31 March 2021 By Arseny Levinson, human rights defender, lawyer, an expert of the Institute of human rights, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook]…
Week-ending 19 February 2021 On 16 February St. Petersburg's Third Court of Cassation upheld on appeal the 13-year prison sentence handed down to Yury Dmitriev, Gulag historian and long-time head…
24 January 2021 Request for an urgent critical reaction within the Council of Europe to the adoption of new repressive laws in the Russian Federation that further restrict the activities…
Today our podcast is dedicated to Arseny Borisovich Roginsky (1946-2017) who passed away on this day, 18 December, three years ago. We were lucky enough to do a long interview…
Arseny Borisovich Roginsky, Soviet-era dissident and founder and long-term chair of the International Memorial Society, died on 18 December 2020. For more information, see 'Arseny Roginsky,' Wikipedia See also on…
8 November 2020 Viktor Kogan-Yasny, writer, political and civil society activist, advisor to the chair of the Yabloko party Source: Moscow Helsinki Group In memory of Yury Fedorovich Orlov Now…
22 September 2020 By Vera Vasilyeva, freelance journalist, co-ordinator of the Radio Liberty project ‘Freedom and Memorial’, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group Human Rights Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…
26 April 2013 An interview with Arseny Roginsky, chair of the board of the International Memorial Society Rights in Russia: What is the International Memorial Society today? Arseny Roginsky: Today Memorial is…
This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Elena Zhemkova (pictured), executive director of International Memorial. International Memorial is one of the oldest civil society organisations in Russia and…
22 March 2020 By Jens Siegert Source: Russland-Blog Is Memorial in danger? Yes, probably. At the end of last year, the Moscow city prosecutor's office filed a total of 28…