‘The old house’ – Valery Panyushkin on those who have left and those who have stayed behind

Photo: Wilson Center 28 October 2023 by Valery Panyushkin Source: Spektr.Press Sad circumstances (the serious illness of my father) forced me not so long ago to return to Moscow which…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 329: 236 days in a punishment cell

28 October 2023 OVD-Info is a Russian civil society organisation that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here.…

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Rights in Russia Update [27 October 2023]

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Yaroslav Vilchevsky from Vladivostok is a political prisoner

17 October 2023 Yaroslav Vilchevsky is a political prisoner Yaroslav Vilchevsky, an activist from Vladivostok, has been sentenced to two years in a penal colony  for ‘justifying’ the 2018 suicide…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Igor Baryshnikov from Kaliningrad is a political prisoner

13 October 2023 Igor Baryshnikov, a pensioner diagnosed with cancer, has been sentenced to seven and a half years in a penal colony for anti-war posts on Facebook Source: Political…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Konstantin Seleznev from Moscow is a political prisoner

12 October 2023 Konstantin Seleznev has been remanded in custody after sending the Prosecutor General the UN report on the events in Bucha and reminding Putin about the shooting down…

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Two very different things. Ilya Shablinsky – on how treason is regarded in Israel and in Russia 

24 October 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: Spektr.Press The war in Israel has entered a new stage. And the question of the accountability of the forces that were responsible for…

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Statement by the Russian Helsinki Group: In Defence of the Constitution of the Russian Federation

21 October 2023 Source: Russian Helsinki Group On the basis of the fundamental principles of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, ‘Recognition, observance and protection of human and civil rights…

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