Rights in Russia interview – with Nataliya Sekretareva, head of the legal team at Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre

Mary Page talks with Nataliya Sekretareva, a Russian human rights lawyer who works as head of the legal team at the Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre. Before that, Nataliya worked…

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Statement by International Memorial Association in Support of Oleg Orlov

7 June 2023 Source: Memorial Society [Facebook] On 8 June, the trial will begin against our comrade, co-chair of the Memorial Centre for the Defence of Human Rights and board…

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Aleksandr Podrabinek: In search of Nazis

22 March 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV On 21 March in the early hours of the morning officers from the Investigative Committee and ‘Centre-E’ [anti-extremism police] searched the Moscow…

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Oleg Orlov: ‘They wanted fascism. They got it.’

14 November 2022 by Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the board of the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Source: Facebook [this article was first published in French translation by Mediapart] The bloody…

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Speech by Oleg Orlov at OSCE conference on the human dimension

28 September 2022 Speech by Oleg Orlov at an OSCE conference in Warsaw, Poland, on the human dimension Source: Telegram Dear colleagues, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,   Thank you for…

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Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial: Statement on the so-called ‘referendums’

21 September 2022 Statement by Sergei Davidis and Oleg Orlov, co-chairs of Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Source: Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial On 20 September 2022, the puppet ‘councils’…

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Statement by Oleg Orlov and Sergei Davidis on the missile strikes against Ukrainian power plants

On 11 September 2022, Russian missiles struck a number of large thermal power plants in various regions of Ukraine. One of the Kremlin's leading propagandists, Dmitry Kiselev, speaking on the…

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Memorial Human Rights Centre [Центр защиты прав человека «Мемориал»] elects two co-chairs of its governing body

1 August 2022 Source: Telegram While they need little introduction, we asked the two co-chairs to answer questions about the Centre's future activities: Oleg Orlov and Sergei Davidis talk about…

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Oleg Orlov: “I was merely stating a terrible truth: in our country, fascism has triumphed”

12 May 2022 On 29 April 2022, Oleg Orlov and Irina Galkova were detained in Red Square while staging an anti-war picket. Oleg is a former employee of the now-liquidated…

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Oleg Orlov: “We’re here to stay.” How activists, journalists and human rights defenders continue their work in Russia

4 May 2022 by Oleg Orlov, human rights defender and member of the board of the Memorial Centre An extract from 'Понаоставались тут. Как активисты, журналисты и правозащитники продолжают свою…

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