Weekly Update week-ending 1 January 2021

Our publications from the past week.

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Podcast No. 53. Simon & Sergei – with Sergei Belyaev

Team 29: Year in review

‘The Federal Security Service should be eliminated in its present form.’ Statement by human rights activists on Day of the Chekist, 20 December

Lev Ponomarev on being added to the list of media ‘foreign agents’: ‘We’re going to defend ourselves collectively.’

Leonid Nikitinsky: How the president reacts, or doesn’t, to human rights defenders.

Mara Polyakova: Speech on 10th December 2020 at the meeting of the Human Rights Council with Vladimir Putin

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Two Muslims from Chelyabinsk region accused of being participants in the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir are political prisoners

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Grey Bees,’ a novel by Andrei Kurkov

Marjorie Farquharson: An Experiment in Moscow (May, 1992)

Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia