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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
Ivan Pavlov on mobilization: ‘The authorities will round up whoever they can catch. They’ll take whoever they can, either by persuasion or by force.’
21 September 2022 an interview with Ivan Pavlov, human rights lawyer and recipient of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for human rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Холод] On 20…