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…
News of the Day: 8 December 2021
The Moscow Times: Russia on Wednesday confirmed 30,752 Covid-19 infections and 1,179 deaths. RFE/RL: A court in Moscow has sentenced a man to 32 months in prison for damaging a…
Lev Ponomarev on cases of torture at a penal colony in Irkutsk and problems with the investigation
9 July 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group (original source: Эхо Москвы) “THIS COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED…
Memorial Human Rights Centre: Salman Tepsurkaev, who was abducted, is a political prisoner
7 April 2021 Salman Tepsurkaev, a 19-year-old moderator of the oppositionist Telegram channel 1ADAT that reported on human rights violations in Chechnya, was abducted in early September 2020 Source: Memorial…
Arseny Levinson: On Arseny Roginsky, the responsibility of historians and legal proceedings regarding the opening of FSB archives
31 March 2021 By Arseny Levinson, human rights defender, lawyer, an expert of the Institute of human rights, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook]…
Remember the Date: 27 January is International Holocaust Day. On 27 January 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops.
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops. International Holocaust day is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of…
News of the Day: 23 January 2021
Amnesty International: Responding to the mass arrests and detention of more than 1.300 protesters gathered today in Moscow and across Russia to rally against the politically motivated detention of prominent…
ECtHR rulings of the Week: Articles 6 and 8; and Russia responds on Movsar Umarov
Week-ending 2 October 2020 This week there were two judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Russia, dealing with Article 8 and Article 6. Russia also responded to…
Lev Ponomarev: Ivan Liubshin and Svetlana Prokopyeva
18 August 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chair of the national civil society organisation For Human Rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy, 18.08.2020]…
Union of Journalists and Media Workers: Journalism is not a crime!
Union of Journalists and Mass Media Workers Source: Facebook 7 July 2020 Over the past week, journalists have become regular heroes of criminal news: the attack at a polling station…