Weekly Update [week-ending 24 February 2023]

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 294: A year of full-scale war

25 February 2023 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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Aleksandr Podrabinek on objectors and deserters: ‘No One Wanted to Go to War’ 

22 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek: Source: Radio Svoboda War repeals many laws, but it does not repeal the desire to live. Some accept war as a challenge and rush…

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Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 24 February 2023]

26 February 2023 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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Witnesses Against War #2: Web-designer, currently outside Russia

22 May 2022 Witness #2: a web-designer, currently outside Russia Source: Witnesses Against War Witnesses Against War is an anonymous international group of journalists, writers, historians and translators, who live in…

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Elena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov in 1979. Photo: HRW

Boris Altshuler: On the centenary of Yelena Georgievna Bonner’s birth

15 February 2023 by Boris Altshuler, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group “Anyone who does not regret the breakup of the USSR has no heart,  and anyone who thinks we…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: According to Doctor of Law Bastrykin, 6-7 years’ imprisonment for a post on social networks is just the thing.

20 February 2023 All Quiet on the Western Front: Bastrykin's interview on the eve of the presidential address tackles purely propaganda issues, not legal ones by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Say “emigration”, you get a fine, say “gay”, you get a prison sentence

18 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Russian authorities have an extremely peculiar tradition: as soon as the abominations they have committed become a flood, they immediately start…

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