Weekly Update

Weekly Update week-ending 3 December 2021
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Our publications from the past week

Rights in Russia week-ending 3 December 2021
Podcast No. 94. Simon & Sergei – with Svetlana Astrakhantseva
“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Sergei Belyaev 25 questions
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 231: Extremists, Pastors and ‘Foreign Agents’
Moscow Helsinki Group calls on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to withdraw its lawsuit to shutdown Memorial
Leonid Nikitinsky: Sentencing postponed in the case of Memorial
Aleksandr Podrabinek: A Bad Scenario. What Russians can expect from war with Ukraine
Nikolai Svanidze: International Holocaust Remembrance Day must be reinstated in the school curriculum
Valery Borshchev on the sudden dismissal of the head of Federal Penitentiary Service: “Torture has become systemic.”
Lev Ponomarev: Bastrykin…, Kalashnikov is gone. Memorial* hasn’t been destroyed yet.

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Smolensk activist Sergei Komandirov is a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre: The prosecution of Chelyabinsk anarchists Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova is unlawful and politically motivated
Memorial Human Rights Centre: Kemerovo bloggers and activists Maksim Lavrentiev and Sergei Kamensky are political prisoners
Sarah Hurst reviews : ‘We Need to Talk About Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong’ by Mark Galeotti
Andrey Kazantsev: “As it is, the villains and their crimes are simply forgotten – this should not be so.”
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia

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