Weekly Update week-ending 22 October 2021

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Our publications from the past week

Rights in Russia week-ending 22 October 2021

Podcast No. 89. Simon & Sergei – with Marina Pisklakova-Parker

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

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 225: The Russian State in Defence of its Security Services

Aleksandr Podrabinek: Protesting on our knees. What should dissidents do?

In defence of Memorial. Statement by PEN-Moscow and the Free Speech Association

Georgy Satarov on the attack on Memorial: “A future which is beginning before our very eyes […] What we see here is fascism.”

Vera Vasilieva: On systemic torture and the situation in Russia’s penal colonies

Lev Ponomarev: I invite Volodin to visit Saratov TB Prison Hospital No. 1 with a lawyer. And not only that.

Andrei Babushkin: Are the Minister of Justice and human rights activists in agreement?

Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia [week-ending 22 October 2021]