“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Evgeny Vitishko 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Evgeny Vitishko. Evgeny Vitishko is an environmental rights defender who worked for many years with Environmental Watch on North Caucasus…

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Boris Altshuler: A War with the People of Russia

24 February 2022 by Boris Altshuler, chair of Right of the Child, a regional civil society organisation; member of the Moscow Helsinki Group; member of convocations III and IV of…

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Boris Altshuler: This has never happened in Moscow before: the crackdown on citizens protesting against construction work in Troitsk Forest

2 February 2022 by Boris Altshuler, head of Right of the Child, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Broken arms and legs, beating of women -…

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Evgeniya Chirikova: The authorities, unfortunately, continue to view climate action as essentially subversive

Evgeniya Chirikova, environmental activist and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for human rights 2 November 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Русская служба «Голоса Америки»] World leaders promised…

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CSO of the Week: Chistaya Urdoma ends protests after construction of Shiyes landfill site halted.

Wee-ending 15 January 2021 Source: StopShies On 9 January 2020, the Chistaya Urdoma activist group said that they would end their protests due to “the continued demolition and removal of materials” from…

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