Lev Ponomarev on Boris Yeltsin: The Hero Who Was Deleted from History

1 February 2023 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender Source: Ekho Moskvy Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the birth date of Boris Yeltsin, democratic Russia’s…

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Statement by Congress of the Intelligentsia: “You will be cursed!”

21 February 2022 An open statement by the Congress of the Intelligentsia Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы, 21.02.2022] To the Warmongers The main topic of news in recent…

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Lev Ponomarev: Don’t cut down the forest or chop off people’s heads

7 February 2022 by Lev Ponomarev*, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group (included in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation’s register of individual media foreign…

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Ekho Moskvy editorial board: ‘We ask the President of the Russian Federation to intervene in the situation’

2 February 2022 By the editorial board of Ekho Moskvy Source: Ekho Moskvy In connection with the threats made against our colleagues from Novaya gazeta and Dozhd* TV channel by…

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Lev Ponomarev: “A colonel no more.” Putin’s new decree

9 December 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, head of the civil rights project For Human Rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо…

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Members of the Human Rights Council will ask Putin to change legislation in the field of combating torture

2 December 2021 Pictured left: Eva Merkacheva, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Moskovsky komsomolets journalist, laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group award for human rights Source: Moscow…

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Lev Ponomarev: “I’m rubber and you’re glue; your words bounce off me and stick to you.” Extremists go after the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

19 April 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Pictured left is Lev Ponomarev, human-rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group One of the authors of the text,…

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Karinna Moskalenko: “Sometimes justice and the legal system don’t coincide, sometimes they do.”

13 April 2021 A. Petrovskaya of Ekho Moskvy in conversation with lawyer and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Karinna Moskalenko An extract from 'Милосердие и закон. Справедливость и правосудие.…

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