Week-ending 24 December 2021 The 'foreign agent' law remains an instrument widely used by the Russian authorities to repress freedom of expression and freedom of association. The court proceedings to…
Week-ending 17 December 2021 This week, as the legal proceedings to close down the International Memorial Society and the Memorial Human Rights Centre continued on the basis of alleged violations…
Week-ending 10 December 2021 On 1 December 2021, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court upheld an earlier decision by the Soviet district court in NIzhny Novgorod to find human rights defender Igor…
Week-ending 3 December 2021 The authorities began a year ago to place media outlets, journalists and now lawyers on the “foreign agents” list. [...] There were 11 media entities on…
Week-ending 26 November 2021 Anti-extremism legislation is being used to prosecute peaceful, political opposition activities. In particular, the designating of organisations as 'extremist' is used to bring politically motivated prosecutions…
Wee-ending 19 November 2021 The Russian legislation on extremism has been used, among other things, to prosecute Jehovah's Witnesses and to outlaw organisations supporting Aleksei Navalny. This week Fedor Telin,…
Week-ending 12 November 2021 On 12 November 2021, reacting to the news that the Russian authorities were seeking to close down the Memorial society, Secretary General of the Council of…
Week-ending 5 November 2021 On 2 November 2021 RFE/RL reported that the Russian authorities had detained three men whom they suspected of illegally obtaining the personal data of Federal Security…
Week-ending 29 October 2021 In 2017 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation designated Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist organisation, banning the faith's organisations in Russia. Since then scores of…
Week-ending 22 October 2021 The Russian authorities continue to use the 'foreign agent' law as a repressive instrument against freedom of expression and association. This week a court dismissed a…