13 October 2020 By Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, and journalist: Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy] Aleksandr Lukashenko has presented Belarusians with an intractable moral dilemma. But moral dilemmas…
Solzhenitsyn with Heinrich Böll in Langenbroich, West Germany, 1974. Photo: Bert Verhoeff / Anefo. Wikipedia On 8 October 1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Solzhenitsyn stated at the time:…
9 September 2020 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich remains the last member of the Belarusian opposition’s Coordination Council at liberty in the country. She published an appeal addressed, among others, to…
23 July 2020 Lev Rubinshtein, poet, essayist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy] We have to hand it to them – the narrative they’re imposing has certain merits. We…
9 June 2020 Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Sobesednik] Even the sluggish are hurt by Nikolai Platoshkin’s house arrest. Platoshkin managed to fall under…
2 June 2020 Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy] The pandemic has led to the complete self-exposure of the Russian state. It no longer…
17 May 2020 Viktor Shenderovich, writer, journalist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Today marks 70 years since the birth…