Sergei Davidis: Today’s sentence – yet another reason to support political prisoners

19 August 2025 by Sergei Davidis Source: Facebook [On 19 August 2025 Sergei Davidis, one of the leaders of Memorial, was sentenced in absentia to six years in a penal…

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On the closed trial of Evgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk. Commentaries by Elena Sannikova & Aleksandr Podrabinek

In 2020, Evgenia Berkovich staged a play, Finist the Brave Falcon, that had been written by Svetlana Petriychuk in 2019. In 2022, the play received a Best Costume Designer award…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: A Fake Verdict. What Investigative Committee chair Aleksandr Bastrykin said in support of those prosecuted under Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code [Novaya gazeta]

9 July 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, journalist, PhD in law, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s prize for human rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета. Европа] The first…

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