Weekly Update

Weekly Update week-ending 15 January 2021
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Podcast No. 55. Simon & Sergei – with Mikhail Benyash, human rights lawyer from Sochi
Rights in Russia week-ending 15 January 2021
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 185: Navalny’s coming back a wanted man
Team 29: Enforced loyalty and corporate conspiracies
More than 100 public figures sign open letter seeking to solve the problems faced by victims of Soviet repression
Lev Ponomarev on the prosecution of Azat Miftakhov: Another “Major Criminal Case”
Lev Ponomarev: A Public Witness to Prison Torture
Genri Reznik: Only a formally independent authority — an investigating judge — can effectively monitor the observance of human rights during the course of an investigation
Dmitry Bykov on why the National Guard recently purchased special equipment costing 2bn roubles
Vera Vasilieva: Letters from behind bars. On the solidarity of political prisoners
Rupression: An interview with Ilya Shakursky, convicted in the Network case – “Now and then the flame dies down, but solidarity is a stream of sparks”
A statement by the Rupression collective about ceasing financial support for two of the “network” case prisoners
19 January Committee: To remember is to fight!
Memorial Human Rights Centre: Detention of Navalny a politically motivated unlawful act of retribution
Memorial Human Rights Centre: Kazan resident Marsel Gimaliev, charged with involvement in the banned organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, is a political prisoner
Lionel Blackman reviews ‘Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes’ edited by Karrie J. Koesel, Valerie J. Bunce, and Jessica Chen
Justice Initiative director Vanessa Kogan on her work in Russia (interview with Kommersant)
Marjorie Farquharson: Kronid Lyubarsky (1935-1996). An obituary (1996)
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia

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