Rights in Russia Update

17 January 2025

Write to Russia: Nina Slobodchikova – sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony for donating to support Ukraine

Podcast Then & Now #27 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Mikhail Shishkin

News of the Week: Navalny’s lawyers sentenced to terms in prison

Quotes of the Week: Amnesty International, HRW, CPJ

Anna Karetnikova: The place I left no longer exists

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Image of a dying Russia. On the creators of illusions

Ed Glezin: Gorbachev and the Intelligentsia – Ivanova, Zagladin, Sakharov [extracts]

Russian Helsinki Group: A law allowing migrant children not to be admitted to school must not be passed!

Lev Shlosberg: Freedom for Evgenia Berkovich, Svetlana Petriichuk, and all political prisoners

Lev Shlosberg: Why did de-Stalinization and—in essence—de-Bolshevization never happen in Russia?

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Memory Makers: the Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia’ by Jade McGlynn