An interview with Lev Ponomarev: ‘The skin we have that stops us becoming beasts is too thin’ [Cherta]

12 May 2022 Lev Ponomarev in conversation with Irina Snegovskaya. An extract from 'У людей слишком тонкая кожа, спасающая человека от зверя,' Cherta, 12 May 2022. Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…

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Lev Ponomarev on the closing down of the movement For Human Rights: ‘I’m lucky I’m still alive.’

2 March 2021 Liubov Chizhova interviews Lev Ponomarev (pictured), human rights activist and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода] Russian human rights…

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Lev Ponomarev: “I am not tired. I am not going anywhere.”

2 March 2021 By Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы, 2.03.2021] ‘THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) HAS BEEN CREATED AND…

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CSO of the Week: For Human Rights, closing down as a result of latest tightening of ‘foreign agent’ law

Week-ending 5 March 2021 On 1 March 2021 veteran human rights activist Lev Ponomarev announced the NGO, For Human Rights, would close on account of the recent legislation enabling individual…

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Lev Ponomarev on the prosecutions of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Onwards to the Evil Empire!

24 November 2020 By Lev Ponomarev, chair of the NGO For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] 24 November 2020,…

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Lev Ponomarev: Russia should be ashamed to go down the path of totalitarianism again. Even if it’s totalitarianism-light.

27 November 2020 an interview with Lev Ponoarev from SIA-PRESS Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: For Human Rights ] In Russia in the 2010s, in response to the strengthening of…

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