Grigory Melkonyants: Final Speech at his Trial
12 May 2025 by Grigory Melkonyants 'At times, it felt like a real celebration - as if I were the guest of honour at a birthday party, not a defendant…
Write to Russia: Grigory Melkonyants – in custody for his work monitoring elections in Russia
Grigory Melkonyants has been held on remand since his arrest on 17 August 2023. He is co-chair of the civil society organisation Golos, an independent election watchdog, founded in 2000.…
Grigory Melkonyants: “I received the trendiest new government service: an apartment search”
5 October 2022 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement for the defence of voters' rights and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group It’s…
Grigory Melkonyants: On a bill on elections in wartime
10 March 2022 by Grigory Melkonyants Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook] In December 2021, the State Duma passed a bill on the regulation of remote electronic voting. My…
Grigory Melkonyants: A decision for which we had to wait ten years
16 November 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement for the defence of voters' rights and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…
Podcast No. 92. Simon & Sergei – with Grigory Melkonyants
Our guest this week on the podcast is Grigory Melkonyants. Grigory Melkonyants is a Russian human rights activist, lawyer and co-chair of Golos, the movement to protect voters' rights. This…
Grigory Melkonyants on why Golos has been classified as a ‘foreign agent’
22 October 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement for the defence of voters’ rights, an independent election-monitoring organisation, and laureate of the prize of the Moscow Helsinki…
Statement: Political analysts call on Ella Pamfilova not to prevent them researching the Russian elections
22 September 2021 Pictured: Elena Lukyanova, lawyer, professor at the Free University, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize and one of the signatories of the appeal Source: Moscow Helsinki…
New Golos report on election campaigning and the authorities’ mobilisation of the voters
14 September 2021 by Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of voters’ rights movement Golos and laureate of a Moscow-Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook] An analytical report on election…
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,]…
