Aleksandr Verkhovsky: We live in such times that liquidation of an organisation is not the worst thing that can happen

20 March 2023 Katya Orlova in conversation with Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of the Sova Centre, laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета. Европа]…

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“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Aleksandr Verkhovsky 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis that monitors radical-nationalist activities, hate crime, hate speech in the mass…

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Aleksandr Verkhovsky: The bill on foreign agents submitted to the State Duma is quite sensational.

18 November 2020 By Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of the Sova Information and Analytical Centre, member of the Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, and laureate of the…

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Aleksandr Verkhovsky: Everything has already been said about the injustice of the verdict passed in the case of Svetlana Prokopyeva. But we need to talk about something else.

7 July 2020 Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of the Sova Center for Information and Analysis, member of the Human Rights Council of the Russian President, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group…

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Aleksandr Verkhovsky: Anyone can become an extremist. On the ‘Strategy for Combating Extremism’

2 June 2016 Leonid Nikitinsky interviews Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director, Sova Centre Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] The Strategy to Combat Extremism' does not contain definitions of specific crimes,…

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Aleksandr Verkhovsky: Humiliating monitoring, or what is wrong with Moscow’s COVID-19 tracking system

29 May 2020 Aleksandr Verkhovsky, director of the Sova Centre for Information and Analysis  Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Forbes] The Moscow government's use of the mobile app called Social…

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