Aleksandr Podrabinek: Conflict of Interest – on the trial of Vladimir Kara-Murza

14 March 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The trial of Vladimir Kara-Murza began in Moscow City Court on 13 March at 4pm, two hours before the end of the…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek on Vladimir Kara-Murza: This wonderful man is worth every effort to defend him

6 March 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Facebook So, the start of the trial in the case of Vladimir Kara-Murza will begin in Moscow City Court on Monday, 13 March,…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: A jokester pulls the wool and the death penalty in Russia

6 March 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Sometimes a small news item lost in the stream of other news can give you a much broader picture of present-day Russian…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Of Trials and Puppet Shows, or There Is No Crime Without Punishment

28 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Ukrainian human rights organisation Centre for Civil Liberties, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year,…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Who Are the Putinalias Intended For?

25 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV  Everyone understood long ago that the rallies in support of the regime are nothing but government-ordered and propagandistic in nature. These actions’…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: According to Doctor of Law Bastrykin, 6-7 years’ imprisonment for a post on social networks is just the thing.

20 February 2023 All Quiet on the Western Front: Bastrykin's interview on the eve of the presidential address tackles purely propaganda issues, not legal ones by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya…

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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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Leonid Nikitinsky: On the eviction of the Sakharov Centre

27 January 2023 by Leonid Nikitinsky, columnist for Novaya Gazeta, candidate in legal sciences, Moscow Helsinki Prize laureate Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Свободное пространство, 27.01.2023] The Sakharov Centre is…

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‘Silence is now unacceptable.’ Leonid Nikitinsky on why the statement from former members of the Presidential Council of Human Rights on the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group is so important

26 January 2023 Leonid Nikitinsky, columnist for Novaya Gazeta, candidate in legal sciences, Moscow Helsinki Prize laureate Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Свободное пространство] For those in the know, the…

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Eva Merkacheva: A court has abolished the Moscow Helsinki Group – the trial will go down in history

25 January 2023 by Eva Merkacheva, journalist, rights activist, recipient of a Moscow Helsinki Group prize  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: МК] On Wednesday [25 January] in a case brought…

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