Yury Shevchuk: They’re making cannon fodder and subhumans of us [VoA]

29 June 2022 An interview with Yury Shevchuk by Danila Galperovich for the Russian service of Voice of America Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Голос Америки] Leader of the band…

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Yury Shevchuk: We have to fight for peace, which means playing concerts for peace, and specifically in Russia. […] They need us more in Russia.

2 June 2022 Journalist Stanislav Kucher, who lives in the United States, published on his Facebook page a telephone conversation with the group DDT’s leader and Moscow Helsinki Group human…

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Monique van Ravenstein reviews ‘Red Wave’ by Joanna Stingray

30 June 2021 By Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein reviews Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground  by Joanna Stingray and Madison Stingray, Doppelhouse Press, 2020, pp. 416, Los Angeles,…

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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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An open letter in support of the Belarusian people from Russian musicians

15 August 2020 Pictured: Andrei Makarevich, musician and winner of a Moscow Helsinki Group Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] "The statistics regarding the violence inflicted on the…

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