Boris Altshuler: Remembering human rights defender Andrei Babushkin (28 January 1964 – 14 May 2022)

14 March 2023 by Boris Altshuler, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новые известия] Andrei Babushkin, who passed away in May last…

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Aleksandr Cherkasov: ‘A feeling of impenetrable gloom.’ On the death of Sergei Grigoryants

Photo: Nikita Mouraviev 16 March 2023  By Aleksandr Cherkasov Source: The Moscow Times [Русская служба] Source: Facebook Sergei Ivanovich Grigoryants, who passed away on the night of Tuesday, 14 March,…

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‘All over again, I’m missing the scent of your bonfires on Anzersky.’ Yury Brodsky on Francis Greene [from 2006]

Yury Brodsky 27 May 2022 We continue a series of publications in memory of the late Francis Greene (1936-2022) with this extract from Solovki. Labyrinth of Transformations by Yury Brodsky…

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Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group award, has died

Photo: Yabloko party 14 May 2022  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Andrei Babushkin was born in 1964 in Moscow region. He graduated from the faculty of philosophy of Moscow State University.…

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Memorial Human Rights Centre: Sergei Adamovich Kovalev, human rights defender, 1930 – 2021

9 August 2021 We are saddened to learn of the passing of Sergei Kovalev Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Sergei Adamovich Kovalev (2 March 1930 - 9 August 2021) died…

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Ekaterinburg human rights defender Anna Pastukhova has died

5 May 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group In Ekaterinburg on the evening of 4 May, Anna Pastukhova, the head of the Ekaterinburg Memorial Society, passed away. The cause of death…

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