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09/02/2018
Published by Legal Dialogue at 09/02/2018
How the government uses the law to repress Hungary's civic spirit. Joint statement of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Hungarian Civil Liberties Union.
05/02/2018
Published by Damir Gainutdinov at 05/02/2018
A case initiated by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) against Telegram messenger last summer was the Russian authorities’ first demonstrative attack on digital […]
01/02/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 01/02/2018
On 4 January 2018, two men, both Russian nationals, were legally married in Copenhagen, Denmark. On 25 January 2018, after returning to Moscow, they […]
29/01/2018
Published by Sergey Shapkhaev at 29/01/2018
External threats and their perceptions tend to reflect differences between a society’s various segments and groups—which, in turn, stem from problems on local, regional […]
17/01/2018
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 17/01/2018
Ahead of “weekend protests” that customarily take place in Moscow, OVD-Info sends out an email to subscribers with information, including useful recommendations and links […]
19/12/2017
Published by Olga Gulina at 19/12/2017
Part 2. Mechanisms for Managing Humanitarian Migration to European Continent In 2014 to 2016, EU Member States faced an influx of humanitarian migration which […]
14/12/2017
Published by Olga Gulina at 14/12/2017
The current EU legislation on migration and asylum has been set out and interpreted in a number of legal documents. The existence of multiple […]
13/12/2017
Published by Karina Levina at 13/12/2017
On September 15 2017, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) released “The Responsibility of States: Protection of Human Rights Defenders […]
14/11/2017
Published by Natalia Smolentceva at 14/11/2017
Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (Society for Civil Rights) is one of the first European NGOs to use strategic litigation in the area of human and […]
09/11/2017
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 09/11/2017
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (MoJ) has published a new draft of the Concept for the Regulation of the Professional Legal […]
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 sound […]