Aleksandr Podrabinek: ‘One percent’ for the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin makes its repressive apparatus official

22 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Russian regime is making political and legislative efforts to construct a state system that is based on a unified ideology and,…

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Aleksandr Daniel: ‘Today’s opposition is much larger than in the Soviet era’ 

16 May 2023 an interview with Aleksandr Daniel - by Zoya SvetovaSource: Perm Centre for Historical Memory [original source: Novaya gazeta] Can we compare present-day dissidents with Soviet dissidents? What…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Russophobia as a new crime

15 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Kremlin’s indefatigable warriors for human rights are preparing another antisocial law in Russia—on the fight against Russophobia. The law promises to…

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Free Aleksandr Chernyshov! Statement by Perm Memorial

7 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory We, members of Memorial, consider the detention and remanding in custody of our colleague, Aleksandr Chernyshov, a long-time member of Perm…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: From 1783 to our day – Russia has come for the Crimean Tatars again

17 April 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV On 25 April, Russian security forces detained Crimean Tatar human rights activist Abdureshit Dzhepparov. Before doing so, they conducted a search of…

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Lev Ponomarev, Elena Kotenochkina, Oleg Elanchik: How to unite the opposition?

18 April 2023 Lev Ponomarev, Elena Kotenochkina, Oleg Elanchik of the Initiative group of the Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights  Source: Republic.ru This text was written by…

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Russia’s Informers. A discussion with Sergei Medvedev, Olga Romanova and Aleksandr Cherkasov [Radio Svoboda]

26 April 2023 Olga Romanova and Aleksandr Cherkasov on how the culture of denunciation has been reborn in Russia Source: Radio Svoboda Sergei Medvedev: In a year of war, denunciation culture…

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