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Read more about the article ‘She always had her own opinion’. Galina Starovoitova’s assistant Ruslan Linkov on her murder and the servile majority that prevents the building of a democratic Russia

‘She always had her own opinion’. Galina Starovoitova’s assistant Ruslan Linkov on her murder and the servile majority that prevents the building of a democratic Russia

Galina Starovoitova [Wikipedia] 20 November 2023 by Andrei Presnyakov Source: Spektr.Press On 20 November 1998 one of the most notorious political murders of modern Russia took place. Galina Starovoitova, one…

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Read more about the article Lev Shlosberg: The prosecution of Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk is further evidence of the total degradation of the judicial and law enforcement system

Lev Shlosberg: The prosecution of Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk is further evidence of the total degradation of the judicial and law enforcement system

5 May 2023 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook The criminal case against Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriichuk is a case of the Hongweibing against culture. It's about the same as…

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Read more about the article Lev Shlosberg: The collapse of the state begins with its alienation from the individual

Lev Shlosberg: The collapse of the state begins with its alienation from the individual

13 April 2023 Lev Shlosberg, chairman of the Pskov Regional Branch of the Yabloko party, historian, journalist and holder of a Moscow Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group For…

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Read more about the article Journalists and human rights activists demand the release of Vladimir Kara-Murza [Spektr]

Journalists and human rights activists demand the release of Vladimir Kara-Murza [Spektr]

10 April 2023 ‘What is in actual fact a life sentence, monstrous in its cruelty, for words he spoke against the war.’ Source: Spektr Journalists and human rights defenders have…

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Read more about the article Vladimir Kara-Murza: ‘This is not the 1970s. This is the 1930s.’

Vladimir Kara-Murza: ‘This is not the 1970s. This is the 1930s.’

10 April 2023 Vladimir Kara-Murza, opposition politician and political prisoner: final address to the court Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета. Европа] Citizen Judges! I was sure that after…

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Read more about the article Lev Shlosberg: He Chose Freedom – a word of thanks to Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev on the day of his birth

Lev Shlosberg: He Chose Freedom – a word of thanks to Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev on the day of his birth

2 March 2023 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Novaya gazeta Mikhail Gorbachev, the first president of the USSR, was born on 2 March. This particular date has become a major event…

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Read more about the article Grigory Yavlinsky: ‘Stop it! – There is only one scenario for avoiding a vast number of new victims’

Grigory Yavlinsky: ‘Stop it! – There is only one scenario for avoiding a vast number of new victims’

Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 4 February 2023 by Grigory Yavlinsky, politician Source: Free Space When it was perfectly obvious that Russia’s large-scale military actions were…

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Read more about the article Boris Vishnevsky: The president has signed a law that effectively abolishes the constitutional right to freedom of assembly

Boris Vishnevsky: The president has signed a law that effectively abolishes the constitutional right to freedom of assembly

6 December 2022 by Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Свободное…

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Read more about the article Lev Shlosberg on the sentencing of Ivan Safronov
Ivan Safronov stands in a defendant's cage prior to a hearing at the Lefortovsky district court in Moscow, 7 July 2020. Photo: Moscow News Agency PAP/EPA.

Lev Shlosberg on the sentencing of Ivan Safronov

7 December 2022 by Lev Shlosberg Source: Facebook Ivan Safronov stands in a defendant's cage prior to a hearing at the Lefortovsky district court in Moscow, 7 July 2020. Photo:…

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Read more about the article “People are running away from you, Mr. President. Have you really not noticed?” Ilya Yashin’s final word in court.

“People are running away from you, Mr. President. Have you really not noticed?” Ilya Yashin’s final word in court.

Ilya Yashin By David Krikheli (Wikipedia) 5 December 2022 Ilya Yashin's final word in court at his trial for 'discrediting the Russian military.' Prosecutors have asked for him to be…

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