Igor Kalyapin: Putin didn’t use to avoid questions

12 December 2022 An interview with Igor Kalyapin, human rights defender and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize, by Andrei Salunov, for Free Space Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…

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Putin expels Moscow Helsinki Group member Nikolai Svanidze from Human Rights Council

17 November 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Putin has issued a decree removing several individuals from the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, including Moscow Helsinki Group member…

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Members of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society speak out against the war against Ukraine [Activatica]

6 March 2022 Source: Activatica Members of the Commission on Political Rights of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society [Human Rights Council] have issued a collective appeal.…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: “Basic rights should not be subject to additional restrictions”

6 March 2022 by Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya gazeta correspondent On the statement by members of the Human Rights Council Source: Novaya gazeta On 6 March 2022, the Commission on Political…

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Nikolai Svanidze: Statement by the Commission on Political Rights of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society

6 March 2022 by Nikolai Svanidze Source: Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Council Statement by the Commission on Political Rights of the Presidential Council on Human Rights…

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