Weekly Update week-ending 17 September 2021

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Our publications from the past week.

Rights in Russia week-ending 17 September 2021

“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Olga Vekovshinina 25 questions

Podcast No. 85. Simon & Sergei – with Viktor Davydov

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 220: Against the ‘foreign agent’ law

Maria Alekhina: I have been sentenced to one year’s “restriction of freedom.” Here is my final address to the court at my trial…

Statement by Human Rights Defenders: ‘Throw the old junk out of the State Duma!’

New Golos report on election campaigning and the authorities’ mobilisation of the voters

“These protests are extremely important and necessary.” Vyacheslav Bakhmin on the journalists’ protests against the ‘foreign agent’ law.

Court hears there is no evidence of foreign money in the case of a ‘foreign agent’ media outlet

Stanislav Dmitrievsky: ‘Russian wooden architecture is as unique a phenomenon as the Russian avant-garde or the Russian ballet.’

Socialochka.лайв presents a video about human rights defender Igor Kalyapin

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow’ by Karl Schlögel [translated from the German by Jessica Spengler]

Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 17 September 2021]