Roskomnadzor blocks Moscow Helsinki Group website [RBK]

8 February 2023 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: RBK] Access to the website of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), the recently liquidated human rights organization, has been restricted in…

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Valery Borshchev: Liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group is part of a deliberate policy to destroy the human rights movement

1 February 2023 by Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Собеседник] On 25 January, the Moscow City Court liquidated Russia's oldest human rights…

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Valery Borshchev: Trying to destroy us really is beyond belief

27 December 2022 by Valery Borshchev, co-chair of Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Собеседник].  CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95 I don't think…

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Russia plans to build multi-purpose prison camp settlements. Commentaries by Ilya Shablinsky, Valery Borshchev and Sergei Pashin [Argumenty i fakty]

14 October 2022 Sergei Pashin (pictured left) says: 'This is a bad kind of 'unification,' when innocent people, who are only under detention to await trial, are lumped in together…

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On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev – Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights

Lev Ponomarev Boris Altshuler Svetlana Astrakhantseva Valery Borshchev 1 September 2022 Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights Gorbachev, Sakharov and our…

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Ilya Shablinsky: “Our law enforcement structures […] no longer feel bound by any restrictions, or even the Constitution.” [Nezavisimaya gazeta]

12 May 2022 by Ekaterina Trifonova, 'Stamped “official use only,” Constitution and laws change: The Russian citizen has been transformed from a subject of the law to an object of…

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Valery Borshchev on the new internal rules for prisons: “The bad habits that go with the profession and the repressive mindset of prison officers are such that they are unlikely to endeavour to comply with the new rules”

Valery Borshchev 31 March 2022  by Ekaterina Trifonova, correspondent for Nezavisimaya gazeta Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Nezavisimaya gazeta, 31 March 2022] Prisoners will hope for the best where…

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Valery Borshchev: We have very little information about what is happening in the army in connection with the coronavirus. About the postponing of the Victory Day parade

In the photo: Valery Borshchev, Co-Chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group 17 April 2020 Valery Borshchev is co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Русская…

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Valery Borshchev: Human Rights Defenders Urge Rejection of Proposed Constitutional Amendments

10 March 2020 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Russian human rights defenders have issued a public appeal to the judges of the Constitutional Court, to the heads of…

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Valery Borshchev: Police officers punished for exceeding their powers at rallies, but so no one noticed

17 February 2020 Valery Borshchev is co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group The National Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have punished law enforcement officers who…

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