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23/11/2020
Фото: Семейный архив Евгении Шашевой
Published by Julia Saberova at 23/11/2020

Echoes of Stalin’s “Great Terror.” How the descendants of repression continue to fight for their rights

Massive political repression in the USSR peaked in the late 1930s, but the descendants of the repressed are still fighting to restore the honest name of their ancestors and are trying to return home from their places of exile, to where their families were expelled decades ago.
09/11/2020
Published by Viktoria Berezyuk at 09/11/2020

National Sovereignty or International Law? The Russian Constitution Has the Last Word

On January 2020, President Putin called for amending the Russian Constitution to establish its precedence over supranational judicial bodies, meaning, primarily, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Interestingly, this was not a new idea: Russian legal experts who for many years have been suggesting such an amendment to the Constitution had referred to German precedent.
09/10/2020
Published by Anna Wójcik at 09/10/2020

Memory Laws in Russia and Other Restrictions on Freedom of Expression

Under the European Convention on Human Rights, states must guarantee free and open debates about the past. Yet, with the rise of memory laws, the right to free expression has been endangered.
16/09/2020
Published by Mateusz Bajek at 16/09/2020

Is the Impossible Possible? International Monitoring of Regional and Local Elections in the Russian Federation

In August 2019, several international organisations received a request to send observers to monitor elections in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But the attempt to involve international observers in these elections ended in failure: international observation of the nationwide single voting day on 8 September, 2019, was not implemented.
28/08/2020
Published by Theresa Bender-Säbelkampf at 28/08/2020

The Case of the Khachaturyan Sisters: A Turning Point in Russian Domestic Violence Law?

Russia still has no domestic violence legislation. Will the case of the Khachaturian sisters, three girls who have been subjected to abuse by their father for many years, become a turning point in the adoption of such a law?
09/08/2020
Published by Sofia Ciuffoletti at 09/08/2020

Out of the Cage, Into the Net: Understanding Access to the Internet in Prison as a Human Right

What is the internet? A means or an end? How do we define the right to access the internet? Is it an autonomous human right, or does it augment other rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights?
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Weekly legal news from the EU and Russia
  • Greece сommits to end “protective” child detention
    24/11/2020
    In a huge victory for children’s rights, the Greek government is ending the long-standing practice of detaining unaccompanied migrant children in jail cells.

    Source: HRW

  • State Duma lawmakers propose blocking websites accused of censoring Russian news media
    24/11/2020
    A group of lawmakers from the Russian State Duma have proposed giving Russia’s state censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, the right to block access to websites that “discriminate against” or censor information coming from the Russian news media.

    Source: Meduza

  • Croatia to finally give welfare benefits to civilian war victims
    24/11/2020
    Twenty-five years after the war in Croatia ended, a law that will set out the rights of civilian victims of the conflict has finally been drafted, and the Croatian government expects it to be passed by parliament by the end of the year.

    Source: Balkan Insight

  • Demonstrators in Paris protest new French law criminalising police images
    24/11/2020
    Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Paris to protest a proposed new law that would criminalise the dissemination of images of police officers.

    Source: Euronews

  • German Infection law: a new legal status for culture
    24/11/2020
    Under Germany's Infection Protection Law, culture is no longer classified as entertainment and cancelling arts events in the pandemic might become difficult.

    Source: DW

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