Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Violence Genie – a dangerous instrument of resistance can return to political struggle

20 April 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV In Ukraine, the number of militarized formations made up of Russian citizens is rising. Soon a “Siberian Battalion” may be added to…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: St. Petersburg political scientist Evgeny Bestuzhev is a political prisoner

10 November 2022 Evgeny Bestuzhev has been remanded in custody for anti-war posts on the VK social network Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial On 9 November 2022, law enforcement officers searched…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek on objectors and deserters: ‘No One Wanted to Go to War’ 

22 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek: Source: Radio Svoboda War repeals many laws, but it does not repeal the desire to live. Some accept war as a challenge and rush…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Decline into Stalinism

19 December 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV  In his column for Vot-Tak, Russian journalist and human rights activist Aleksandr Podrabinek discusses the breakdown of the judicial system in the…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: School – to arms! Why Russian adolescents have 70 hours of war a year

11 November 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The waves of military-patriotic hysteria raised by state propaganda have reached our schools. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov has announced the introduction of…

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Aleksandr Cherkasov: No one could have imagined ‘37 coming in the guise of ‘41

20 October 2022 Aleksandr Cherkasov, human rights activist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] For a long time and at great length,…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Grom nuclear training exercises are like a repetition of recent history

27 October 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Grom nuclear training exercises under way right now in Russia are not a thunderclap [grom] out of a clear blue sky.…

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Vladimir Ryakhovsky: Legal Opinion on the Replacement of Alternative Civilian Service by Military Service through Mobilisation

29 September 2022 by Vladimir Ryakhovsky, attorney at law, member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Federal Law No. 113-FZ of 25…

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Aleksandr Cherkasov: The People Who Shot at Our Fathers

26 June 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov, member of the board of Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre Source: Novaya gazeta General Surovikin commands the “South” group in Ukraine. In August 1991,…

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Memorial: On the massive missile attack against Ukraine

10 October 2022 by the Board of Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre Source: Telegram On October 10, the Russian Federation launched a massive strike against the territory of Ukraine consisting…

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