Leonid Nikitinsky: “Motivated by hatred and enmity”
13 December 2024 by Leonid Nikitinsky The State Duma has increased the number of people who qualify for “humanitarian benefits”, something that will not please the recipients. On the seizure…
Leonid Nikitinsky on recent amendments to the legislation on ‘collusion’: killing two birds with one stone
10 December 2024 Amendments smuggled in to the Criminal Code, adopted by the State Duma, could indicate that top law enforcement officials already have targets in mind By Leonid Nikitinsky…
Leonid Nikitinsky: A Blunder
25 September 2024 Thanks to the presidential administration turning down proposed legislation on “insulting the authorities”, we can still get away with a joke or two by Leonid Nikitinsky Source:…
Leonid Nikitinsky: Sentences, yes; words, no. Russian lawmakers lay more mines across the field of law―to put away anyone prepared to call things by their proper names
29 June 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, PhD (Law), journalist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета. Европа] A la guerre comme à la guerre:…
Eva Merkacheva: On the ban on lawyers bringing electronic devides into penal colonies.
25 May 2021 By Eva Merkasheva, journalist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize, member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Московский комсомолец] On 25…
On the undermining of the foundations of law in Russia. Statement by Human Rights Defenders and Members of the Congress of the Intelligentsia
22 May 2021 Pictured left: Ilya Shablinsky, a legal expert, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and one of the signatories of the statement Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] On 4…
