10 January 2022 By Viktor Shenderovich, writer, journalist, laureate of the Mosocw Helsinki Group Source: Facebook THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) WAS CREATED AND/OR DISSEMINATED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA OUTLET PERFORMING…
19 December 2021 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny Romantic nationalism, in which the people and the state are ascribed individuality and a soul in addition to a range of other peculiar features,…
11 December 2021 by Viktor Shenderovich, writer, journalist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group: Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy] I scrolled through Facebook. I see some commentators…
22 June 2021 by Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Echo Moskvy] Looking at the fate of Anatoly Lysenko, you can’t help but ask yourself who…
21 May 2021 Speech at a Yabloko event organised in honour of Andrei Sakharov, marking his centenary by Viktor Kogan-Yasny I apologise if this is a bit of an excursion…
Aleksandr Solzhentisyn and Heinrich Boell outside Boell's house. Photo by Bert Verhoeff (Wikipedia) On 13 February 1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was deported from the Soviet Union to West Germany, where he initially…
27 January 2021 By Boris Akunin, author Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Sometimes you want to say simple, trivial things. Commentators will no doubt say how naive I…
26 January 2021 Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy] The main result of Saturday’s demonstration was not even the comeback of protest activity (it’s…
19 January 2021 by Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet and journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Of course, I went to meet Navalny at Vnukovo, and the main feeling…
12 January 2021 By Dmitry Bykov, writer, poet, journalist: Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [originalsource: ЭхоМосквы] On why the Russian National Guard recently purchased special equipment for two billion rubles. What actually…