Aleksandr Podrabinek: Peacemakers line up at the Kremlin Gates

29 May 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV How do we stop Russia’s war against Ukraine? This topic has become fashionable in international relations. Just who hasn’t signed up to…

Continue ReadingAleksandr Podrabinek: Peacemakers line up at the Kremlin Gates

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,…

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

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…

Continue ReadingAleksandr Podrabinek: Russophobia as a new crime

Leonid Nikitinsky: Every nation has its own heroes. The Moscow Helsinki Group presented its last (for now) legally-permitted awards.

27 April 2023 by Leonid Nikitinsky, 2011 MHG award laureate  Source: The Moscow Times [original source: Novaya Gazeta] On the eve of the expected decision of the Supreme Court of the…

Continue ReadingLeonid Nikitinsky: Every nation has its own heroes. The Moscow Helsinki Group presented its last (for now) legally-permitted awards.

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…

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

Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Violence Genie – a dangerous instrument of resistance can return to political struggle

20 April 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV In Ukraine, the number of militarized formations made up of Russian citizens is rising. Soon a “Siberian Battalion” may be added to…

Continue ReadingAleksandr Podrabinek: The Violence Genie – a dangerous instrument of resistance can return to political struggle

Aleksandr Podrabinek: A Stalinist Sentence for Vladimir Kara-Murza

17 April 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV Twenty-five years for a public statement criticizing the war and political repressions. This is a vivid demonstration of what is going on…

Continue ReadingAleksandr Podrabinek: A Stalinist Sentence for Vladimir Kara-Murza

Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Great Terror Lite

12 April 2023 By Aleksandr Podrabinek   Source: Vot-Tak.TV With the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the moderately severe authoritarian dictatorship in Russia began swiftly transforming itself into a merciless…

Continue ReadingAleksandr Podrabinek: The Great Terror Lite

Leonid Nikitinsky: Members of Human Rights Council ‘in exile’ send Council head Fadeev letter in defence of Evgeny Roizman

31 March 2023 by Leonid Nikitinsky, PhD in law, journalist, laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group award. Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета. Европа] The clearly selective use of…

Continue ReadingLeonid Nikitinsky: Members of Human Rights Council ‘in exile’ send Council head Fadeev letter in defence of Evgeny Roizman