Karinna Moskalenko: How surprising!
10 March 2026 by Karinna Moskalenko Source: Facebook How surprising! What, excuse me, has the Supreme Court actually allowed? The Supreme Court is apparently unaware that, since 1 January 1992,…
Lawyers in Russia have started to face limitations on their freedom of movement
27 December 2024 Lawyers in Russia have started to face limitations on their freedom of movement. Source: Initiative-2018 [Facebook] The Russian Ministry of Justice has restricted a lawyer from Yekaterinburg…
Vadim Prokhorov: Unbroken. On the case of Aleksandr Shestun
27 October 2024 Source: Facebook Today marks the 60th birthday of a prominent Russian political prisoner and former head of Moscow’s Serpukhov district, Aleksandr Shestun. We rarely had any personal…
Crushing the defence: Ilya Shablinsky on how the jailing of Aleksei Navalny’s lawyers can be likened to the repressions under Stalin and the Third Reich
19 October 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky Source: spektr.press This is something we truly haven't witnessed since the early days of the Soviet Union. Three lawyers - who were defending a…
Rights in Russia interview – with Anton Burkov on the Russian legal system and lawyering in Russia
Mary Page talks with Dr Anton Burkov, a native of Ekaterinburg where for many years he worked with the human rights NGO Sutyazhnik. In 2001 he received the FEMIDA award…
Karinna Moskalenko: They want to force Russian lawyers to snitch on their clients and each other
19 April 2023 by Karinna Moskalenko, lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group What is wrong with the Integrated Information System of the Russian Bar and…
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Galina Arapova: ‘We still go to court to defend media workers because the right to freedom of expression needs defending.’ [Spektr]
28 March 2023 Galina Arapova, director of the Mass Media Defence Centre and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group member Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Spektr] A year has…
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Maria Eismont: ‘The verdict in the case of Dima Ivanov […] deserves public attention’
8 March 2023 by Maria Eismont, lawyer, laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group human rights award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Since the New Year, judges have been permitted to pronounce…
Rights in Russia interview – with leading Russian human rights lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko
Mary Page talks with leading Russian human rights lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko. In 2001 she won the first ever case against the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights…
‘A kind of legal striptease.’ Genri Reznik’s speech in court on the Ministry of Justice’s suit to close down the Moscow Helsinki Group
27 January 2023 by Genri Reznik, lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Advokatskaya ulitsa, 27 January 2023] This week, the Moscow Municipal Court liquidated…
