Lev Shlosberg: Remembering Galina Starovoitova
20 November 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Twenty-four years ago, on 20 November 1998, at 10:35 p.m., Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova, one of the most formidable politicians of the post-Soviet…
Leonid Gozman: If they release me after 15 days, I would prefer leaving the country to death
9 September 2022 Leonid Gozman in conversation with Vera Chelishcheva Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Novaya Gazeta] A difficult conversation through prison bars with Leonid Gozman—about his first experience…
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Ilya Yashin is a political prisoner
26 July 2022 The politician Ilya Yashin has been remanded in custody on charges of disseminating ‘fake news’ about the Russian army Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial The human rights project…
Leonid Gozman: “Your Honour, the current leadership is already doomed”
30 June 2022 On 30 June, in Zamoskvoretsky District Court, Moscow, Leonid Gozman pursued Russia’s Ministry of Justice, which not long before had designated him a ‘foreign agent’. We report…
Boris Vishnevsky: They will be fine without rallies and rights. State Duma to consider a new bill restoring Soviet ‘freedom of assembly’
12 June 2022 By Boris Vishnevsky, politician, political commentator, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, member of the Yabloko party, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize in…
Lev Shlosberg: This Victory Day. Don’t confuse them
9 May 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook On 9 May 1945, the war ended and peace ensued. Only those who lived through that day understood what that day meant.…
Leonid Gozman: Non-compliance. Russians who did not approve of the war will rebuild the country. The important thing is not to try to make sense of the actions of this government
26 April 2022 by Leonid Gozman, written specially for Novaya gazeta. Europe Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Novaya Gazeta. Europe] I’ll try to manage this without getting upset and…
“We are living inside a catastrophe.” Lev Shlosberg on politics in wartime
16 April 2022 An interview with Lev Shlosberg Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] The leader of the Pskov branch of the Yabloko ['Apple'] Party, Lev Shlosberg, and…
Lev Shlosberg: Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences is intended to make people keep quiet
14 April 2022 By Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook My friends, first, my thanks to everyone for your concern and support. Let’s start with an aside: we’re all right. “We” because…
Lev Shlosberg: ‘Never before in our life have there been such accursed days.’
9 March 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Hello, friends. Once again we are living in another country. Our old life is gone and will never again be. In the…