News of the Day: 31 December 2021
The Moscow Times: Russia on Friday confirmed 20,638 Covid-19 infections and 912 deaths. RFE/RL: The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has repeated its “very strong criticism” of Russia’s laws on…
News of the Day: 30 December 2021
The Moscow Times: Russia on Thursday confirmed 21,073 Covid-19 infections and 926 deaths. Cases in Moscow rose from 1,798 on Wednesday to 2,661 on Thursday, a nearly 50% increase. RFE/RL: Nadezhda…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Pacifying the Aggressor and the Foreign Agents Club
17 December 2021 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Sources: Facebook and Belsat TV New Year is coming and with it the time announced by Western intelligence communities of the supposed invasion by…
Person of the Week: Oleg Kashintsev, Red Square pro-Navalny protester
Week-ending 24 December 2021 On 19 December 2021 Oleg Kashintsev, a retired Moscow police officer, was arrested after holding a single-person protest in Red Square to demand the release of…
Legal Case of the Week: Dutch prosecutors request life sentences for four suspects on trial in absentia for 2014 downing of MH17 over Ukraine
Week-ending 24 December 2021 The aircraft involved, 9M-MRD, pictured in 2011 by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On 22 December 2021 Dutch prosecutors requested life sentences for…
Quote for the Week. HRW: “The Russian authorities are rapidly turning the internet in Russia into a zone of repression”
Week-ending 24 December 2021 “The Russian government is using its growing technological capacity to engage in nontransparent, unlawful, and extrajudicial restriction of digital rights in Russia. This past year’s dramatic…
News of the Day: 29 December 2021
The Moscow Times: Russia on Tuesday confirmed 21,922 Covid-19 infections and 935 deaths. Meduza: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued an interim measure telling Russia to suspend…
News of the Day: 28 December 2021
International Memorial: On 28 December 2021 Russia's Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, referred to a missing 'foreign agent' designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal…
News of the Day: 27 December 2021
The Moscow Times: Russia on Monday confirmed 23,210 Covid-19 infections and 937 deaths. The Guardian: A Russian court has increased a jail sentence for the Gulag historian Yury Dmitriyev to…
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Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 24 December 2021]
26 December 2021 By Simon Cosgrove Simon is chair of Rights in Russia but writes these comments in a personal capacity and they may not necessarily represent the views of the…