2 June 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoyevsky, a Crime and its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham. Hardback 432pp ISBN-9780241235942 (Allen Lane, London, 2021) 2021 was book-ended…
Week-ending 13 November 2020 Photo of journalist Aleksandr Pichugin. (Photo: Roman Golotvin via Committee to Protect Journalists) On 11 November 2020 Nizhny Novgorod journalist Aleksandr Pichugin, administrator of the Telegram…
This week our guest on the podcast is Tatyana Voltskaya, journalist and poet from St Petersburg, against whom a criminal case was opened in April for so-called "fake news". Among…
6 May 2020 Oleg Orlov, board member of Memorial Human Rights Centre, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Over the past decade,…
18 May 2020 Dmitry Makarov is co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [an adaptation of the original source: Foreign Policy] Human rights defenders are concerned that…
Week-ending 15 May 2020 Source: Wikipedia Tatiana Golikova, ministser of health: 'We never manipulate official statistical data.' Source: Russia defends its ‘exceptionally precise’ Covid-19 death data Russian officials have defended…
28 April 2020 Source: Facebook Well, here I am, reporting. An investigator for especially important cases visited our little hut. He liked it in the village. The investigator assured me…
25 April 2020 Source Facebook They have me in their sights. They are preparing to bring a criminal case under the new Article 207.1 about fake news because of my…
25 April 2020 Author: Pavel Mylnikov Source: Deutsche Welle Photo: Facebook Tatyana Voltskaya interviewed an intensive care doctor about the work of St. Petersburg hospitals and the shortage of doctors…
19 April 2020 Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya gazeta correspondent, member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for Human Rights Source:…