Monday, 24 August 2020, The Guardian reported that tests indicated Aleksei Navalny was the victim of a poisoning and he was being treated with atropine, the same antidote…
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia
28 August 2020 A look back at the week by Simon Cosgrove. Simon is chair of trustees of Rights in Russia, but writes this blog in a personal capacity. This week…
Lev Shlosberg: The poisoning of Aleksei Navalny as a state secret
21 August 2020 Lev Shlosberg, human rights activist, public figure, deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies, journalist, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize in the field of…