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9 December 2020 By Boris Vishnevsky, deputy in the St Petersburg Legislative Assembly and recipient of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] The State…
This piece from March 1992 by Marjorie Farquharson was originally published on the website Marjorie and is republished here by kind permission. Press work is a natural and important part of the Moscow job,…
Photo: Dmitry Zair-Bek, Team 29 16 December 2020 Konstantin Kotov, who was convicted for violating the rules for holding public events under the so-called Dadin article, was released from Penal…
Flag of the Soviet Union, 1955-91 On 30 December 1922 the Soviet Union was founded. On 28 December 1922 a conference of plenipotentiary delegations from the Russian SFSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Ukrainian…
RFE/RL: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a raft of legislation that human rights watchdogs and opposition politicians have said will undermine democratic processes. The controversial legislation came into…
Week-ending 25 December 2020 This week on 23 December 2020 the State Duma approved a bill in its third and final reading amending the so-called 'foreign agent' law to increase…