Ilya Shablinsky: Dictatorship is always short-lived
11 May 2022 Darya Kornilova interviews Ilya Shablinsky, doctor of jurisprudence, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and member of the Human Rights Council from 2012 to 2019, who talks…
CSO of the Week: Cherepovets branch of For Human Rights
Week-ending 2 April 2021 This week, Grigory Vinter, the head of the branch of the recently dissolved nationwide human rights organisation For Human Rights, was sentenced to two years of…
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…
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…
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…
Lev Ponomarev: New Year’s Greetings
31 December 2020 By Lev Ponomarev, chair of the human rights NGO Za Prava Cheloveka [For Human Rights] and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…
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,…
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…
Lev Ponomarev on the appeal hearing in the Network case: Be careful, the doors are closing! It only remains to put out the lights.
26 August 2020 By Lev Ponomarev, chair of ‘For Human Rights’, a nation-wide NGO, and a member of the Moscow-Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] In 2016,…
Lev Ponomarev: Ivan Liubshin and Svetlana Prokopyeva
18 August 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chair of the national civil society organisation For Human Rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy, 18.08.2020]…