Umerov case highlights why Crimean Anschluss a threat to Russians, Portnikov says
All people of good will can only welcome the release of Ilmi Umerov from a psychiatric hospital, after…
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Who is Ilmi Umerov, the Crimean Tatar Russia so fears?
After Russia illegally annexed Crimea in March 2014, the local officials were offered to pledge allegiance to 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,…
Punitive psychiatry returning with a vengeance in Putin’s Russia
Chechnya governor Ramzan Kadyrov’s call for incarcerating members of the Russian opposition in psychiatric prisons much as the…
Pavlensky’s six performances. Getting more dangerous each time
Pyotr Pavlensky is in pre-trial detention for setting the doors of the FSB, Russia's secret police that became…
When will Soviet psychiatry finally disappear?
In December of this year it will be 35 years since a group of human rights activists, psychiatrists,…
After Putin, Russians will say they were deceived just as Germans did after Hitler
Not all, but “the overwhelming majority of Germans sincerely believed” what Hitler said, just as not all but…
Putin and Savchenko: Diagnosing state idiocy
This text should have been written by Oleksandr Podrabinek instead of yours truly. The wonderful book, Dissidents, written…
Appeal to the world psychiatric community on behalf of Nadiya Savchenko
The history with the Ukrainian air force officer Nadiya Savchenko has acquired a psychiatric aspect. Detained by Russian secret…
Is there a resumption of political psychiatry in the former USSR?
By Robert van Voren Introduction Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, the former Soviet Union is again…
Nadiya Savchenko to spend one month in psychiatric institution
Nadiya Savchenko will spend one month at the The Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry.…
MFA asks international community to help free Ukrainian hostages in Russia
Statement of the MFA of Ukraine in connection with the illegal detention of the hostages Nadiya Savchenko, Oleh…
Statement for Sub-Committee on Human Rights of the European Parliament on the situation in Russia
Prof. Dr. Robert van Voren Postbus 1282 1200 BG Hilversum (NL) tel.:+31-651534123 / e-mail [email protected] / www.robertvanvoren.com Chamber…