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Elena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov in 1979. Photo: HRW

Boris Altshuler: On the centenary of Yelena Georgievna Bonner’s birth

15 February 2023 by Boris Altshuler, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group “Anyone who does not regret the breakup of the USSR has no heart,  and anyone who thinks we…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Say “emigration”, you get a fine, say “gay”, you get a prison sentence

18 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Russian authorities have an extremely peculiar tradition: as soon as the abominations they have committed become a flood, they immediately start…

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

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…

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Valery Borshchev: Liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group is part of a deliberate policy to destroy the human rights movement

1 February 2023 by Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Собеседник] On 25 January, the Moscow City Court liquidated Russia's oldest human rights…

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Mikhail Savva: On Rashism, or what doesn’t officially exist – Russian state ideology

30 January 2023 by Mikhail Savva, doctor of political sciences, professor, member of the expert council of the Center for Civil Liberties / Центр Громадянських Свобод  Source: Website of Mikhail…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Kremlin ‘Gifts’ to Cuba

29 January 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV According to reports from Cuba’s independent Diario de Cuba, there are plans to create a Centre for Economic Transformations in Havana, with…

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The Wolves, the sheep, and the watchmen: Aleksandr Podrabinek on the harm of compromises

25 January 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Radio Svoboda Who is going to blame a wolf for being a predator? That’s his nature: to chase down the weak, drag lambs…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Rejoinder to Boris Akunin [from 23 January 2013]

23 January 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook Exactly 10 years ago, I published an article in Ezhednevnyi Zhurnal, and now I’ve reread it with a certain grim satisfaction. And…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Last Hut in Line

21 January 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV  There are no signs of war on Moscow’s streets whatsoever. Windows are not papered over in anticipation of bombings, the wail of…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Governmental Neurosis or the Power of Superstition

9 January 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook On December 29th, when all good people were preparing to greet the New Year, the Russian government approved a bill equating maps…

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