On the outlawing of Agora. “In a totalitarian country, there is no such thing as a free legal profession” 

19 June 2023 What Agora, which the General Prosecutor’s Office has deemed an undesirable organization, is remembered for and what Russians are saying about that Source: Govorit NeMoskva The lead…

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Boris Altshuler: Letter to Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the ICRC

1 June 2023 an open letter by Boris Altshuler To Mirjana Spoljaric Egger President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Dear ICRC President Mirjana Slovjaric! The Moscow…

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Weekly Update [week-ending 16 June 2023]

https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/ Our publications from the past week https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ovd-info-310/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/shablinsky-27/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podrabinek-118/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/memorial-society-2/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/support-for-political-prisoners-memorial-77/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/support-for-political-prisoners-memorial-76/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/support-for-political-prisoners-memorial-75/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/witnesses-against-war-26/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate-support-us/

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Lethally Dangerous Name ‘Navalny’

17 June 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV  Up until today, the most seditious word in Russia was “war.” Now we have added “Navalny.” In Kazan, a court fined a…

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Fakery. Ilya Shablinsky on the important events of the past week: another attempt by Putin to morally justify the war he is waging – and what he is counting on

Photo by Sergei Chugunov 19 June 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press It turns out that that the first thing to be done here is to review and somehow analyse…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 310: Detention centre, torture, death

17 June 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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