Leonid Nikitinsky: Kolya the Knight
12 September 2024 By Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya gazeta The very embodiment of the Russian and Soviet intelligentsia, someone whose roots lay in a different historical epoch, Nikolai Svanidze may…
Martin Dewhirst: Remembering J. C. Q. Roberts (1933-2024)
23 May 2024 by Martin Dewhirst Photo: from the website of J. C. Q Roberts Younger and, I suspect, not so younger people in the UK who are interested in…
Boris Altshuler: Remembering human rights defender Andrei Babushkin (28 January 1964 – 14 May 2022)
14 March 2023 by Boris Altshuler, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новые известия] Andrei Babushkin, who passed away in May last…
Aleksandr Cherkasov: ‘A feeling of impenetrable gloom.’ On the death of Sergei Grigoryants
Photo: Nikita Mouraviev 16 March 2023 By Aleksandr Cherkasov Source: The Moscow Times [Русская служба] Source: Facebook Sergei Ivanovich Grigoryants, who passed away on the night of Tuesday, 14 March,…
Aleksandr Cherkasov: Tales of Alik
8 November 2022 In memory of journalist and human rights’ activist Aleksandr Mnatsakanian by Aleksandr Cherkasov, exclusive for Novaya Gazeta: Europe Alik Mnatsakanian. Photo: Facebook From the Novaya gazeta editor…
Martin Dewhirst remembers the life of Francis Greene, 1936-2022
24 May 2022 by Martin Dewhirst Photo of Francis Greene: Khakasiya Inform (2012) Francis was the most genuinely modest and genuinely generous person I have ever met. I first spoke…
On the late Francis Greene, by his friends at Memorial
17 May 2022 Moscow A statement by friends of Francis Greene at Memorial Francis Greene has passed away. A huge loss. He was an honourable friend, and among the very…
Sergei Nikitin remembers Andrei Babushkin
14 May 2022 Source: Facebook Andriusha was a very unusual person, it was always a huge pleasure to talk to him. He had a great way of expressing his thoughts,…
Elena Topoleva remembers Andrei Babushkin
14 May 2022 Source: Facebook Last night Andriusha Babushkin passed away. An old comrade, a real human rights defender, irrepressible, tireless, persistent and principled, touching and romantic... He was one…
Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group award, has died
Photo: Yabloko party 14 May 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Andrei Babushkin was born in 1964 in Moscow region. He graduated from the faculty of philosophy of Moscow State University.…
