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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…