7 February 2022 by Lev Ponomarev*, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group (included in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation’s register of individual media foreign…
5 February 2022 by Grigory Okhotin, founder of the human rights project OVD-Info Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: t.me/gokhotin] The round table discussion with State Duma deputies on the foreign…
19 February 2022 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: facebook.com/pchikov] Ultimately, a permanent member of the UN Security Council can…
Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Aleksandr Podrabinek, human rights defender and journalist. In 1977, Aleksandr launched the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for…
21 February 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The question most frequently asked these days when meeting or talking on the phone with friends or acquaintances is: "Do you think…
6 February 2022 by Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Mosow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] A response to…
15 February 2022 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda The upcoming visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Moscow is, of course, primarily concerned with the threat of Russian aggression against…
21 February 2022 by Reuben Woolley Reuben Woolley reviews OST: Letters, Memoirs and Stories from Ostarbeiter in Nazi Germany, edited by Alena Kozlova, Nikolai Mikhailov, Irina Ostrovskaya and Irina Scherbakova, translated by…
19 February 2022 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…
4 February 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya gazeta columnist, member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council, Moscow Helsinki Group prize-winner Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] Official and…