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CSO of the Week: Pervyi Otdel [‘First Department’]
Week-ending 24 December 2021 On 20 December 2021 ['Chekists' Day' - the professional day of those working in Russia's security services, commemorating the day of the founding of the Cheka…
CSO of the Week: Memorial
Week-ending 17 December 2021 This week the legal proceedings to close down the Memorial International Society and the Memorial Human Rights Centre continued, hearings in the former case resumed on…
CSO of the Week: Memorial. On Human Rights Day, 11 human rights organisations spoke out in defence of Memorial.
Week-ending 10 December 2021 On 10 December 2021 Memorial, a cornerstone of Russian civil society, is under threat of liquidation by the Russian authorities on baseless charges. Memorial’s two entities…
CSO of the Week: Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation
Week-ending 3 December 2021 The banning and designation as 'extremist' of Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, along with other organisations associated with him, which Amnesty International has described as 'one of…
CSO of the Week: Memorial
Week-ending 26 November 2021 This week the hearings of the lawsuits brought by prosecutors to close down the International Memorial Society and the Memorial Human Rights Centre began. On 23…
CSO of the Week: International Memorial Society and Memorial Human Rights Centre
Week-ending 19 November 2021 This week attention has remained focused on the fate of the Memorial organisations - the International Memorial Society and the Memorial Human Rights Centre, both of…
CSO of the Week: Memorial threatened with closure
Week-ending 12 November 2021 On 11 November 2021 Memorial International Society received notification from the Supreme Court that on 8 November 2021 the Prosecutor-General's Office had brought a suit to…
CSO of the Week: OVD-Info reports on the ‘Russian March’
Week-ending 5 November 2021 OVD-Info is Russia's leading source of information about unlawful arrests and detentions, including in particular violations of right of assembly. This week the civil society group…
CSO of the Week: Hizb ut-Tahrir
Week-ending 29 October 2021 Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamic religious group that does not advocate or practice violence, yet has been designated as terrorist by the Russian authorities. Moreover, in…
CSO of the Week: Gulagu.net
The civil society organisation Gulagu.net continued in the news this week. Gulagu.net describes itself as a project 'against corruption and torture in Russia, bringing together more than 18,000 activists and volunteers.'…