Boris Altshuler: Remembering human rights defender Andrei Babushkin (28 January 1964 – 14 May 2022)

14 March 2023 by Boris Altshuler, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новые известия] Andrei Babushkin, who passed away in May last…

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Nikolai Kavkazsky: “Opportunities for lawful political action have been severely curtailed … but as long as such opportunities exist, I’ll be here. If they start shooting us and imprisoning us by the thousands, then I’ll be forced to leave.”

25 May 2022 Olga Allenova interviews Nikolai Kavkazsky for Novaya gazeta. Evropa Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [Original source: Новая газета. Европа] Following the death of human rights defender Andrei Babushkin, the…

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Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group award, has died

Photo: Yabloko party 14 May 2022  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Andrei Babushkin was born in 1964 in Moscow region. He graduated from the faculty of philosophy of Moscow State University.…

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Andrei Babushkin: Are the Minister of Justice and human rights activists in agreement?

14 October 2021 by Andrei Babushkin, Head of the Committee for Civil Rights, Deputy Chair of the Public Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, member of the…

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Andrei Babushkin summarises Lev Ponomarev’s presentation at the 44th anniversary of Moscow Helsinki Group on his role in the human rights movement

23 May 2020 By Andrei Babushkin, head of the Committee for Civil Rights, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council, and a laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group award for…

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Andrei Babushkin summarises Valery Borshchev’s webinar on the history of human rights in Russia

16 May 2020 Andrei Babushkin, director of the Committee for Civil Rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group  [original source: LiveJournal] Russian human rights defense is not the heir of prerevolutionary human…

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Lev Ponomarev: We demand a thorough and open investigation of the disturbances in Prison Colony No. 15, Irkutsk region

12 April 2020 Lev Ponomarev is chair of For Human Rights — a nationwide human rights NGO — and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…

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