Weekly Update week-ending 21 May 2021

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Rights in Russia week-ending 21 May 2021

“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Valentina Cherevatenko 25 questions

Podcast No. 73. Simon & Sergei – with Sergei Davidis

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 203: New sentences, old health problems.

Team 29: 🌲 Prosecutors are felling the forest.

Sergei Lukashevsky on the 100th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s birth: How can Sakharov’s legacy be applied to our times?

Lev Ponomarev: Putin and Sakharov

Moscow City Hall stops Andrei Sakharov 100th anniversary exhibition in Moscow from going ahead [Kommersant]

Sergei Davidis: “Awareness that the authorities are by their nature against the people is growing”

Lev Ponomarev: “Which Russia would you prefer? The Russia of Patrushev, or the Russia of Misik?”

“The peaceful character of public events must, finally, become the norm.” Appeal by constitutional experts to the federal human rights Ombudsman

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Four residents of Crimea, charged with involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, are political prisoners

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Rais Gimadiev, a resident of Tatarstan sentenced to 16 years in prison on terrorism charges, is a political prisoner

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Akhmed Pogorov, a protest leader in Ingushetia, is a political prisoner

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