Russia

Civil Rights Defenders, with the support from ARTICLE 19 and and 8 other human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, calls on Russian President Vladimir Putin, not to sign the so-called “S...

It has been one year since Oyub Titiev, head of the Chechen office of Russian human rights group Memorial – was arrested and deprived of liberty. Civil Rights Defenders emphasises the arbitrariness of...

Almost five months ago, the Shali distric court in the Russian constituent republic of Chechnya opened the trial in the case of human rights defender Oyub Titiev. When it comes to cases of politically...

Russian human rights defender and co-founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Ludmilla Alexseyeva, has passed away at the age of 91. For more than seven decades, she has been a symbol of justice within t...

Civil Rights Defenders and RFSL welcome the invocation of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to finally address impunity for serious human rights violations and abuses in Chechnya. The decision to invoke the O...

Voices from Queerfest: Close-up with Bella Rapoport, journalist and Queerfest visitor. “The most important thing about Queerfest is that I can be amongst the people that I feel comfortable with. I kno...

Voices from Queerfest: Close-up with Kris Jashina, visitor at the 2018 Queerfest. “Queerfest for me is a space where the understanding of identity and culture is in focus. Importantly, it is a place w...

Voices from Queerfest: Close-up with Julia Gataulina, former volunteer and now one of the organisers of Queerfest. “A new chapter in my life started in September 2015 when I moved to St. Petersburg, R...

On 27 June 2018, Article 19, on behalf of Civil Rights Defenders and 50 other organisations, delivered an oral statement to the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, highlighting co...

In less than a month, millions of people will turn their eyes upon Russia as the 2018 Football World Cup kicks off. Ahead of the tournament, Civil Rights Defenders and 13 other international and Russi...