Podcast No. 85. Simon & Sergei – with Viktor Davydov
This week our guest on the podcast is the journalist and human rights activist Viktor Davydov. Victor Davydov studied at Kuibyshev Technical University and then at the History Department of…
‘Who, if not us?’: Supporters of Russian political prisoner Yuri Dmitriev speak out
19 August 2021 by Natalia Shkurenok, a Saint-Petersburg based journalist, writing for The New Times, Snob, Colta, ArtNews Paper and Novaya Gazeta. Source: OpenDemocracy Republished by kind permission What makes…
Sergei Lukashevsky on Vladimir Putin’s controversial article
15 July 2021 In the photo Sergei Lukashevsky, director of the Sakharov Center, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Russian Service “Voice of America”] The response…
Quote for the Week. Halya Coynash: “There are strong grounds for linking the persecution of Dmitriev with attempts by the current Russian regime to whitewash the darkest pages of Soviet history.”
Week-ending 30 July 2021 Yury Dmitriev "It is thanks to Dmitriev and his Memorial colleagues that thousands of Ukrainians, Russians and representatives of other nationalities have learned the fate of…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Even a very small event in US-Russian relations today looks like a breakthrough
27 June 2021 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny The question that came up in Geneva, for me, is a very real one. When tension grows, grows and grows, it becomes practically inevitable…
Vera Vasilieva on Aleksei Pichugin’s 18 years: the wrong sorts of changes
19 June 2021 by Vera Vasilieva, independent journalist, leader of Radio Svoboda's project Svoboda and Memorial, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода,…
Dmitry Bykov: Without Vzglyad
22 June 2021 by Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Echo Moskvy] Looking at the fate of Anatoly Lysenko, you can’t help but ask yourself who…
Simon Cosgrove reviews ‘The Dissidents’ by Peter Reddaway: ‘A profound tribute to the moral imperative to speak out in the name of truth and human rights in a repressive society.’
17 June 2021 By Simon Cosgrove Simon Cosgrove reviews The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990, by Peter Reddaway. Brookings, 337 pp., 2020, ISBN: 9780815737735 The Dissidents is an absorbing memoir…
Yury Samodurov: “My era has not fufilled its destiny”. With an introduction by Martin Dewhirst
7 June 2021 by Martin Dewhirst Over the years I have read many blogs by Yury Samodurov, but this was the first one that I felt should be made available…
Lev Ponomarev: Putin and Sakharov
17 May 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights advocate, member of the Moscow-Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group (original source: Эхо Москвы) “THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) WAS CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED BY…