Team 29: “The fact is they didn’t hit her, they pushed her away by placing a foot against her stomach.”

29 January 2021 Hi! This is Artem Kutlovsky, a lawyer with Team 29 The past week has been a tense one for Team 29, although there were only two main…

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Boris Vishnevsky: “Those who serve the law rather than the authorities, and protect citizens from criminals rather than the government from citizens, do not need anonymity”

13 January 2021 By Boris Visnyesky, a deputy in the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] State Duma deputies…

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An interview with Aleksandr Bekhtold: ‘Why Russian officials don’t need pictures of human rights defenders on billboards’ [7×7]

19 January 2021 Ekaterina Vulikh talks with Aleksandr Bekhtold, a human rights defender from Ryazan, for 7x7 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: интернет-журнал «7х7»] ‘Our government, by definition, is a…

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Rights in Russia week-ending 29 January 2021

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CSO of the Week: Anti-Corruption Foundation

Week-ending 29 January 2021 On 27 January 2021 police raided the headquarters of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation in Moscow after investigators opened a new inquiry into alleged breaches of coronavirus…

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