Week-ending 26 February 2021 This week a Moscow court upheld Aleksei Navalny's conviction in the Yves Rocher embezzlement case on appeal but reduced the sentence by 1.5 months to 2.5…
12 February 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, head of the NGO For human rights and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] "The content…
4 February 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group The Constitutional Court has removed the practice of ‘amicus curiae’ (‘friends of the court’) from its rules of procedure - Paragraph 34.1 on…
Photo: Svetlana Vidanova / Novaya Gazeta 10 February 2021 Novaya gazeta's Lilit Sarkisian interviews Marina Litvinovich, member of the Moscow Public Oversight Commission Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета]…
28 January 2021 How do authorities justify police violence in peaceful protests? When does the law allow you to ignore the demands of representatives? An extract Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…
8 February 2021 Pictured: Sergei Lukashevsky, director of the Sakharov Centre, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, one of the signatories of the appeal Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая…
8 February 2021 Maria Alekhina, Dmitry Baranovsky, Anastasia Vasilyeva, Nikolai Lyaskin, Oleg Navalny, Liubov Sobol, Oleg Stepanov, Liusya Shtein, Konstantin Yankauskas and Kira Yarmysh stand accused of urging people to…
12 February 2021 Hi. Ksenia Ufimtseva here, Editor of the Team 29 website. This is the last time you’ll read my newsletter, as today, 12 February, is my last day…
Pictured: Sergei Pashin 28 January 2021 Svobodnaya Pressa (‘Free Press’) asked retired federal judge and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Sergei Pashin, to comment on the federal trial against…
4 February 2021 The court’s decision on 2 February 2021 to imprison Aleksei Navalny is politically motivated and arbitrary. It has nothing to do with law. Source: Memorial Human Rights…