Ivan Pavlov: About tomorrow’s protests. Or more precisely, what Team 29 and I will be doing on the day.

20 April 2021 By Ivan Pavlov, lawyer [advocat], head of Team 29 Source: Facebook  Journalists and lawyers – these are the people whose professional rights will be violated. Some will…

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Andrei Makarevich on a charity event in support of political prisoners: “There is no justice left at all. All you can do is help people who are in trouble.”

9 April 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Дождь] In Moscow the “For Your Freedom and Ours” charity evening, an online event organised by the Sakharov Centre, is being held…

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Alla Frolova on how OVD-Info’s lawyers work: “We are not a country of law, but of orders handed down from above.”

5 March 2021 Elena Kriven, a journalist with Lawyer's Street (Advokatskaya Ulitsa) spoke with Alla Frolova, coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info and recipient of the Moscow-Helsinki Group prize, about…

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Podcast No. 64: Simon & Sergei – with Sergei Golubok

This week our guest on the podcast is Sergei Golubok, a lawyer [advokat] from St. Petersburg. The topics we discuss on the podcast include: how to become a lawyer; lawyers…

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Podcast No. 63: Simon & Sergei – with Irina Biriukova

This week our guest on the podcast is Irina Biriukova, a lawyer at the Public Verdict Foundation. The issues we discuss with Irina include: getting started as a lawyer in…

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Aleksei Navalny’s closing remarks in court: Russia will be happy.

20 February 2021 On 20th February Moscow City Court heard an appeal against the decision of the Simonovsky district court to replace the suspended sentence of politician Aleksei Navalny with…

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Genri Reznik: On principles of the legal profession

Pictured: Genri Reznik 22 February 2021 by Genri Reznik, advocate, vice-president of the Russian Federal Bar Association, first vice-president of the Moscow Bar Association, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group…

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Podcast No. 61: Simon & Sergei – with Danil Beglets

This week our guest on the podcast is Danil Beglets. Danil Beglets is the first defendant in the 'Moscow case' convicted to a real sentence to have been released on…

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Law of the Week: New laws impose higher fines on proteters, ‘foreign agents’ and social media companies.

Week-ending 26 February 2021 On 24 February 2021 President Putin signed into force laws that increase fines imposed on protesters found guilty of disobeying police officers, on persons and organisations…

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