Olga Romanova: Fishman on the country and Nemtsov
Olga Romanova 3 May 2022 Olga Romanova reviews Mikhail Fishman's new book: Преемник. История Бориса Немцова и страны, в которой он не стал президентом [The Successor. The history of Boris…
Memorial Human Rights Centre: The prosecution of Nizhny Novgorod opposition activists Natalia Rezontova and Roman Tregubov is unlawful and politically motivated
2 December 2021 The activists are being prosecuted for violating ‘sanitation’ rules in their local area after they called for people to join a demonstration in support of Aleksei Navalny…
Law of the Week: Igor Kalyapin fined under law on ‘undesirable foreign organisations’
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…
In Nizhny Novgorod, a court fines Igor Kalyapin, head of the Committee Against Torture, for links with an ‘undesirable organisation’
Igor Kalyapin 17 September 2021 Source: Polit.ru A Nizhny Novgorod court has fined the head of the Committee Against Torture (CAT) Igor Kalyapin 10,000 roubles for 'participating in the activities…
“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Stanislav Dmitrievsky 25 questions
Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on "25 Questions" is Stanislav Dmitrievsky, a human rights activist from Nizhny Novgorod. Today Stanislav Dmitrievsky is working on a number of human rights…