Weekly Update

Weekly Update [week-ending 2 September 2022]
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Our publications from over the summer

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 269: When They Came for the ‘Dead’
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 268: ‘Please help me’
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 267: ‘He’s not Dimon to You,’ or five years later.
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 266: Cancel the decision, but keep on blocking
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 265: An expert with no competence
On the death of Mikhail Gorbachev – Statement by the initiators of the Andrei Sakharov Movement for Peace, Progress and Human Rights
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Gorbachev as a Litmus Test for Russian Liberalism
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Seven of Putin’s Friends. On the Dictatorship’s Abettors
Aleksandr Podrabinek: An Attempt to Save Russia from Ruin and Preserve It
Aleksandr Podrabinek: A bitter pill in a sweet wrapper. The EU will achieve nothing by cancelling visas for Russians
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Subtleties of Propaganda
Kiev and Taipei. Aleksandr Podrabinek on the dangers of tolerating authoritarianism
Viktor Suvorov: Stalin and his Monuments
Memorial Human Rights Centre [Центр защиты прав человека «Мемориал»] elects two co-chairs of its governing body

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Ilya Yashin is a political prisoner 
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Three Crimean Muslims convicted of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir are political prisoners
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Oleg Belousov, a St. Petersburg resident jailed for anti-war remarks on social media, is a political prisoner
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Dmitry Ivanov, author of the ‘MGU Protest’ Telegram channel, is a political prisoner
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: A photographer who worked for Navalny’s headquarters in Arkhangelsk, remanded in custody on charges of rehabilitating Nazism,  is a political prisoner
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Dmitry Talantov, a lawyer remanded in custody on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army, is a political prisoner 
‘Political Prisoners: Memorial’: Egor Kazanets, a Ukrainian citizen who wrote ‘Glory to Ukraine!’ on a wall in St. Petersburg, is a political prisoner
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Viktoria Petrova, a resident of St. Petersburg remanded in custody for anti-war posts on the VK social media site, is a political prisoner
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Vladislav Nikitenko, a lawyer from Blagoveshchensk who filed complaints against Putin for unleashing war against Ukraine, is a political prisoner
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Three opponents of the war against Ukraine accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army are political prisoners
‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Mikhail Afanasiev, a journalist from Khakassia, is a political prisoner
Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Free: Coming of Age at the End of History’ by Lea Ypi
Sarah Hurst reviews ‘Between Two Fires’ by Joshua Yaffa
Fergus Wright: Connecting Anti-War Groups in the West, Belarus, and Russia and What it Means for the War in Ukraine 
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 26 August 2022]
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 19 August 2022]
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 12 August 2022]
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 5 August 2022]

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