Ministry of Justice labels Svetlana Gannushkina a ‘foreign agent’

23 December 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group The Russian government department responsible for maintaining the ‘foreign agent’ register has added several more individuals and organisations to its list, including Svetlana…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Let the UN die a quiet death

27 December 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV On 26 December, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the illegitimacy of the Russian Federation being on the UN Security…

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Svetlana Astrakhantseva: Fundamental human rights exist now only in the Constitution, to which law enforcement pays no attention.

20 December 2022 Svetlana Astrakhantseva, Moscow Helsinki Group CEO, in conversation with Svetlana Reiter. Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Meduza] Russia’s Ministry of Justice has initiated liquidation proceedings against the…

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Natan Sharansky: The blow Putin has inflicted on Russia is fatal

23 December 2022 Author: Natella Boltyanskaya; photo: Tomer Appelbaum Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician, former Soviet political prisoner, one of the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…

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Members of the Russian Anti-War Committee on the Shutting Down of the Moscow Helsinki Group

26 December 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group The Russian authorities are closing down and outlawing the country's oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group. For several decades the Moscow…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: The Moscow Helsinki Group’s impending liquidation is the sad but logical result of attitudes toward human rights in the Russian Federation [Novaya gazeta]

20 December 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, journalist,  doctor of jurisprudence, and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights prize. Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Novaya Gazeta. Europe] There is…

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Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 23 December 2022]

27 December 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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Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Russians can be ‘divided’ into the ‘law-abiding’ and ‘freeloaders’

15 December 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny In my opinion, apart from the most important things that are happening today when people are dying, when people are constantly suffering with no…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 285: Back to the 1980s – Poliudova gets nine years; authorities move to close down Moscow Helsinki Group

24 December 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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