Grigory Melkonyants: On a bill on elections in wartime
10 March 2022 by Grigory Melkonyants Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook] In December 2021, the State Duma passed a bill on the regulation of remote electronic voting. My…
Arkady Liubarev: Is it impossible to fix an ineffectual, harmful and inhumane law?
3 February 2022 by Arkady Liubarev*, an expert on electoral law (included in the Russian Ministry of Justice’s register of individuals deemed to be media foreign agents) Source: Moscow Helsinki…
Podcast No. 92. Simon & Sergei – with Grigory Melkonyants
Our guest this week on the podcast is Grigory Melkonyants. Grigory Melkonyants is a Russian human rights activist, lawyer and co-chair of Golos, the movement to protect voters' rights. This…
Statement: Political analysts call on Ella Pamfilova not to prevent them researching the Russian elections
22 September 2021 Pictured: Elena Lukyanova, lawyer, professor at the Free University, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize and one of the signatories of the appeal Source: Moscow Helsinki…
New Golos report on election campaigning and the authorities’ mobilisation of the voters
14 September 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of voters’ rights movement Golos and laureate of a Moscow-Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook] An analytical report on election…
CSO of the Week: The Smart Voting Project
Week-ending 10 September 2021 On 6 September 2021 the Russian authorities blocked a website that promotes Smart Voting - "умное голосование" - a project organised by those who support the…
CSO of the Week: Golos, the independent election monitor
Week-ending 3 September 2021 This week Andrew Roth, reporting in The Guardian on the situation in Russia surrounding the upcoming elections to be held over 17-19 September, wrote: Meanwhile, rules…
Grigory Melkonyants: The Central Election Commission cancels live video broadcasts from polling stations
14 July 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Golos, a movement for the defence of voters' rights and winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [Original Source : facebook.com/grigory.melkonyants,]…
Igor Yakovenko: ‘Scorched earth’ tactics
16 July 2021 By Igor Yakovenko Source: Ezhednevnyi zhurnal The internet publication Proekt has been labelled an undesirable organisation. The Institute of Law and Public Policy has been labelled a…
Grigory Melkonyants on why nine million Russians can’t be elected
22 June 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the electoral rights defence movement Golos [Voice] and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы]…