Weekly Update [week-ending 25 November 2022]

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‘Dovlatov’s phrase about “four million denunciations” is a dangerous falsehood.’ Aleksandr Cherkasov on repressions, the Nobel Prize and the state of human rights advocacy [Bumaga]

Photo: Nikita Mouraviev/ Facebook 21 November 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov Source: Bumaga This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to human rights activists: the chair of the Belarusian movement Viasna,…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 281: Ever more restrictions

26 November 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…

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Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 25 November 2022]

27 November 2022 By Simon Cosgrove Simon is chair of Rights in Russia but writes these comments in a personal capacity and they may not necessarily represent the views of the…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Kremlin protects its killers. What the verdict in the case of the shooting down of Flight MH17 means

21 November 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV From the very beginning of the trial in The Hague in the case of the shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines' Boeing…

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Oleg Orlov: ‘They wanted fascism. They got it.’

14 November 2022 by Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the board of the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Source: Facebook [this article was first published in French translation by Mediapart] The bloody…

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A talk by Stephania Kulaeva and Olga Abramenko of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial

On 15 November 2022 the Pushkin Club and Rights in Russia organised a talk by Stephania Kulaeva and Olga Abramenko, experts from the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial, at Pushkin House in London. You can see…

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Weekly Update [week-ending 18 November 2022]

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Lev Shlosberg: Remembering Galina Starovoitova

20 November 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Twenty-four years ago, on 20 November 1998, at 10:35 p.m., Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova, one of the most formidable politicians of the post-Soviet…

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