Week-ending 28 May 2021 This week three new charges were laid against Aleksei Navalny, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience 1) for theft of donations to the…
Week-ending 28 May 2021 Yulia Galyamina On 22 May 2021 polilce broke up a meeting of municipal deputies and opposition activists in the city of Veliky Novgorod, detaining two participants…
Week-ending 28 May 2021 This week the State Duma approved in second reading a bill to ban supporters and members of organisations designated by the authorities as 'extremist' from standing…
RFE/RL: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he thinks it is likely that Belarusian authorities organized the diversion last week of an Irish airliner to Minsk with ally Russia. The military…
RFE/RL: A Russian court has sentenced five former police officers to several years in prison for the 2019 arrest of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov on trumped-up drug charges. The Moscow…
28 October 2021 by Sergei Nikitin Sergei Nikitin is a former director of Amnesty’s Russia office and a member of the Amnesty International local group in Glossop, Derbyshire The publication…
4 May 2021 by Aleksandr Verkhovsky is the director of the information-analytical Sova Centre. He is a member of the Human Rights Council of the Russian President, and laureate of…
13 May 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky, a columnist at Novaya gazeta, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, and winner of the Moscow-Helsinki Group prize Source: Mosow Helsinki Group [original…
RFE/RL: Open Russia, a British-based pro-democracy movement founded by Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, says it has decided to end its operations in Russia. The decision was made to protect its…
Reuters: The Russian state prosecutor's office banned three German non-governmental organisations on Wednesday after labelling them "undesirable", the TASS news agency reported. The groups were identified as the Forum Russischsprachiger…