Rights in Russia Update

7 February 2025

Write to Russia: Daniil Klyuka – sentenced to 20 years in a strict-regime penal colony for transferring money to his cousin in Ukraine

News of the Week

Quotes of the Week: RSF, Amnesty International

Sergei Davidis: People First

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Psychiatric hospital now named after Andrei Snezhnevsky

Anna Karetnikova: ‘Everything and everyone will be remembered by name’

Vera Vasilieva: On the cases of Aleksandr Markin, Sergei Maryin and Igor Puzanov

‘We will remember him when the songs of freedom are played.’ Aleksandr Cherkasov on Valery Abramkin (19 May 1946 — 25 January 2013)

Head of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights announces possible re-opening of Moscow’s GULAG History Museum

Plaques honouring purge victims returned to walls of Pushkin Museum

Ed Glezin: 37 years ago, the first ever Soviet publication of Vasily Grossman’s novel ‘Life and Fate’

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