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Read more about the article ‘We ask the international community to support Zhenya and Svetlana.’ Press release on the prosecution of Evgeniya Berkovitch and Svetlana Petriichuk

‘We ask the international community to support Zhenya and Svetlana.’ Press release on the prosecution of Evgeniya Berkovitch and Svetlana Petriichuk

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 10, 2023
Post category:Artists Freedom of Expression Individuals Statements The Arts
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Eugenia Berkovitch and Svetlana Petriichuk 9 May 2023 by Nana Grinstein, Nika Parkhomovskaya and Yury Shekhvatov This press release is published in the original English On May 4, 2023, Russian…

Read more about the article Lev Shlosberg: The prosecution of Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk is further evidence of the total degradation of the judicial and law enforcement system

Lev Shlosberg: The prosecution of Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk is further evidence of the total degradation of the judicial and law enforcement system

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 9, 2023
Post category:Freedom of Expression Individuals Lev Shlosberg Politically Motivated Prosecutions Politicians The Arts
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5 May 2023 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook The criminal case against Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk is a case of the Hongweibing against culture. It's about the same as…

Aleksandr Podrabinek: A Private Concert Hall vs. Pro-Regime Scum

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:December 2, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Podrabinek Freedom of Expression Human Rights Defenders Journalists Liya Akhedzhakova Putin Putinism The Arts Vladimir Putin Vot-Tak.TV
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30 November 2022 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The war against Ukraine, political repressions, mobilization, price rises, and the population’s noticeable impoverishment—all this could drive anyone, even the most balanced…

Read more about the article Yury Shevchuk: We have to fight for peace, which means playing concerts for peace, and specifically in Russia. […] They need us more in Russia.

Yury Shevchuk: We have to fight for peace, which means playing concerts for peace, and specifically in Russia. […] They need us more in Russia.

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 6, 2022
Post category:Artists Facebook Musicians The Arts Ukraine War Yury Shevchuk
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2 June 2022 Journalist Stanislav Kucher, who lives in the United States, published on his Facebook page a telephone conversation with the group DDT’s leader and Moscow Helsinki Group human…

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and its Punishment’ by Kevin Birmingham

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 2, 2022
Post category:Book Reviews Literature Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas book review The Arts
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2 June 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoyevsky, a Crime and its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham. Hardback 432pp ISBN-9780241235942 (Allen Lane, London, 2021) 2021 was book-ended…

Read more about the article Stanislav Dmitrievsky: ‘Russian wooden architecture is as unique a phenomenon as the Russian avant-garde or the Russian ballet.’

Stanislav Dmitrievsky: ‘Russian wooden architecture is as unique a phenomenon as the Russian avant-garde or the Russian ballet.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:September 19, 2021
Post category:Architecture Human Rights Defenders Stanislav Dmitrievsky The Arts
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Stanislav Dmitrievsky 2 September 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] Larger towns, especially major cities, have an urgent problem to which their city’s historic preservationists are trying…

Monique van Ravenstein reviews ‘Red Wave’ by Joanna Stingray

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 30, 2021
Post category:Book Reviews Gorbachev Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein book review Musicians Perestroika The Arts
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30 June 2021 By Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein reviews Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground by Joanna Stingray and Madison Stingray, Doppelhouse Press, 2020, pp. 416, Los Angeles,…

Read more about the article Quote for the Week. Natalia Zviagina, director of AI’s Moscow office: “We call on the Russian authorities to immediately drop all charges against Yulia Tsvetkova.”

Quote for the Week. Natalia Zviagina, director of AI’s Moscow office: “We call on the Russian authorities to immediately drop all charges against Yulia Tsvetkova.”

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 10, 2021
Post category:Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Natalia Zviagina Quote for the Week The Arts Yulia Tsvetkova
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Week-ending 9 April 2021 “This absurdity has lasted almost a year and a half. A woman has been criminally charged with ‘producing pornography’ simply for drawing and publishing images of…

CSO of the Week: Ultranationalists disrupt Artdocfest in Moscow

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 10, 2021
Post category:Artdocfest Civil Society Organisation of the Week Freedom of Expression The Arts
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Week-ending 9 April 2021 Artdocfest is a documentary film festival run by the organisers of the non-fiction films National Award Laurel Branch (ANO Laurel Award) and Vitaly Mansky. This week supporters of separatists…

CSO of the Week: Side by Side LGBT Film Festival

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 17, 2020
Post category:Civil Society Organisation of the Week Freedom of Expression Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion LGBT Rights Prohibition of Discrimination The Arts
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Week-ending 13 November 2020 On Thursday, 12 November 2020, police and staff of the Rospotrebnadzor, the government consumer watchdog, attended the opening of the annual LGBT film festival run by…