Dmitri Makarov: Another Chance for ‘Helsinki from Below’? Reviving OSCE-Related Human Rights Groups

11 March 2022 by Dmitri Makarov, Council member, Moscow Helsinki Group. Contact: orlovets at gmail dot com Source: Dmitri  Makarov,  'Another  Chance  for  “Helsinki  from  Below”?  Reviving  OSCE-Related  Human  Rights …

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Rights in Russia interview – with Dmitri Makarov on the human rights situation in Russia

Mary Page talks with Dmitri Makarov, a leading human rights activist and Council member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, where Dmitri has also worked as programme coordinator. He has also…

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Dmitri Makarov and Mary Kaldor: Why we need to unite for peace and human rights across the old divides [via Red Pepper]

1 March 2022 by Dmitri Makarov, a human rights and anti-war activist, and a board member of the Moscow Helsinki group, and Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance at the…

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Dmitry Makarov and Oleg Orlov on the prospects of the investigation into Kadyrov’s threats

8 April 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group On 7th April 2021, the Supreme Court of Chechnya ordered the case concerning Ramzan Kadyrov's public threats to human rights defenders and journalists…

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Dmitry Makarov: “I have met so many wonderful people in the human rights field who never fail to inspire me”

August 2020 Dmitry Makarov, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, talks to Inna Bondarenko, a first-year master's student of Political Analysis and Public Policy at the Higher School of Economics…

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Dmitry Makarov: There are serious concerns that a system for controlling the movement of citizens will remain after the quarantine measures have ended

18 May 2020 Dmitry Makarov is co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [an adaptation of the original source: Foreign Policy] Human rights defenders are concerned that…

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Lev Ponomarev: Information on the epidemiological situation in penitentiary facilities should be made public

18 April 2020 Lev Ponomarev, head of For Human Rights, a human rights NGO, and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы, 18.04.2020] We…

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Dmitry Makarov: Moscow Helsinki Group Calls on Authorities to Adopt Urgent Measures to Counteract Outbreaks of COVID-19 in Detention Facilities

30 March 2020 Dmitry Makarov, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: ОГФ] The Moscow Helsinki Group calls on Russian authorities to take urgent measures…

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