Team 29: Be realistic: demand the impossible!
26 December 2020 Hi. It’s Maksim Zagovor, Head of Media at Team 29 The final and 52nd full week of this altogether unfulfilling 2020 is coming to an end. It…
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 184: A new year, new joys and new draconian laws.
26 December 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…
News of the Day: 29 December 2020
RFE/RL: Russia's Federal Prison Service has told Kremlin critic and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny to return immediately from Germany -- where he is recovering from a near-fatal poisoning by a…
Memorial Human Rights Centre: The criminal prosecution of Arkhangelsk city activist Andrei Borovikov is politically motivated and unlawful
25 December 2020 Andrei Borovikov has been charged with unlawful trafficking in pornography for posting on VKontakte a video clip from a Rammstein music video of the song Pussy Source:…
News of the Day: 28 December 2020
RFE/RL: Russia has for the first time branded individuals as "foreign agents," including three who contribute to RFE/RL. Five journalists or activists in total were added to the Russian Justice…
Podcast No. 52. Simon & Sergei – with Boris Altshuler
This week our guest is Boris Lvovich Altshuler. Boris Altshuler is a physicist and human rights activist, a senior researcher at the theoretical physics department of the Lebedev Physical Institute…
News of the Day: 27 December 2020
RFE/RL: A court in the Russian North Caucasus city of Nalchik has banned four archive videos by the AP news agency from the wars in Chechnya in the 1990s and…
Leonid Nikitinsky: Native Superiorities
9 December 2020 By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] Russian courts have begun to test the supremacy of Russian law over international law on parents and…
Zoya Svetova: In search of a fair trial. Why the ‘No Way’ podcast is needed.
1 July 2020 By Zoya Svetova - introducing her new podcasts Source: MBK-News Today is 1 July, the day voting takes place on the constitutional amendments. Some people are voting,…
Zoya Svetova: Katya Gavrilova’s testament
24 June 2019 By Zoya Svetova Source: The World News This is the story of a woman who was put behind bars, twice, because of some provocation by the police,…