Russia and its authoritarian friends lag increasingly behind its free enemies, Illarionov says
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those…
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Ukraine in danger of receiving an Ombudsman on a “political leash”
The future of Ukraine’s top human rights authority is under jeopardy as the three candidates to be put…
Soviet-era punishment resurfaces in Crimea: the political abuse of psychiatry
On 26 January 2017, a prominent human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was on his way to the home…
History repeats in Russia as FSB raids human rights activist from KGB-repressed family
After the arrest of the Crimean Tatar lawyer Emil Kurbedinov and growing pressure on his Russian colleague Nikolai…
West’s failure to confront Putin on Olympics convinced him he could invade Ukraine without penalty, Titov says
Many trace the origins of Vladimir Putin’s conviction that the West will ultimately come to accept whatever he…
A tribute to Andrei Sakharov, champion of Freedom
Twenty-seven years ago, on December 14, 1989, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov died of a heart attack at the age…
Johnny Depp joins campaign in support of Oleg Sentsov
The famous Hollywood actor and director Johnny Depp has spoken out in support of his colleague, the Ukrainian…
Ukrainian human rights group that helped bring down Soviet Union turns 40
In the mid-1970s, political confrontation between the USSR and the West reached such heights that it threatened to…
Sakha Constitutional Court in Russia rules ‘all the territory of Yakutia is the historical motherland of the Yakut people’
On October 21, 2016, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) handed down a decision that…
Write to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages on Victims of political repressions day
On October 30, Russia's Day of Remembrance of the victims of political repressions, write a letter to the…
Watch “Burning Doors” by the Belarus Free Theater online on October 12
The Belarus Free Theater, the only theater in Europe banned by its government on political grounds, will be…
“Snowden” – A Movie About a Hero or a Traitor?
Right now the much ballyhooed Oliver Stone film "Snowden" is showing in the majority of theaters in Russia,…
Religious persecution continues in occupied Donbas
Fundamental human rights in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine are being violated for over 2.5 years now.…
Don’t forget those kidnapped in occupied Crimea
On September 27, a chilly autumn day, several Crimean activists once again protested at the Embassy of the…
Soviet-era chronicle of human rights violations reanimated in Putin’s Russia
The legendary information bulletin, A Chronicle of Current Events, published by dissidents in the Soviet Union during 1968-1983,…
What the special mission of the Council of Europe “didn’t notice” in occupied Crimea
"We express our gratitude to you for organizing a special human rights monitoring mission in the temporarily occupied…
Putin’s Reign of Terror on Russia’s New Dissidents: “Cossacks” Attack Navalny Family as Police Watch
On May 17, 2016, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his family and colleagues from the Anti-Corruption Fund…
New sanctions possible if Russia keeps violating Ukrainian hostages’ rights #LetMyPeopleGo
European MPs Jacek Saryusz-Wolski and Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski wrote letters to representatives of Russian penitentiary services, where Ukrainian hostages…
Russia’s Criminalization of Protest: Ildar Dadin’s Appeal and Article 212.1
On March 31, in a much anticipated appellate procedure in Moscow City Court, a judge considered the appeal…
Nadiya Savchenko: This is my life you are playing with
Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko finally got to present her "last word," or closing statement, in the Donetsk (Russia)…