Rights in Russia Update

20 March 2026

Write to Russia: Aleksei Sokolov, unlawfully charged with treason for exposing torture and other human rights violations in places of detention

Podcast Then & Now #40 [Part 2]: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Tanya from Mariupol

News of the Week

Quotes of the Week. ‘Artyom Kamardin, Yegor Shtovba and Nikolai Dayneko are prisoners of conscience’ – Amnesty International

Anna Karetnikova: ‘Today they’re convicts, tomorrow they’re heroes of the special military operation.’

Leonid Nikitinsky: On the law on conscription

Leonid Nikitinsky: The Chernov case is a bush bearing ripe fruit

Aleksandr Podrabinek: A letter by Maria Bontsler

Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Dictators are getting worried

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Nobody about nothing

Sergei Lukashevsky: On the film ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’

Podcast Then & Now #32: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Pavel Talankin

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