Authorities in Russia continue their repression to silence opposition within the country. More than 6,800 protesters have been detained for participating in anti-war rallies, including many journalist...
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 ...
Can you turn being labelled a “foreign agent” into something positive? Russian human rights defenders and journalists have joined together, making the lemons handed by the government into lemonade. Re...
In an unprecedented and appalling move, the Russian authorities forced the closure of Memorial, a leading human rights watchdog. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled to shut down International Memorial ...
In today’s unprecedented decision, the Russian Supreme Court has shut down the country’s most prominent human rights organisation – International Memorial Society. The organisation has been on trial s...
Memorial, a cornerstone of Russian civil society, is under threat of liquidation by the Russian authorities on baseless charges. Memorial’s two entities – Memorial Human Rights Centre and Intern...
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