News of the Day: 30 April 2021
The Guardian: Russia’s state financial watchdog has added Alexei Navalny’s network of regional headquarters to a terrorism watchlist as the Kremlin appears poised to outlaw the opposition leader’s nationwide political…
Lev Ponomarev: “I’m rubber and you’re glue; your words bounce off me and stick to you.” Extremists go after the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
19 April 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Pictured left is Lev Ponomarev, human-rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group One of the authors of the text,…
The Anti-Corruption Foundation trial is a step towards civil confrontation. Statement by human rights activists
25 April 2021 The photo shows Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] On April 26, 2021 the court case begins regarding…
News of the Day: 29 April 2021
The Guardian: The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has appeared in court via a video link from jail, looking gaunt after a hunger strike. The 44-year-old is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence for parole…
News of the Day: 28 April 2021
Amnesty International: A Russian court will tomorrow deliver its verdict in the case against activist Andrei Borovikov, who faces three years in prison if convicted of “distributing pornography” for sharing…
Weekly Update week-ending 23 April 2021
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Podcast No. 69: Simon & Sergei – with Olga Sadovskaya
This week our guest on the podcast is Olga Sadovskaya from the Nizhny Novgorod-based human rights organisation Committee against Torture. Olga Sadovskaya is head of the organisation's international protection department.…
Karinna Moskalenko: “Sometimes justice and the legal system don’t coincide, sometimes they do.”
13 April 2021 A. Petrovskaya of Ekho Moskvy in conversation with lawyer and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Karinna Moskalenko An extract from 'Милосердие и закон. Справедливость и правосудие.…
News of the Day: 27 April 2021
RFE/RL: A Russian court has approved a motion by prosecutors to suspend some of the activities of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and his Citizens' Rights Defense…
Anna Stavitskaya on the case of investigative journalist Roman Anin
10 April 2021 Nikolai Neliubin in conversation with the lawyer Anna Stavitskaya about the case of Roman Anin. An extract from 'ФСБ на обыске у журналиста Романа Анина: "Не путайте…