Lev Shlosberg: He Chose Freedom – a word of thanks to Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev on the day of his birth

2 March 2023 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Novaya gazeta Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the USSR, was born on 2 March. This particular date has become a major event…

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Ivan Safronov stands in a defendant's cage prior to a hearing at the Lefortovsky district court in Moscow, 7 July 2020. Photo: Moscow News Agency PAP/EPA.

Lev Shlosberg on the sentencing of Ivan Safronov

7 December 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Ivan Safronov stands in a defendant's cage prior to a hearing at the Lefortovsky district court in Moscow, 7 July 2020. Photo:…

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Lev Shlosberg: Remembering Galina Starovoitova

20 November 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Twenty-four years ago, on 20 November 1998, at 10:35 p.m., Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova, one of the most formidable politicians of the post-Soviet…

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“We are living inside a catastrophe.” Lev Shlosberg on politics in wartime

16 April 2022 An interview with Lev Shlosberg Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] The leader of the Pskov branch of the Yabloko ['Apple'] Party, Lev Shlosberg, and…

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Lev Shlosberg: Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences is intended to make people keep quiet

14 April 2022 By Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook My friends, first, my thanks to everyone for your concern and support. Let’s start with an aside: we’re all right. “We” because…

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Lev Shlosberg: ‘Never before in our life have there been such accursed days.’

9 March 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Hello, friends. Once again we are living in another country. Our old life is gone and will never again be. In the…

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Lev Shlosberg: We shall be judged by what we did during the days of the Catastrophe.

1 March 2022 by Lev Shlosberg, a Russian politician, human rights activist, journalist, chair of the Pskov region branch of the Yabloko party and a member of the party’s federal political committee Source:…

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