Sergei Davidis: ‘A grant recipient is not the agent of a grant giver’
11 February 2025 by Sergei Davidis Source: Facebook Following the USAID freeze, there's a lot of rhetoric on social media premised on the idea that foreign grants are a bad…
Russian Helsinki Group: A law allowing migrant children not to be admitted to school must not be passed!
8 December 2024 An appeal from human rights advocates to the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education, the Commissioner for Human Rights of…
Lev Shlosberg: The horrific new year of 1995 marked a new era for Russia
2 January 2025 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook The "New Year's assault" on Grozny was 30 years ago. The Minute by Minute project is recreating this horrific assault day by…
Lev Shlosberg: ‘All of Russia will become a “foreign agent”.’
5 November 2024 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook There is nothing stupider than to brand a representative of Russian culture as a ‘foreign agent’. The Ministry of (In)Justice has set…
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 377: A search, convictions and a new charge
5 October 2024 OVD-Info is a Russian civil society organisation that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here.…
News of the Week
Week-ending 10 May 2024 Russia’s War against Ukraine The Ukrainian Defence Ministry says a Russian prison officer in occupied Berdyansk implicated in alleged torture of Ukrainians has been ‘eliminated.’ (RFE/RL,…
‘I am concerned and keeping my finger on the pulse’ Perm region human rights ombudsman Igor Sapko on the FSB searches of civil society activists
19 May 2023 According to Igor Sapko, all the individuals whose homes have been searched are witnesses in the criminal case, not defendants Source: 59.ru Igor Sapko, Perm region Human…
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Putin expels Moscow Helsinki Group member Nikolai Svanidze from Human Rights Council
17 November 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Putin has issued a decree removing several individuals from the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, including Moscow Helsinki Group member…
Igor Kalyapin: Concerning the accusation made by Mansur Soltaev
27 January 2022 by Igor Kalyapin, member of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights, laureate of the prize of the Moscow Helsinki Group for his defence of human rights…
