Person of the Week: Prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny
Week-ending 17 September 2021 This week, on 13 September in a social media post written from prison, Aleksei Navalny called on Russians to vote tactically to maximise the vote against…
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…
Vera Vasilieva on those imprisoned: ‘Under the hammer of repression’
20 July 2021 by Vera Vasilieva, independent journalist, head of Radio Svoboda's project 'Svoboda and Memorial,' laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода]…
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…
Yury Samodurov: This is not about voting, it’s about Yavlinsky
10 July 2021 By Yury Samodurov Source: Ekho Moskvy When asked by Dozhd whether he thought Navalny to be a political prisoner, Yavlinsky irritably answered: ‘I don’t know.’ For this…
Person of the Week: Ilya Yashin steps down as chair of local assembly as a result of pressure from the authorities
Week-ending 16 July 2021 Photo: Facebook On 12 July 2021 Moscow opposition municipal deputy Ilya Yashin said he was stepping down as chair of the municipal assembly on account of…
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]…
Lev Ponomarev: Either monitor the elections or witness a disaster
27 June 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] “THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED…