Sergei Davidis: Coordination, unlike organized unification, is useful
8 May 2023 Source: Facebook As someone who has long been observing the opposition’s unification and even participated in a few efforts of that sort, I now see no point…
Sergei Davidis answers our 10 questions
14 February 2022 by Sergei Davidis Rights in Russia is asking a number of human rights activists, commentators and experts ten questions. You can read their answers here. 1) Was there a…
Sergei Davidis: Ukraine is carrying out a mission of liberation, defending freedom, human rights and international law
21 September 2022 Source: Facebook Putin and Shoigu, it seems, have outdone themselves in their lying. Literally every phrase of Putin's speech should be understood in reverse. The crimes, intentions…
Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial: Statement on the so-called ‘referendums’
21 September 2022 Statement by Sergei Davidis and Oleg Orlov, co-chairs of Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Source: Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial On 20 September 2022, the puppet ‘councils’…
Sergei Davidis: A real choice is made from available and achievable options
12 September 2022 by Sergei Davidis Source: Facebook Yes, as before, it’s better to participate in the “elections” than not, and it’s worth heeding the recommendations of Smart Voting. Honor…
Sergei Davidis: In the present war, we are not talking about defending Russia
10 September 2022 by Sergei Davidis Source: Facebook Like many people in recent days, I am thrilled and delighted over the “miracle on the Oskol.” A miracle wrought, actually, by…
Statement by Oleg Orlov and Sergei Davidis on the missile strikes against Ukrainian power plants
On 11 September 2022, Russian missiles struck a number of large thermal power plants in various regions of Ukraine. One of the Kremlin's leading propagandists, Dmitry Kiselev, speaking on the…
Memorial Human Rights Centre [Центр защиты прав человека «Мемориал»] elects two co-chairs of its governing body
1 August 2022 Source: Telegram While they need little introduction, we asked the two co-chairs to answer questions about the Centre's future activities: Oleg Orlov and Sergei Davidis talk about…
Sergei Davidis: Ten years on from Bolotnaya
7 May 2022 By Sergei Davidis Source: Facebook Lots of people go back over the past, trying to reach a view on one thing or another with the benefit of…
Sergei Davidis on why Russian society is reluctant to condemn the threat of war – despite largely disagreeing with it
Sergei Davidis 24 January 2022 An interview with Sergei Davidis published by OpenDemocracy, republished here by kind permission Natalia Shkurenok in conversation with Sergei Davidis who heads the program for…