Zoya Svetova: “There is a goal to ‘clean up the media’, and they are cleaning it up”

16 July 2021 by Zoya Svetova, journalist, human rights activist and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: МБХ медиа] When, in the spring of…

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Zoya Svetova: “This is an absolute desecration and mockery of public monitoring”

25 May 2021 Pictured: Zoya Svetova, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize. Photo by Svetlana Vidanova / Novaya gazeta Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Echo of Moscow, 05/25/2021]…

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Zoya Svetova remembers Mikhail Timenchik: “Mishka made light of the darkness, and it would retreat in disgrace.”

1 June 2021 Source: Facebook Can a photograph capture love and memory? What can a photograph tell us about a group of friends, their conversations, their jokes, their lives together?…

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“Navalny is on hunger strike for a prisoner’s legal right to a doctor from outside” An open letter to Patriarch Kirill by Zoya Svetova and others

14 April 2021 The photo (left) shows Zoya Svetova, journalist, human rights activist, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Zoya Svetova, Facebook] This…

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Open Letter on flagrant violations of the law and the Russian Constitution in response to peaceful protests

3 February 2021 Pictured: Zoya Svetova, journalist, human rights activist, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Open letter To the Minister of…

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Zoya Svetova: From Khodorkovsky to Navalny – Chronicle of a Kamikaze Justice System

25 January 2021 By Zoya Svetova Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [Ekho Moskvy] Hi, my name is Zoya Svetova. I am a columnist for MBK Media and I have been writing…

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Zoya Svetova: A New Year’s toast – to those who have been released!

29 December 2020 By Zoya Svetova, journalist, human rights defender, and a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода] In the last few…

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