Ivan Pavlov: About tomorrow’s protests. Or more precisely, what Team 29 and I will be doing on the day.

20 April 2021 By Ivan Pavlov, lawyer [advocat], head of Team 29 Source: Facebook  Journalists and lawyers – these are the people whose professional rights will be violated. Some will…

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Pavel Chikov: Linguistic experts from the Investigative Committee found incitement to protest, to contact lawyers and other criminal activity in DOXA’s video

14 April 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International human rights group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Telegram] Today in Basmanny district court during a hearing on choosing…

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Karinna Moskalenko: “The presumption of innocence and other standards are not in fact being observed in Russian courts.”

31 March 2021 Karinna Moskalenko, lawyer, international legal expert, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, on the “Have Your Say” podcast with Zoya Svetova and Anna Stavitskaya (30 March 2021…

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Life without Justice – Pavel Chikov and Ivan Pavlov on the case of Aleksei Navalny

Pavel Chikov, head of Agora International human rights group Evgeniya Albats, chief editor of The New Times Ivan Pavlov, lawyer, head of Team 29 5 April 2021 An extract from…

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Podcast No. 64: Simon & Sergei – with Sergei Golubok

This week our guest on the podcast is Sergei Golubok, a lawyer [advokat] from St. Petersburg. The topics we discuss on the podcast include: how to become a lawyer; lawyers…

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Karinna Moskalenko: A quarter of a century with Europe?

12 March 2021 by Karinna Moskalenko, attorney, international lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] February 28 this year marks a quarter of…

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Pavel Chikov: Human rights as a concept are under attack

27 February 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook] So, I'm going to write a rare provocative post.  It’s…

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Genri Reznik: On principles of the legal profession

Pictured: Genri Reznik 22 February 2021 by Genri Reznik, advocate, vice-president of the Russian Federal Bar Association, first vice-president of the Moscow Bar Association, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group…

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Fines for links with ‘foreign agents’? Galina Arapova explains

17 February 2021 Radio Liberty interviews Galina Arapova, director and chief lawyer of the Media Rights Centre, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…

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