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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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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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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Rights in Russia interview – with Lisa Sundstrom on Russia, civil society, human rights and international law

Mary Page Lisa Sundstrom Mary Page talks with Lisa Sundstrom, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia where she teaches courses in international…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Jens Siegert on the current state of civil society in Russia

Mary Page talks with Jens Siegert about the state of civil society in Russia these days. Jens Siegert is a writer, political analyst and consultant for CSOs who for many…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights Law at Middlesex University

Mary Page talks with Philip Leach, Professor of Human Rights Law at Middlesex University and an attorney - solicitor in UK parlance. Until February this year he was Director of…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Dmitri Makarov on the human rights situation in Russia

Mary Page talks with Dmitri Makarov, a leading human rights activist and Council member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, where Dmitri has also worked as programme coordinator. He has also…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Andreas Umland on the situation in Ukraine

Mary Page talks with Andreas Umland, a political scientist and expert in modern Russian and Ukrainian history and politics, about the current situation in Ukraine following the Russian invasion. He…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Andrea Gullotta, an expert on the history of the Gulag

Mary Page talks with Andrea Gullotta, lecturer in Russian at the University of Glasgow. Andrea is an expert on the history of the Gulag and president of Memorial Italia (http://www.memorialitalia.it/)…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Vyacheslav Bakhmin, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group

Mary Page talks with Vyacheslav Bakhmin, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group and chair of the board of the Sakharov Centre. One of Russia's leading experts on civil society and…

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