Week-ending 15 January 2021 Photo: Perm 36. Wikipedia "The Russian State still has a chance to repay the debt owing to the 'children of the Gulag,' enabling them at last…
Week-ending 8 January 2021 Photo of Oleg Zykov: Wikipedia “By no means can policing functions and health-care functions be intermixed. As soon as they get mixed up, a sort of…
Week-ending 1 January 2020 "The Federal Security Service should be eliminated in its present form, and its activities over the entire period of its existence should be studied closely. Russia…
Week-ending 25 December 2020 'I want to say thank you to those who persecuted me, as well: the police officers, Center E officers, and the FSB officers, the investigators, judges, their assistants, the prosecutors,…
Week-ending 18 December 2020 This year Yury Dmitriev is one of the laureates of the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. About the prize: Every year…
Week-ending 11 December 2020 "The Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum finds the new package of bills submitted to the Russian State Duma in November 2020 alarming. There is…
Week-ending 4 December 2020 “They saw their chance to get rid of me, essentially. I think that it’s purely connected to the work that I do and my organisation does.…
Week-ending 27 November 2020 "The language [of the new bill on civil society groups] is very elastic, as it is in so many Russian laws of recent years. First of…
Week-ending 20 November 2020 Natalia Prilutskaya. Photo: Twitter “If adopted, the bill will drastically limit and damage the work not only of civil society organizations that receive funds from outside…
Week-ending 13 November 2020 "The Constitutional Court ought to declare laws unconstitutional if they create contradictions and problems. [...] There are several wordings that should be recognised as unconstitutional, but…