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Russian Federation
02/06/2018
Published by Lev Levinson at 02/06/2018
One year after the ban on Jehowa’s Witnesses in Russia individual members are facing criminal prosecutions, with some of them detained
14/05/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 14/05/2018
The ECHR’s judgment in favor of the four applicants who had to stay in the airport’s transit zone for five to twenty-three months to be reviewed.
19/04/2018
Published by Yuliia Schastlivtseva at 19/04/2018
The Russian State Duma aims at to block websites containing false and defamatory information. Human rights defenders warn that its initiative could become an instrument of censorship.
03/04/2018
Published by Dmitry Shabelnikov at 03/04/2018
Seventy years after Raoul Wallenberg's disappearance in the Lubyanka prison, his family is suing the FSB for access to prison archives.
15/02/2018
Published by Yuliia Ostrovskaya at 15/02/2018
"Foreign agents" law now enforced against Russian trade unions.
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 […]
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 […]