Weekly Update week-ending 15 October 2021

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Our publications from the past week

Rights in Russia week-ending 15 October 2021

“Опять двадцать пять!” Bill Bowring asks Sergei Krivenko 25 questions

Podcast No. 88. Simon & Sergei – with Valentina Melnikova

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 224: Without right of correspondence

Statement by Public Verdict Foundation on torture in the prison system: First and foremost – consider the victims

Pavel Chikov on torture in the prison system: “It’s centralised management. These are not just some kind of excesses by those on the ground”

Galina Arapova: “I’ll include the ‘foreign agent’ label. Let them choke on it”

Aleksei Simonov: ‘What they’ve given Muratov is a lifebelt. Maybe he doesn’t need it, but this is high recognition of his worth.’

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Return of the “Commander-in-Shit” and the “Rat Army”

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Ilya Pershin, participant in a St. Petersburg rally in support of Aleksei Navalny, is a political prisoner

Jens Siegert: The raid on Memorial was planned and carried out by state agencies and possibly coordinated by the Kremlin

Jens Siegert: In Russia, Europe is not merely a geographical term

Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 15 October 2021]