Lev Ponomarev: “Which Russia would you prefer? The Russia of Patrushev, or the Russia of Misik?”

4 May 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] ("THIS COMMUNICATION (MATERIAL) WAS CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED…

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Lev Ponomarev: “I’m rubber and you’re glue; your words bounce off me and stick to you.” Extremists go after the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

19 April 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Pictured left is Lev Ponomarev, human-rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group One of the authors of the text,…

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Lev Ponomarev: The FSB is setting fire to the Caucasus. A new story about masked men

2 April 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source:: Echo Moskvy] Something unimaginable is happening before our very…

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‘They were using secret documents’: how the trial began to challenge the status of ‘media-based foreign agent’

24 March 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Дождь] On 24th March, the first session was held of the administrative appeal of the human rights defender,  a member of the…

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Lev Ponomarev: On the latest developments in the ‘Ingush case’

19 March 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender and member of the Moscow Helskinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] "THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED…

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Lev Ponomarev on the closing down of the movement For Human Rights: ‘I’m lucky I’m still alive.’

2 March 2021 Liubov Chizhova interviews Lev Ponomarev (pictured), human rights activist and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода] Russian human rights…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: Un-Real Politik. How Dr. Lev Ponomarev earned the title “Russia’s Enemy No. 1”

27 February 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society (SPCh), laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MKhG) Prize for…

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Lev Ponomarev: “I am not tired. I am not going anywhere.”

2 March 2021 By Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы, 2.03.2021] ‘THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) HAS BEEN CREATED AND…

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CSO of the Week: For Human Rights, closing down as a result of latest tightening of ‘foreign agent’ law

Week-ending 5 March 2021 On 1 March 2021 veteran human rights activist Lev Ponomarev announced the NGO, For Human Rights, would close on account of the recent legislation enabling individual…

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