Dmitri Makarov: Another Chance for ‘Helsinki from Below’? Reviving OSCE-Related Human Rights Groups

11 March 2022 by Dmitri Makarov, Council member, Moscow Helsinki Group. Contact: orlovets at gmail dot com Source: Dmitri  Makarov,  'Another  Chance  for  “Helsinki  from  Below”?  Reviving  OSCE-Related  Human  Rights …

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Rights in Russia interview – with Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights Law at Middlesex University

Mary Page talks with Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights Law at Middlesex University and an attorney - solicitor in UK parlance. Until February this year he was Director of…

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Roman Kiselev: ‘Citizens will no longer have access to a court of last resort in Strasbourg.’ Five questions about Russia’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe

16 March 2022 Source Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: online publication "7х7"] Russia has withdrawn from the Council of Europe. The country’s membership in the organisation ceased on 16 March. What…

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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: The Donbas has been a bleeding wound in Ukraine and Europe as a whole for eight years of brutal violence

21 March 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny The Donbas has been a bleeding wound in Ukraine and Europe as a whole for eight years of brutal violence. What has happened is…

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The last train to Strasbourg leaves on 15 September. Karinna Moskalenko in conversation with Leonid Nikitinsky

20 March 2022 Leonid Nikitinsky in conversation with Karinna Moskalenko Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: "Новая газета"] The European Court will continue to consider applications by Russians that have already…

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Weekly Update week-ending 18 March 2022

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: War is one thing … or How Ukraine itself is financing the Russian invasion

21 March 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV Without question, the war against Ukraine will remain one of the most shameful pages in Russian history. The unprovoked attack on that…

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Philip Leach: A Time of Reckoning? Russia and the Council of Europe

Photo of Philip Leach: EHRAC 17 March 2022 By Philip Leach Philip Leach is professor of human rights law at Middlesex University. Until recently, he was director of the European…

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Yury Shevchuk: ‘I am perfectly ready to give back my awards. But I am not prepared to give up my civic stance.’

14 March Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: News.ru] DDT leader Shevchuk spoke in an interview with News. ru about his readiness to give up his state awards because of…

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