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Sergei Davidis on why Russian society is reluctant to condemn the threat of war – despite largely disagreeing with it

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 25, 2022
Post category:Civil Rights Defenders Human Rights Defenders OpenDemocracy Sergei Davidis Ukraine
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Sergei Davidis 24 January 2022 An interview with Sergei Davidis published by OpenDemocracy, republished here by kind permission Natalia Shkurenok in conversation with Sergei Davidis who heads the program for…

Read more about the article Quote for the Week: ‘We, the undersigned Russian and international human rights organization condemn the escalating attacks against Russian LGBT Network, its leadership and partners.’

Quote for the Week: ‘We, the undersigned Russian and international human rights organization condemn the escalating attacks against Russian LGBT Network, its leadership and partners.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 20, 2021
Post category:Amnesty International Civic Assistance Committee Civil Rights Defenders Committee Against Torture Front Line Defenders Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Memorial Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial Human Rights Centre Norwegian Helsinki Committee Quote for the Week Russian LGBT Network
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Week-ending 19 November 2021 'We, the undersigned Russian and international human rights organizations condemn the escalating attacks against Russian LGBT Network, its leadership and partners. We call on the Russian…

Quote for the Week: “This attack on Memorial is a political act of retaliation against human rights defenders.” – Joint Statement by Russian and international human rights groups in support of Memorial

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 13, 2021
Post category:Amnesty International Civic Assistance Committee Civil Rights Defenders Committee Against Torture Conflict Analysis and Prevention Centre EHRAC EU-Russia Civil Society Forum FIDH Front Line Defenders Human Rights Watch International Memorial Memorial Norwegian Helsinki Committee Quote for the Week
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Week-ending 12 November 2021 This attack on Memorial is a political act of retaliation against human rights defenders. Russian authorities should withdraw the suits against Memorial Human Rights Center and…

Grigory Melkonyants on why Golos has been classified as a ‘foreign agent’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 2, 2021
Post category:Civil Rights Defenders Elections Foreign Agent Law Free Elections Grigory Melkonyants Human Rights Defenders Politically Motivated Prosecutions
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22 October 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement for the defence of voters’ rights, an independent election-monitoring organisation, and laureate of the prize of the Moscow Helsinki…

CSO of the Week: OVD-Info wins Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2021

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:September 25, 2021
Post category:Civil Rights Defenders Civil Society Activists Civil Society Organisation of the Week Human Rights Defenders OVD-Info
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Week-ending 24 September 2021 On 23 September 2021 Civil Rights Defenders announced that OVD-Info had won its Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award. Civil Rights Defenders stated: The Russian…

Andrey Kazantsev: The Moscow Case – One More Wave of Repressions

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 9, 2020
Post category:Andrey Kazantsev Andrey Kazantsev Blog Civil Rights Defenders Civil Society Activists
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9 April 2020 Andrey Kazantsev is a civic and environmental activist from Moscow, Russia It all started at the beginning of the summer of 2019, when the Moscow City Election…