1.0Rights in Russiahttps://www.rightsinrussia.orgRights in Russiahttps://www.rightsinrussia.org/author/simonrightsinrussia-org/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ponomarev-29/">Lev Ponomarev: Russia should be ashamed to go down the path of totalitarianism again. Even if it’s totalitarianism-light.</a></blockquote> <script type='text/javascript'> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,n=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},!c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,a,i,s=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=0;o<n.length;o++)n[o].style.display="none";for(o=0;o<s.length;o++)if(r=s[o],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(i=parseInt(t.value,10)))i=1e3;else if(~~i<200)i=200;r.height=i}if("link"===t.message)if(a=d.createElement("a"),i=d.createElement("a"),a.href=r.getAttribute("src"),i.href=t.value,i.host===a.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!n){n=!0;for(var e,t,r=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),s=0;s<i.length;s++){if(!(e=i[s]).getAttribute("data-secret"))t=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t);if(r||a)(t=e.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),e.parentNode.replaceChild(t,e)}}}}(window,document); //--><!]]> </script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ponomarev-29/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“Lev Ponomarev: Russia should be ashamed to go down the path of totalitarianism again. Even if it’s totalitarianism-light.” — Rights in Russia" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>http://www.rightsinrussia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ponomarev-lev-71-5-180-kommersant_45.jpg180180In Russia in the 2010s, in response to the strengthening of state repression, human rights organisations got a kind of “second wind”. This edition of SIA-PRESS talks with Lev Ponomarev, one of the leading figures of this movement, and the chair of the national NGO For Human Rights (the official structure of this was group closed down as a “foreign agent”, so that now it exists without legal form).