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Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny announces he will return to Russia on 17 January 2021

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 15, 2021
Post category:Aleksei Navalny FSB Person of the Week Putinism Right to a Fair Trial Right to Liberty and Security Right to Life
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Week-ending 15 January 2021 On 13 January 2021 Aleksei Navalny announced he would be returning to Russia on 17 January 2021. This week Russia’s Military Investigative Committee (a department subordinate…

Leonid Nikitinsky: How the president reacts, or doesn’t, to human rights defenders.

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 5, 2021
Post category:Journalists Leonid Nikitinsky Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Putinism
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11 December 2020 By Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya gazeta columnist, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for the Protection of Human…

Law of the Week: New law enables individuals to be designated as ‘foreign agents.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 1, 2021
Post category:Freedom of Expression Law of the Week Putinism Right of Association
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Week-ending 1 January 2020 On 30 December 2020 President Putin signed into force a number of laws including legislation that enables the authorities to designate individuals and public entitities as…

Monique van Ravenstein reviews Catherine Belton’s ‘Putin’s People. How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 29, 2020
Post category:Book Reviews Monique van Ravenstein Putinism
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29 October 2020 By Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein reviews Putin's People. How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton, William Collins,…