Podcast No. 84. Simon & Sergei – with Grigory Vaypan.
This week our guest on the podcast is the lawyer and legal expert Grigory Vaypan. Until recently, Grigory was head of the Litigation Department at the Institute for Law and…
“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Sergei Trutnev 25 questions
Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week to answer his 25 questions is Sergei Trutnev, a human rights lawyer from Perm. For many years Sergei Trutnev worked with Perm Regional Human…
“Freedom of speech – it’s a matter of self-respect.” Galina Arapova on why she has been defending the rights of journalists in Russia for a quarter of a century
27 July 2021 Galina Arapova in conversation with Katerina Fomina Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Glasnaya media project] The Mass Media Defence Centre and its director Galina Arapova have…
Kirill Koroteev on the legalisation of same-sex unions after the ECtHR’s decision
14 July 2021 by Kirill Koroteev, head of international practice at Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: t.me/pchikov/4451] Yesterday, everyone was excited by the news…
Genri Reznik: The forced self-liquidation of Team 29 is another blow to the human rights movement
19 July 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Фонтанка] The association of lawyers, lawyers and journalists known as Team 29 no longer exists. After the organisation's website was blocked, its…
Galina Arapova on the dawn of ‘neo-censorship’: the pressure on Russian journalism and the new law on out-of-court blocking
8 July 2021 an interview with Galina Arapova director of the Mass Media Defence Centre and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights award by Novaya Gazeta correspondent Daria…
Galina Arapova on the investigation into the Proekt journalists: ‘A new interpretation of the statute of limitations’.
29 June 2021 An interview with Galina Arapova, director of the Mass Media Defence Centre Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: МБХ медиа] The searches of staff of Proekt Media carried…
“What? This is a trick from the Gulag!” Genri Reznik on the offer by Ivan Safronov’s investigator to sell him a call to his mother.
29 June 2021 Pictured: Genri Reznik, a lawyer and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] Investigator for especially important cases of the FSB,…
Karinna Moskalenko: Torture in Russia – how it goes
30 June 2021 by Karinna Moskalenko, attorney, international lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] On 28 June 2021, a group of lawyers…
ECtHR awarded Irkutsk victim of police torture 11,000 euros
21 June 2021 by Irina Sergeeva, lawyer, Moscow Helsinki Group volunteer Source: Moscow Helsinki Group On 15 June 2021, the European Court of Human Rights came to a decision on…