Russia

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...

In the days leading up to the fifth LGBTQI+ Family conference in Moscow, several LGBTI activists were attacked and threatened. Because of the repeated assaults, following a similar trend as previous y...

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...

“Love has no borders” was this year’s slogan at the Barents Pride – a pride festival celebrated in Kirkenes, Norway. Situated in the northern area of the country, the town borders to Russia. The sloga...

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...

This year, the Russian Pride Festival Queerfest celebrated its 10th anniversary. For the third year in a row, the event could proceed without any major pressure from the authorities. “It is evident th...

The next hearings in the case of prominent Chechen human rights defender Oyub Titiev will be held behind closed doors, the Shali district court has ordered. The formal reason behind denying the public...

During the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Russia, the Swedish Football Association has together with Civil Rights Defenders met with Russian human rights defenders. Civil Rights Defenders and the Swedish F...