From Our Archive. An interview with Mikhail Savva: ‘It’s true, I am not an accidental victim. I am their enemy.’

27 November 2016 Early in November, Rights in Russia spoke with Mikhail Savva, the civil society and human rights activist from Krasnodar who now lives in Ukraine, where he has…

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Leonid Nikitinsky on the situation of lawyers in Belarus: “Attacks on the Defence”

16 November 2020 By Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya Gazeta columnist, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s Human Rights Award Source: Moscow Helsinki…

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Aleksandr Verkhovsky: Terrorist acts in Europe and the reactions of Russian believers. How does the “conflict of values” affect public sentiments?

5 November 2020 By Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of the Sova Information and Analytical Centre, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize, in conversation with Maryana Torocheshnikova in the studio at…

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Lev Ponomarev on the FSB and the Network case: “The evil that holds the country by the throat”

15 November 2020 By Lev Ponomarev, chair of the national NGO For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] The “Network”…

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Tatyana Glushkova: “The gateway to a hell of limitless arbitrariness.” On the bill on advance oversight of NGOs’ activities

11 November 2020 By Tatyana Glushkova, lawyer, Memorial Human Rights Centre:  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: facebook.com/glush.tat] Yesterday the Government of the Russian Federation submitted to the State Duma a…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 180: Terrorism – now in Minecraft.

21 November 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

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Podcast No. 46. Simon & Sergei – with Mikhail Savva

Photo: Wikipedia Creative Commons This week our guest on the podcast is Mikhail Valentinovich Savva. Mikhail Savva is a human rights activist, political scientist and former professor at Kuban State…

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ECtHR Ruling of the Week: Court communicates application made in the interests of Salman Tepsurkaev; Marina Litvinenko files application for compensation over murder of her husband Aleksandr

Week-ending 20 November 2020 This week the European Court of Human Rights communicated an application filed by the Committee Against Torture, an NGO based in Nizhny Novgorod, in the interests…

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