Lev Ponomarev: Most people are still asleep, but they will have to wake up [Republic]

23 June 2022 Dmitry Kolezev interviews Lev Ponomarev for Republic [an extract] Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Republic] Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, designated in Russia as a foreign agent…

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Law of the Week: ‘Foreign agent’ law applied to Golos, Rosbalt and Republic

Week-ending 22 October 2021 The Russian authorities continue to use the 'foreign agent' law as a repressive instrument against freedom of expression and association. This week a court dismissed a…

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‘We want to create a large exhibition and call it “Do the Counting Yourself”. So it’s clear where the margin of error of several millions dead and repressed comes from’ – Roman Romanov, director of the GULAG History Museum [an interview with Republic]

Photo: Press service of the GULAG History Museum Roman Romanov. Source: Wikipedia 14 April 2021 Roman Romanov, director of the Museum of the History of the GULAG, on why the…

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