Write to Russia: 500 letters on!
8 July 2026 Project update: 500 Letters! A Russian political prisoner, sentenced by one of Putin’s courts to 12 years’ imprisonment, wrote to his friends in England: ‘I am a…
8 July 2026 Project update: 500 Letters! A Russian political prisoner, sentenced by one of Putin’s courts to 12 years’ imprisonment, wrote to his friends in England: ‘I am a…
Moscow, 21 May 2026 by Boris Altshuler [This text was originally published in Russian in Novaya gazeta - Kazakhstan] In connection with today's (21 May) 105th anniversary of the birth…
28 April 2026 A collective warning to readers of The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2026). Source: Ukrainska Pravda [for…
24 April 2026 by Boris Altshuler [Russian version available at: Novaya Gazeta - Kazakhstan] The event dedicated to Arseny Roginsky's 80th birthday, scheduled for 23 April 2026 at the Yabloko…
18 February 2026 Below is a letter from Moscow to the Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS, USA) with a request to speak out in defence of 10 Russian scientists who…
8 March 2026 by James Lofthouse On 8 March, the human rights project Memorial. Political Prisoners issued an appeal highlighting the situation of women imprisoned for political reasons in Russia.…
17 February 2026 by Robert van Voren Republished by kind permission of the author; photos © the author Source: Facebook Some thirty-eight years ago, being a courier to the human…
The media project Activatica has released a new film Prisoners. Part 2: The System of Terror about the system of terror constructed by Russia in occupied Ukraine. This film explores…
28 January 2025 by Sergei Nikitin In 1975 I was working as a precision photolithography coordinatographer at the B.P. Konstantinov Leningrad Institute of Nuclear Physics of the USSR Academy of…
25 April 2024 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny Inspiration for these notes includes the article by Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, 'T'he Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine,' published…