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Russian Federation
07/11/2017
Published by Dmitry Shevchenko at 07/11/2017
In July 2017, Krakow hosted the 41st session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. This year, the high-profile event was characterised, on one hand, […]
06/11/2017
Published by Valentin Gefter at 06/11/2017
Intentional excessive suffering which an individual experiences against their will and cannot independently stop… (a definition of ‘torture’) The epigraph above does not […]
18/09/2017
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 18/09/2017
After winning a labour dispute with Aeroflot, flight attendant Evgeniya Magurina and her lawyer Ksenia Mikhailichenko of the Center for Social and Labor Rights […]
20/07/2017
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 20/07/2017
*This article is an updated version of the original piece published here on 20 July. A week later, the events unfolded in an unexpected […]
07/07/2017
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 07/07/2017
Resident of St. Petersburg on Her Crusade against a Homophobic Entrepreneur Russian businessman German Sterligov is known for his ultra-Orthodox Christian views, among other […]
29/06/2017
Published by Matvey Trutnev at 29/06/2017
A local court in Perm, Russia found Vladimir Luzgin guilty of “publicly denying the facts established by the International Military Tribunal for trial and […]
02/05/2017
Published by Valentin Gefter at 02/05/2017
While mindful of the challenges related to migration and asylum in Europe, one should not forget about yet another category of people who can […]
02/05/2017
Published by Alisa Ivanitskaya at 02/05/2017
The Russian Ministry of Justice has listed three groups associated with democracy activist Mikhail Khodorkovsky in its register of “undesirable organisations”1http://minjust.ru/ru/activity/nko/unwanted: the UK-based Open […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]