Weekly Update week-ending 3 July 2020

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Rights in Russia week-ending 3 July 2020

Podcast Simon & Sergei: with Tatyana Voltskaya, journalist and poet

Svetlana Prokopyeva’s final statement in court: “State power in the hands of cruel people is a major threat to security”

Translated by Elizabeth Teague

Lev Shlosberg: Testimony in the trial of Svetlana Prokopyeva

Translated by Elizabeth Teague

The Sheriff. Igor Kalyapin, fighter for social justice

Translated by Verity Hemp, Graham Jones, Joanne Reynolds, Nicky Brown, John Tokolish, Matthew Quigley and Simon Cosgrove

Vera Vasilieva on the case of Aleksei Pichugin: The last prisoner

Translated by Mercedes Malcomson, Mark Nuckols and Nina dePalma

Lev Ponomarev: Do not worry: they will both meet you and guide you. As for where to…

Translated by Anna Bowles

Lev Ponomarev: “The war to nullify the youth — the future of the country — continues”

Translated by Nina dePalma

Martin Dewhirst reviews Luke Harding’s new book, ‘Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West’

Nadezhda Azhgikhina reviews ‘Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and friends: Life was typical, tragic, and beautiful’

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 160: The constitution, a broken arm and single-person pickets

Translated by Judith Fagelson

Team 29: The vote on the amendments (how we got through it)

Translated by Simon Cosgrove