Rights in Russia Update

25 July 2025

Write to Russia: Anastasiya Berezhinskaya – sentenced to eight years in a penal colony for online posts supporting Ukraine

News of the Week

Quotes of the Week: HRW on ‘the tightening digital iron curtain’

Aleksandr Podrabinek: ‘Civil disobedience – otherwise there’s no stopping all this’

Aleksandr Podrabinek: A tough choice – on life during occupation

Leonid Nikitinsky: 100 Days to Utopia [Novaya gazeta]

Leonid Nikitinsky: Museum of Time – Dams and Sluices

Undercover mission: Zoya Svetova reviews Anna Karetnikova’s ‘I work for the FSIN’

Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB’ by Gordon Corera

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