Sergei Davidis: Coordination, unlike organized unification, is useful
8 May 2023 Source: Facebook As someone who has long been observing the opposition’s unification and even participated in a few efforts of that sort, I now see no point…
Vera Vasilieva on those imprisoned: ‘Under the hammer of repression’
20 July 2021 by Vera Vasilieva, independent journalist, head of Radio Svoboda's project 'Svoboda and Memorial,' laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода]…
Legal Case of the Week: Dmitry Gudkov arrested, his home searched and released without charge
Week-ending 4 June 2021 Photo of Dmitry Gudkov: Wikipedia On 1 June 2021 Russian opposition politician and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov was arrested, his dacha was searched. On…
Law of the Week: Duma adopts three bills restricting participation in public life and toughening existing legislation on ‘undesirable’ organisations.
Week-ending 21 May 2021 On 18 May the State Duma passed three bills that would bar individuals who have supported civil society and religious organizations declared extremist or terrorist from…
Podcast No. 60: Simon & Sergei – with Lev Shlosberg
This week our guest on the podcast is Lev Markovich Shlosberg. Lev Markovich is a Russian politician, a civil society and human rights activist, and a journalist. He is chair…