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…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek on objectors and deserters: ‘No One Wanted to Go to War’ 

22 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek: Source: Radio Svoboda War repeals many laws, but it does not repeal the desire to live. Some accept war as a challenge and rush…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Decline into Stalinism

19 December 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV  In his column for Vot-Tak, Russian journalist and human rights activist Aleksandr Podrabinek discusses the breakdown of the judicial system in the…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: School – to arms! Why Russian adolescents have 70 hours of war a year

11 November 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The waves of military-patriotic hysteria raised by state propaganda have reached our schools. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov has announced the introduction of…

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Aleksandr Cherkasov: No one could have imagined ‘37 coming in the guise of ‘41

20 October 2022 Aleksandr Cherkasov, human rights activist, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Radio Svoboda] For a long time and at great length,…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: Grom nuclear training exercises are like a repetition of recent history

27 October 2022  by Aleksandr Podrabinek  Source: Vot-Tak.TV The Grom nuclear training exercises under way right now in Russia are not a thunderclap [grom] out of a clear blue sky.…

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Aleksandr Cherkasov: The People Who Shot at Our Fathers

26 June 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov, member of the board of Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre Source: Novaya gazeta General Surovikin commands the “South” group in Ukraine. In August 1991,…

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Memorial: On the massive missile attack against Ukraine

10 October 2022 by the Board of Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre Source: Telegram On October 10, the Russian Federation launched a massive strike against the territory of Ukraine consisting…

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Sergei Parkhomenko: ‘I do not encourage banditry, armed robbery, marauding, or mercenaries.’

Sergei Parkhomenko: Wikipedia 26 September and 3 October 2022 Two recent posts on Facebook by Sergei Parkhomenko, journalist and civil society activist Source: Facebook 26 September 2022, Facebook Here is…

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Aleksandra Krylenkova: ‘You can kill, beat, torture, seize and imprison a person. But you can’t make a person fight.’ 

Sasha Krylenkova: Facebook Aleksandra (Sasha) Krylenkova is a human rights activist from St. Petersburg who has worked with Memorial and served as a member of the board of that organisation.…

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