15 January 2023 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to our new Russian-language podcast, Then & Now, with me, Teresa Cherfas. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 everything,…
Our guest on the podcast this week is Varvara Pakhomenko. Varvara Pakhomenko has been a human rights activist for a very long time. Back in her native Tomsk she was…
Our guest on the podcast this week is Nikolai Kavkazsky. Nikolai Yurievich Kavkazsy is a Russian civil society activist, human rights defender and opposition politician. He is one of the leading…
Lev Ponomarev (left) with the late Andrei Babushkin Our guest on the podcast this week is Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev. Lev Ponomarev is a human rights activist, head of the For Human…
Our guest on the podcast this week is Andrei Kalikh, a human rights researcher, journalist, and activist with a special interest in the issue of corruption. In the past, Andrei…
Our guest on the podcast this week is the lawyer Kirill Koroteev, head of international legal practice of Agora International Human Rights Group. Previously, Kirill worked as legal director at…
Our guest on the podcast this week is the Russian cartoonist Vyacheslav Shilov. He was born in 1970 in Potsdam, Germany. Until recently Vyacheslav Shilov, a member of the Union…
Our guest on the podcast this week is the Russian civil society activist now living in Talinn, Estonia, Evgenia Chirikova. Evgenia Chirikova is especially well known for her campaign to…
THIS PODCAST IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR THE PRESENT TIME WE HAVE REPLACED THE PODCAST WITH MIKHAIL SAVVA WITH AN EARLIER PODCAST WE RECORDED WITH HIM IN NOVEMBER 2020. Our…
This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Sergei Poduzov (pictured), co-chair of Chelovek i Zakon, a leading Russian human rights organisation founded in Yoshkar-Ola, capital of the Republic…