Mikhail Savva: On Rashism, or what doesn’t officially exist – Russian state ideology

30 January 2023 by Mikhail Savva, doctor of political sciences, professor, member of the expert council of the Center for Civil Liberties / Центр Громадянських Свобод  Source: Website of Mikhail…

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Ivan Pavlov: Scientists are easy prey for our special services [Present Tense]

1 July 2022 The human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov, a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for human rights, in conversation with Irina Pomaliiskaya of Present Tense about the…

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Dmitry Dubrovsky: “My dismissal is a triumph for the closed, non-transparent system”

16 May 2022  by Anton Zhezmer a translation of 'Интеллектуальная катастрофа. Как в России сворачиваются академические свободы', Север.Реалии, 16 May 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Север.Реалии] Russian higher education…

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Podcast No. 81. Simon & Sergei – with Elena Belokurova

This week our guest on the podcast is Elena Belokurova. Elena is a political scientist specializing in the study of civil society and a civic activist from St. Petersburg. She…

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Podcast No. 46. Simon & Sergei – with Mikhail Savva

Photo: Wikipedia Creative Commons This week our guest on the podcast is Mikhail Valentinovich Savva. Mikhail Savva is a human rights activist, political scientist and former professor at Kuban State…

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