Aleksandr Podrabinek: On Sanctions – and the Danger of Overdosing

30 May 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda Any medicine becomes poison in excessive doses. This goes for politics as well as medicine. Western sanctions against Russia, despite being…

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Weekly Update [week-ending 27 May 2022]

https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/ Our publications from the past week https://www.rightsinrussia.org/rights-in-russia-interview-28/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/25-questions-53/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ovdi-info-255/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podrabinek-50/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/akunin-2/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/khvostenko-on-greene/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/brodsky-on-greene/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/popov-greene/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/jolly/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/cosgrove-125/

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Francis Greene: ‘I’m not at all certain that I love Russia… I love the Russian people, I’m certain of that.’ An interview with Evgeny Popov [Ogonek, 2001]

Evgeny Popov. Source: Wikipedia 23 December 2001 by Evgeny Popov. An interview with Francis Greene Source: 'У вас еще продается славянский шкаф?' Kommersant, 23 December 2001 For many years, the…

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Sara Jolly reviews ‘Dealing with the Russians’ by Andrew Monaghan

30 May 2022 by Sara Jolly Sara Jolly reviews Dealing with the Russians by Andrew Monaghan, Polity, Cambridge, Oxford, Boston, New York [Paperback 2019]. pp160. £14.99 ISBN 9781509527625. For those of us who…

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Grigory Chkhartishvili [Boris Akunin]: ‘I don’t believe in collective responsibility and collective guilt.’

25 May 2022 by Grigory Chkhartishvili [Boris Akunin] Source: Facebook This discussion didn’t start yesterday and won’t end soon — about the Russians’ guilt in the war Putin unleashed, about the…

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“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Yulia Fedotova 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Yulia Fedotova, a lawyer who lives and works in Ekaterinburg. Yulia Fedotova has a PhD in law and has specialised…

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‘All over again, I’m missing the scent of your bonfires on Anzersky.’ Yury Brodsky on Francis Greene [from 2006]

Yury Brodsky 27 May 2022 We continue a series of publications in memory of the late Francis Greene (1936-2022) with this extract from Solovki. Labyrinth of Transformations by Yury Brodsky…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Lisa Sundstrom on Russia, civil society, human rights and international law

Mary Page Lisa Sundstrom Mary Page talks with Lisa Sundstrom, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia where she teaches courses in international…

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