Sergei Davidis: Ten years on from Bolotnaya
7 May 2022 By Sergei Davidis Source: Facebook Lots of people go back over the past, trying to reach a view on one thing or another with the benefit of…
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 245: Pacifism is not a crime
13 March 2022 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: When will the sleeper wake up?
9 March 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV “When will Russian society finally wake from its slumber and overthrow Putin’s authoritarian regime?” polite people from thriving Western countries ask me…
Ilya Shablinsky: Solitary picketing is one of the simplest and most innocuous rights, but even this is being destroyed
Ilya Shablinsky. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / Novaya Gazeta 8 October 2020 Ilya Shablinsky, doctor of law and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: ОВД-Инфо]…
Lev Ponomarev: “The war to nullify the youth — the future of the country — continues”
A war for nullification (22.06.2020) 22 June 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chair of the national NGO For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…
Lev Ponomarev: Do not worry: they will both meet you and guide you. As for where to…
20 June 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chairof the national NGO For Human Rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Echo of Moscow] Quarantine restrictions in…
Podcast Simon & Sergei: Rights in Russia week-ending 3 April 2020 with Lev Ponomarev
This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Lev Ponomarev (pictured left), long-time head of For Human Rights, one of Russia's leading human rights NGOs. This podcast is in the Russian…