

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Olga Vekovshinina, a human rights activist from Ekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region. Olga Vekovshinina is a member of the Sverdlovsk region Public Oversight Commission [“ОНК”] and an independent unpaid advisor to Tatyana Merzlyakova, human rights ombudsman for Sverdlovsk region. Since 1999 Olga Vekovshinina has worked as an independent businessperson [“индивидуальный предприниматель”]. The video can be viewed on YouTube and below.