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Lev Rubinshtein: Anyone who isn’t a complete imbecile understands exactly what’s going on.

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:July 31, 2020
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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…

Dmitry Bykov: Nikolai Platoshkin, class enemy of anti-Soviet Russia

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 17, 2020
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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…

Dmitry Bykov: In a country where everything is forbidden, no one needs anything. Except dinner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 12, 2020
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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…

Viktor Shenderovich on Valeriya Novodvorskaya: There have been few so clearsighted in our age

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 25, 2020
Post category:Human Rights Defenders / Valeriya Novodvorskaya / Viktor Shenderovich / Writers
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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…