Weekly Update

Weekly Update week-ending 12 February 2021
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Our publications from the past week

Podcast No. 58: Simon & Sergei – with Andrei Suslov
“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Olga Sadovskaya 25 questions
Rights in Russia week-ending 12 February 2021
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 189: Criminal cases, arrests and abductions
Team 29: The next word they’ll ban will be ‘torch’
Statement by members of the Presidential Human Rights Council on the events of 23 and 31 January
Public appeal: Stop the violence immediately and abide by the law!
Statement by Soviet-era Political Prisoners: “We are outraged by this return to the worst times of state terror in our country. We declare our solidarity with today’s political prisoners and express our sympathy and support.”
Boris Akunin: The authorities should be more grown up than the people
Dmitry Bykov: 85 million Russians have stopped believing the authorities
Leonid Nikitinsky: The Human Rights Council is still divided, and that is a good thing
Sergei Pashin: ‘It may be easier to prove a violation of sanitary-epidemiological regulations.’ On the Navalny case
Lev Ponomarev: Have they begun jailing the torturers? On the riots at Angarsk Penal Colony No. 15.
Lev Ponomarev on a tale of how doing business with the FSB turned sour: Crimea is ours and the generators are ours.
Vyacheslav Bakhmin: What is interesting about the experience of Soviet dissidents?
Memorial Human Rights Centre: Ten opposition figures charged with violating Covid-19 restrictions are political prisoners
Marjorie Farquharson: Blaze and Symmetry (2008)
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia

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