Rights in Russia interview – with Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International’s Moscow office from 2003 to 2017

This month Mary Page talks with Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International’s representative office in Russia from 2003 until 2017. Originally from Gatchina near St. Petersburg, Sergei Nikitin studied the…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Nataliya Sekretareva, head of the legal team at Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre

Mary Page talks with Nataliya Sekretareva, a Russian human rights lawyer who works as head of the legal team at the Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre. Before that, Nataliya worked…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Anton Burkov on the Russian legal system and lawyering in Russia

Mary Page talks with Dr Anton Burkov, a native of Ekaterinburg where for many years he worked with the human rights NGO Sutyazhnik. In 2001 he received the FEMIDA award…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Anna Bowles on her recent trip to Ukraine

Mary Page talks with Anna Bowles, a freelance editor working for publishing houses in central London. Anna holds an MA in Russian Studies from the School of Slavonic and Eastern…

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Rights in Russia interview – with leading Russian human rights lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko

Mary Page talks with leading Russian human rights lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko. In 2001 she won the first ever case against the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights…

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“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Margret Satterwaite 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Margret Satterwaite. Margret Satterwaite is a human rights activist who focuses on social rights, reproductive rights, the rights of blind…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Robert van Voren on Andrei Sakharov, human rights & Russia’s war against Ukraine

Mary Page talks with Robert van Voren, chief executive of Human Rights in Mental Health - Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) and a Sovietologist by education. He is currently…

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“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Marina Agaltsova 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Marina Agaltsova. A human rights lawyer, Marina Agaltsova worked for Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow until its recent enforced…

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“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Ernest Mezak 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Ernest Mezak, journalist, human rights activist and lawyer from the Republic of Komi in Russia who is currently living in…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Dmitry Dubrovsky on Russia, human rights and Russia’s war against Ukraine

Mary Page talks with Dmitry Dubrovsky. Dr Dubrovsky is a fellow at the Central and East European Law Initiative, Prague, and professor at the Free University (Briva Universitate). He has taught international…

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