Weekly Update week-ending 18 March 2022

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Our publications from the past week

Podcast No. 103. Simon & Sergei – with Vyacheslav Shilov

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 246: They’re jailing everyone – the rest have rallied together.

Nadezhda Sukhorukova: ‘I want everyone to know that civilians are still being killed.’ #Mariupol

Lev Shlosberg: ‘Never before in our life have there been such accursed days.’

Aleksandr Podrabinek: War is one thing … or How Ukraine itself is financing the Russian invasion

Aleksandr Podrabinek: On lessons of the ‘Russian World’ – and the law of violence

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Moscow against the backdrop of war. Observations from someone living in the capital

Philip Leach: A Time of Reckoning? Russia and the Council of Europe

Grigory Vaypan: Leaving the Council of Europe: What will come next?

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Statement on Russia and the Council of Europe

Yan Rachinsky: Marina Ovsyannikova’s action is to her credit

Ivan Pavlov: Remember that expressing one’s opinion does not constitute high treason. But there are enough other repressive laws out there

Liya Akhedzhakova: Never before have we been asked to take ‘loyalty tests’, tests of human decency and commitment to Russia’s great culture

Yury Shevchuk: ‘I am perfectly ready to give back my awards. But I am not prepared to give up my civic stance.’

Grigory Melkonyants: On a bill on elections in wartime

Viktor Kogan-Yasny: The West and the responsibility of all Russians for Russia’s sins

Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Public opinion in a dictatorship: Crimea, the Constitution, etc.

Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 18 March 2022]