Podcast No. 109. Simon & Sergei – with Varvara Pakhomenko
Our guest on the podcast this week is Varvara Pakhomenko. Varvara Pakhomenko has been a human rights activist for a very long time. Back in her native Tomsk she was…
Podcast No. 108. Simon & Sergei – with Nikolai Kavkazsky
Our guest on the podcast this week is Nikolai Kavkazsky. Nikolai Yurievich Kavkazsy is a Russian civil society activist, human rights defender and opposition politician. He is one of the leading…
Podcast No. 107. Simon & Sergei – with Nikita Petrov
Our guest on the podcast this week is the historian Nikita Vasilievich Petrov. Nikita Petrov is deputy chair of the board of the Memorial Research and Information Centre (which is based…
Podcast No. 106. Simon & Sergei – with Lev Ponomarev
Lev Ponomarev (left) with the late Andrei Babushkin Our guest on the podcast this week is Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev. Lev Ponomarev is a human rights activist, head of the For Human…
Podcast No. 105. Simon & Sergei – with Andrei Kalikh
Our guest on the podcast this week is Andrei Kalikh, a human rights researcher, journalist, and activist with a special interest in the issue of corruption. In the past, Andrei…
Podcast No. 104. Simon & Sergei – with Kirill Koroteev
Our guest on the podcast this week is the lawyer Kirill Koroteev, head of international legal practice of Agora International Human Rights Group. Previously, Kirill worked as legal director at…
Podcast No. 103. Simon & Sergei – with Vyacheslav Shilov
Our guest on the podcast this week is the Russian cartoonist Vyacheslav Shilov. He was born in 1970 in Potsdam, Germany. Until recently Vyacheslav Shilov, a member of the Union…
Podcast No. 102. Simon & Sergei – with Evgenia Chirikova
Our guest on the podcast this week is the Russian civil society activist now living in Talinn, Estonia, Evgenia Chirikova. Evgenia Chirikova is especially well known for her campaign to…
Podcast No. 101. Simon & Sergei – with Mikhail Savva
THIS PODCAST IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESENT TIME WE HAVE REPLACED THE PODCAST WITH MIKHAIL SAVVA WITH AN EARLIER PODCAST WE RECORDED WITH HIM IN NOVEMBER 2020. Our…
Podcast No. 100. Simon & Sergei – with Dmitry Piskunov
The guest on our latest podcast is Dmitry Piskunov, a lawyer and human rights activist from Russia who works for the Moscow-based human rights organization OVD-Info. OVD-Info monitors politically motivated…