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28/04/2017
Published by Inga Pylypchuk at 28/04/2017
Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula has faced a difficult situation. Russian authorities have pursued a repressive policy against the locals: […]
26/04/2017
Published by Anastasia Kirilenko at 26/04/2017
On 6 September 2016, a branch of Human Constanta, a Belarus-based human rights group, was opened in Brest to help refugees, mostly from Chechnya, […]
26/04/2017
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 26/04/2017
Igor Kochetkov, Russian LGBT-activist and chairman of the LGBT-Network, talks about the mass persecution of gay people in Chechnya, their possible evacuation from the […]
25/04/2017
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 25/04/2017
The Fernando Pombo Foundation (Spain) in collaboration with the nation’s universities has launched an innovative multi-purpose project Multiplícate that seeks to involve law students […]
23/04/2017
Published by Tetiana Goncharuk at 23/04/2017
The activities of two criminal groups engaged in human trafficking were halted by the efforts of victims’ parents with the help of human and […]
19/04/2017
Published by Anastasia Chukovskaya at 19/04/2017
The status of non-governmental organisations and human rights watchdogs in Hungary will worsen in the near future. In mid-May 2017 the government will vote […]
19/04/2017
Published by Alisa Ivanitskaya at 19/04/2017
Police arrested hundreds of people after anti-corruption protests swept across Russia on 26 March 2017. In Vladivostok alone 26 people were taken into custody […]
12/04/2017
Published by Alexey Kozlov at 12/04/2017
Criminalisation of the protest continues in Russia: the legislation is moving towards the creation of lists of the undesirable and the unreliable, which, probably, […]
07/04/2017
Published by Daria Litvinova at 07/04/2017
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a law on March 28 restricting video, audio and online broadcasts of trials in the media – from now […]
21/02/2017
Published by Daria Litvinova at 21/02/2017
Criminal conviction and jail time for violating protest regulations can apply only to protesters who pose real threat to other people’s lives or property, […]
31/01/2017
Published by Katharina Miller at 31/01/2017
I have an entrepreneurial friend in Spain who owns a successful business, making children’s clothes and selling them online. She has hired two seamstresses […]
31/01/2017
Published by Inga Pylypchuk at 31/01/2017
Deputy Head of Greenpeace’s Political Unit (Berlin) talks about energy policy priorities for 2017, the economic benefits of alternative energy sources, and what to […]