For human rights, 2021 ‘worst year in history of post-Soviet Russia,’ Davidis says
Sergey Davidis, a specialist on political prisoners at the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, says that 2021…
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Shuttering Memorial – part of Kremlin’s preparation for expanded war against Ukraine, Chubais says
The Kremlin almost certainly decided to move against Memorial now lest that human rights group serve as a…
“An attempt to ban memory.” Why Russia wants to shut down its top human rights NGO Memorial
Russia has moved one step closer to shut down Memorial, Russia’s most famous human rights organization, accusing it…
“Agents,” “undesirable,” “extremists” — how modern Russia combats dissent
If you open today any publication of Meduza, a well-known independent online media outlet, you can see the…
Consequences of restoring Russia’s voting rights in PACE
What the confirmation of Russia’s voting right means Yelyzaveta Yasko, head of the Ukrainian Delegation to PACE, names…
Putin restores the GULAG by legalizing slave labor of convicts
Given all the changes Vladimir Putin is making in these days in the Russian constitutional order, ones that…
Putin’s proposed amendments to Russian Constitution reject primacy of international law
The most important change in the Russian Constitution that Vladimir Putin has called for has almost been lost…
What’s Putin up to and who’s the next PM of Russia? Experts comment on resignation of Russian government
What happened: On January 15, 2020, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly and proposed…
‘Lavrov confirms Russian forces intervened in Ukraine’ and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russia’s penal reforms point to return of ‘renewed’ GULAG, Novaya Gazeta says
Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system…
‘Putin’s GULAG more horrible than Stalin’s,’ researchers say
Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by the case of Rizvan Ibragimov who…
Concentration camps for gays? Fake news, claims Russian human rights official
Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian human rights ombudsman, says that she has determined that Moscow media reports about the…
Moscow has put the Russian Internet ‘under martial law,’ Agora says
Moscow’s crackdown on the Russian section of the Internet over the last year has been so seeping and…
Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko celebrates birthday in Putin’s prison
What happens if your son, father, or spouse is arrested by the state that is waging a war…
West’s failure to confront Putin on Olympics convinced him he could invade Ukraine without penalty, Titov says
Many trace the origins of Vladimir Putin’s conviction that the West will ultimately come to accept whatever he…
The lawyer of Russian human rights activists asks for shelter in America
Well-known Russian lawyer Andrey Stolbunov, who accused Russian regional officials of corruption and defended investigative journalist Mikhail Beketov,…