Dmitry Ivanov: Final Statement in Court
1 March 2023 This translation of Dmitry Ivanov's final statement at his trial is taken from the Telegram channel Prison_MSU and is reproduced here by kind permission. Source: Prison_MSU I…
Vyacheslav Bakhmin: I don’t want to give them my country
23 February 2023 an interview with Vyacheslav Bakhmin, dissident, human rights activist, chair of the Sakharov Centre, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Рефорум] Human…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Of Trials and Puppet Shows, or There Is No Crime Without Punishment
28 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Ukrainian human rights organisation Centre for Civil Liberties, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year,…
Ilya Shablinsky: Worse than the Black Colonels and Saddam Hussein. The criminal law of the Russian regime
20 February 2023 by Ilya Shablinsky, doctor of legal sciences, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Спектр] There is cheering news for all Russian speakers:…
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Who Are the Putinalias Intended For?
25 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Everyone understood long ago that the rallies in support of the regime are nothing but government-ordered and propagandistic in nature. These actions’…
Aleksandr Podrabinek on objectors and deserters: ‘No One Wanted to Go to War’
22 February 2023 by Aleksandr Podrabinek: Source: Radio Svoboda War repeals many laws, but it does not repeal the desire to live. Some accept war as a challenge and rush…
Witnesses Against War #2: Web-designer, currently outside Russia
22 May 2022 Witness #2: a web-designer, currently outside Russia Source: Witnesses Against War Witnesses Against War is an anonymous international group of journalists, writers, historians and translators, who live in…
Elena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov in 1979. Photo: HRW
Boris Altshuler: On the centenary of Yelena Georgievna Bonner’s birth
15 February 2023 by Boris Altshuler, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group “Anyone who does not regret the breakup of the USSR has no heart, and anyone who thinks we…
Leonid Nikitinsky: According to Doctor of Law Bastrykin, 6-7 years’ imprisonment for a post on social networks is just the thing.
20 February 2023 All Quiet on the Western Front: Bastrykin's interview on the eve of the presidential address tackles purely propaganda issues, not legal ones by Leonid Nikitinsky Source: Novaya…
Ilya Shablinsky: On the important events of the past week
13 February 2022 by Ilya Shablinsky, doctor of legal sciences, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Спектр] The European Union embargo on supplies of oil…