Press releases, weekly bulletins and other publications by human rights organisations in Russia
30 May 2020 Hi. This is Natasha Korchenkova The week started with some good news: our client the radio engineer Gennady Kravtsov was set free after six years in Mordovia’s…
30 May 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
23 May 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
23 May 2020 Hi! Tanya Torocheshnikova here. I’m not going to say anything about the weather – you can see that for yourselves. It’s what’s off limits that I’ll tell…
19 May 2020 Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre (also in English) The charges against Aleksei Bessarabov and Vladimir Dudka have been fabricated, their confessions obtained through torture with electric shocks…
13 May 2020 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group On 12 May 2020, it was 44 years since the founding of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG). This year, because of the coronavirus…
15 May 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
9 May 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
2 May 2020 Hi. It’s Tanya Torocheshnikova. This week, Putin made his usual address to the people. This time, the Pechenegs and Polovtsy didn’t show up to help. We did…
2 May 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…