Quotes of the Week
Week-ending 6 February 2026 “The Russian authorities are once again abusing vague ‘extremism’ laws to criminalize human rights work, erase independent civil society and intimidate people whose identity does not…
Olga Sadovskaya: ‘Like everyone else, all Momotov has left is Russian justice’
13 October 2025 by Olga Sadovskaya Source: Facebook Viktor Momotov, the former chair of the Council of Judges, must really be missing the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) right…
Leonid Nikitinsky: One Last Piece of Strasbourg Pie
12 February 2025 The ECtHR has handed down a ruling regarding the amendments to the Criminal Code and Code of Administrative Offences adopted after the start of the Special Military…
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Human rights activists recall the achievements of the International Protection Centre [Kavkazsky uzel]
24 December 2024 Source: Kavkazsky uzel The International Protection Centre was established on 24 December 1994. The organization unites professional lawyers specializing in human rights protection, civil society activists and…
Leonid Nikitinsky: A slice of Strasbourg pie for ‘foreign agents’
23 October 2024 By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta Russia will undoubtedly pay no compensation to so called 'foreign agents' who have won their case at the European Court of…
Karinna Moskalenko: “We can’t return to the Council of Europe. Sooner or later, we’ll have to join all over again.”
18 October 2022 Interview with lawyer and Moscow Helsinki Group member Karinna Moskalenko, who talks about how we can live now without the European Court of Human Rights and what…
Leonid Nikitinsky: The Swan Song of the European Court of Human Rights – the Strasbourg Court’s decision on the complaints from ‘foreign agent’ NGOs was both an encyclopedia of state tyranny and a collection of amusing stories from Russian ‘legal life’
16 June 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, journalist, doctor of jurisprudence, and laureate of the MKhG [Moscow Helsinki Group] human rights prize, special to Novaya Gazeta. Europe Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…
Mikhail Fedotov: ‘An independent court is a good thing―but double-edged’
3 June 2022 Mikhail Fedotov, a lawyer and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights prize, talks about how Russia could create a supranational human rights body to replace…
Elena Lukyanova: This is a state not bound by law
8 June 2022 Aleksandr Zhelenin interviewed Elena Lukyanova for Rosbalt Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Rosbalt] "Russians are now going to live in a closed space, cut off from all…
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Sergei Babinets: In the light of recent events […] there will be no payments, naturally, just as there will be no changes when it comes to liberalizing legislation on civil society organizations
14 June 2022 by Sergei Babinets, a human rights lawyer who until recently was chair person of the Committee Against Torture. He currently heads the Team against Torture Source: Facebook…
