Gorbachev Archives - Rights in Russia

Lev Shlosberg: He Chose Freedom – a word of thanks to Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev on the day of his birth

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:March 7, 2023
Post category:Gorbachev Lev Shlosberg Politicians
Post comments:0 Comments

2 March 2023 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Novaya gazeta Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the USSR, was born on 2 March. This particular date has become a major event…

Lev Ponomarev on Boris Yeltsin: The Hero Who Was Deleted from History

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 7, 2023
Post category:Ekho Moskvy Gorbachev Human Rights Defenders Individuals Lev Ponomarev Mikhail Gorbachev Putin Putinism Vladimir Putin Yeltsin
Post comments:0 Comments

1 February 2023 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender Source: Ekho Moskvy Kremlin.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the birth date of Boris Yeltsin, democratic Russia’s…

Arseny Roginsky: ‘We live in a world of unsettled outcomes’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:December 22, 2022
Post category:1990s Arseny Roginsky Gorbachev Human Rights Defenders International Memorial Memorial Mikhail Gorbachev Putin Putinism Russia Russian Federation Soviet Union Vladimir Putin
Post comments:0 Comments

18 December 2022 A speech by the late Arseny Roginsky, co-founder and long-time head of Memorial, that he delivered on 14 November 2014 in Brussels to mark the award to…

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Gorbachev as a Litmus Test for Russian Liberalism

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:September 7, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Podrabinek Gorbachev Human Rights Defenders Journalists Mikhail Gorbachev Putin Putinism Vladimir Putin
Post comments:0 Comments

3 September 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Mikhail Gorbachev’s death can be looked on as a chemically pure experiment for determining the current state of mind among Russian liberals.…

Read more about the article On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev – Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights

On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev – Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:September 7, 2022
Post category:Andrei Sakharov Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights Boris Altshuler Gorbachev Human Rights Defenders Lev Ponomarev Svetlana Astrakhantseva Valery Borshchev
Post comments:0 Comments

Lev Ponomarev Boris Altshuler Svetlana Astrakhantseva Valery Borshchev 1 September 2022 Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights Gorbachev, Sakharov and our…

Aleksandr Tsipko: ‘Russians are tired of empire.’ On why the Soviet Union disappeared

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 2, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Tsipko Gorbachev Individuals Political Scientists Putin Putinism Stalin Stalinism Yeltsin
Post comments:0 Comments

Photo: Institute of the Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2 December 2021 by Aleksandr Tsipko Aleksandr Tsipko is a Russian social philosopher and poltical scientist and chief researcher…

Read more about the article Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Hunt the Banker: The Confessions of a Russian Ex-Oligarch’ by Alexander Lebedev [translated by Arch Tait]

Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Hunt the Banker: The Confessions of a Russian Ex-Oligarch’ by Alexander Lebedev [translated by Arch Tait]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 6, 2021
Post category:Aleksandr Lebedev Book Reviews Gorbachev Martin Dewhirst book review Putin Putinism
Post comments:0 Comments

6 October 2021 By Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Hunt the Banker: The Confessions of a Russian Ex-Oligarch by Alexander Lebedev, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait. Hardback. 256pp £20. …

Congress of the Intelligentsia: “30 years ago, freedom and democracy were defended”

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:August 4, 2021
Post category:Congress of the Intelligentsia Gorbachev Perestroika Russian Congress of the Intelligentsia Statements Valery Borshchev Yeltsin
Post comments:0 Comments

21 July 2021 Picture: Valery Borshchev, co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, co-signatory of the following letter, member of the organising committee “30 years of the people’s victory over the…

Monique van Ravenstein reviews ‘Red Wave’ by Joanna Stingray

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 30, 2021
Post category:Book Reviews Gorbachev Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein book review Musicians Perestroika The Arts
Post comments:0 Comments

30 June 2021 By Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein reviews Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground by Joanna Stingray and Madison Stingray, Doppelhouse Press, 2020, pp. 416, Los Angeles,…

Dmitry Bykov: Without Vzglyad

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 28, 2021
Post category:Dmitry Bykov Gorbachev Putin Putinism Writers
Post comments:0 Comments

22 June 2021 by Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Echo Moskvy] Looking at the fate of Anatoly Lysenko, you can’t help but ask yourself who…