“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Olga Gnezdilova 25 questions

Professor Bill Bowring’s guest this week on “25 Questions” is Olga Gnezdilova. Olga Gnezdilova is a lawyer from Voronezh who is currently living in Berlin and works for the Stichting…

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Podcast No. 78. Simon & Sergei – with Vanessa Kogan

This week our guest on the podcast is Vanessa Kogan, director of the Legal Initiative Project. Over the years, the project's lawyers have provided legal assistance to thousands of people.…

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Justice Initiative director Vanessa Kogan on her work in Russia (interview with Kommersant)

19 December 2020 US citizen Vanessa Kogan, director of the Justice Initiative project, lived in Russia for 11 years, and here she married and had two children. On 2 December,…

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CSO of the Week: Stichting Justice Initiative, whose director has been given two weeks to leave Russia.

Week-ending 4 December 2020 Stichting Justice Initiative is an NGO that works to provide legal support to victims of human rights violations connected to armed conflict and counter-terrorism operations, torture…

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Quote for the Week. Vanessa Kogan: “They saw their chance to get rid of me, essentially. I think that it’s purely connected to the work that I do and my organisation does.”

Week-ending 4 December 2020 “They saw their chance to get rid of me, essentially. I think that it’s purely connected to the work that I do and my organisation does.…

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