Today, Russia’s parliament passed a law that criminalises distributing so called “false information” about the war in Ukraine. Independent media outlets have also been shuttered. Russian citizens are ...
At 5AM Kyiv time today, Putin launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine. On 21 February 2022, Russia overrode the Minsk agreement by illegally recognising the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk P...
A further armed conflict in Ukraine would be devastating for human rights in both countries. Since Russia illegally occupied Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the situation for human rights, and ci...
During the last weekend in January, queer art festival OpenArt took place for the fourth time in Moscow. Despite several challenges, the festival was a success, bringing together 490 people, which is ...
On the evening of 20 January, a group of men who introduced themselves as police officers from Chechnya forcefully entered the apartment of retired federal judge Sayda Iangulbaev and his wife Zarema M...
On 25 December, the Russian state media regulator Roskomnadzor blocked the website of OVD-Info, an independent Russian media and human rights project and the recipient of the Civil Rights Defender of ...
After ten days of events and festivities, QueerFest has come to a close in St. Petersburg. For its 13th consecutive year, the festival continues to be a unique gathering for LGBTI+ individuals both in...
In a coordinated attack on Russian civil society, a large number of organisations, individuals and media outlets have been labelled as ‘foreign agents’ today by Russian authorities. Among the targeted...
The Russian human rights and media project OVD-Info is awarded the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award 2021. OVD-Info is a lifeline for the thousands of people who suffer from political perse...
On 31 August 2021, the European Court of Human Rights issued a long-awaited judgement in the case of Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova who was murdered in July 2009. The Court...
Page 2 of 11
