Svetlana Astrakhantseva: This is not the end of our story
12 May 2026 by Svetlana Astrakhantseva Source: Facebook Today marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Moscow Helsinki Group. On 12 May 1976, the first signatures appeared on…
Svetlana Astrakhantseva: The state is using legal instruments against us that were intended to help civil society and human rights organizations function, not shut them down
8 February 2023 Svetlana Astrakhantseva, member and acting director of the MHG [Moscow Helsinki Group] Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Spektr] The Russian government has blocked the website of the…
Svetlana Astrakhantseva: Fundamental human rights exist now only in the Constitution, to which law enforcement pays no attention.
20 December 2022 Svetlana Astrakhantseva, Moscow Helsinki Group CEO, in conversation with Svetlana Reiter. Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Meduza] Russia’s Ministry of Justice has initiated liquidation proceedings against the…
Svetlana Astrakhantseva: In Russia, the court is no temple of justice and the public space is no place for discussion
30 August 2022 Svetlana Astrakhantseva, MKhG [Moscow Helsinki Group] member, MKhG acting director Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook Today a Tverskoi court judge, a fairly young man of…
On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev – Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights
Lev Ponomarev Boris Altshuler Svetlana Astrakhantseva Valery Borshchev 1 September 2022 Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights Gorbachev, Sakharov and our…
Svetlana Astrakhantseva: This shameful, inhumane and cynical conviction must surely be quashed
8 July 2022 by Svetlana Astrakhantseva, executive director of Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook] Moscow municipal council member Aleksei Gorinov has been sentenced to seven years…
On the prosecution of Aleksandr Shestun: Alarming sensations of impending darkness
Aleksandr Shestun. Source: Wikipedia Creative Commons 27 April 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Obshchaya Gazeta] On 28 April, at 10:30, Moscow Region’s Domodedovo Court will begin hearing the criminal…
