Bill Bowring: Legal and human rights aspects of the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine

4 April 2022 by Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck College, University of London, Barrister Intervention at a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Committee on Legal Affairs…

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Our own national equivalent of the European Court of Human Rights is hardly possible

16 March 2022 by Ekaterina Trifonova Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Независимая газета] On 16 March Russia was expelled from the Council of Europe. Russian citizens will lose the opportunity…

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Podcast No. 104. Simon & Sergei – with Kirill Koroteev

Our guest on the podcast this week is the lawyer Kirill Koroteev, head of international legal practice of Agora International Human Rights Group. Previously, Kirill worked as legal director at…

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Igor Kochetkov: Council of Europe — Russia: Time to say Goodbye

18 March 2022  by Igor Kochetkov Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: журнал "Будущее" на платформе Republic] Something happened that has not happened for a very long time: the positions of…

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The last train to Strasbourg leaves on 15 September. Karinna Moskalenko in conversation with Leonid Nikitinsky

20 March 2022 Leonid Nikitinsky in conversation with Karinna Moskalenko Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: "Новая газета"] The European Court will continue to consider applications by Russians that have already…

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Philip Leach: A Time of Reckoning? Russia and the Council of Europe

Photo of Philip Leach: EHRAC 17 March 2022 By Philip Leach Philip Leach is professor of human rights law at Middlesex University. Until recently, he was director of the European…

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Grigory Vaypan: Leaving the Council of Europe: What will come next?

10 March 2022 by Grigory Vaypan Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: "Адвокатская улица"] The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a statement saying that the Russian government intends to withdraw from…

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Memorial Human Rights Centre: Statement on Russia and the Council of Europe

11 March 2022 Statement by Memorial Human Rights Centre Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre The Council of Europe is currently discussing the question of excluding Russia from the Council of…

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Vera Vasilieva on the case of Aleksei Pichugin: The last prisoner

19 June 2020 Vera Vasileva, an independent journalist, head of Radio Svoboda project ‘Freedom and Memorial’, and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for human rights defence in 2018…

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