Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week answering his 25 questions is Aleksei Sokolov, a prisoners' rights activist from Ekaterinburg who heads the human rights NGO Legal Basis (Pravovaya osnova). You…
14 May 2020 By Aleksei Sokolov Source: Facebook 13 May is a date I’ll remember my whole life. On 13 May 2009, I was brazenly arrested by people in plain…
18 April 2020 Lev Ponomarev, head of For Human Rights, a human rights NGO, and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы, 18.04.2020] We…
This week Simon and Sergei are joined by Aleksei Sokolov (pictured right), human rights defender from Ekaterinburg and who heads the rights group Pravovaya osnova. Listen to the Podcast here. You…