Weekly Update

Weekly Update week-ending 30 July 2021
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Our publications from the past week

Rights in Russia week-ending 30 July 2021
Rights in Russia interview – with Peter Reddaway, professor emeritus of political science and international affairs at George Washington University

“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Sergei Trutnev 25 questions
Podcast No. 83. Simon & Sergei – with Alena Vershinina
Podcast No. 84. Simon & Sergei – with Grigory Vaipan.
OVD-Weekly Bulletin No. 213: When they came for the journalists and National Bolsheviks
Congress of the Intelligentsia: “30 years ago, freedom and democracy were defended”
“Freedom of speech – it’s a matter of self-respect.” Galina Arapova on why she has been defending the rights of journalists in Russia for a quarter of a century
Grigory Melkonyants: The Central Election Commission cancels live video broadcasts from polling stations
Igor Yakovenko: ‘Scorched earth’ tactics
“Before the First Star.” Leonid Nikitinsky on the designation of the Institute for Law & Public Policy as a ‘foreign agent’
Moscow PEN Centre and the Free Speech Association: Statement on the attack on free speech and the erosion of the foundations of the journalistic profession
Kirill Koroteev on the legalisation of same-sex unions after the ECtHR’s decision
Lev Ponomarev on political prisoners in Crimea
Vera Vasilieva on those imprisoned: ‘Under the hammer of repression’
Zoya Svetova: “There is a goal to ‘clean up the media’, and they are cleaning it up”
Sergei Lukashevsky on Vladimir Putin’s controversial article
Yury Samodurov: This is not about voting, it’s about Yavlinsky
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia

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