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Russia Under Putin: Echoes of the Soviet Era
Russian Rights Group Fined 15th Time For Breaking 'Foreign Agent' Rule
North Caucasus rights groups under threat due to Russian Justice Ministry lawsuit
Jailed Russian Activist Ponomaryov Warns Of 'Mass Political Repression'
Prominent Russian rights group closes amid crackdown
Russia jails elderly activist for protest call
Remembering Father Gleb Yakunin (March 4, 1934 – December 25, 2014)
Grisly death fuels tales of Russian police torture
Kremlin's New Attack on Human Rights
“I Will Return to a Different Russia”: Interview with Lev Ponomarev
Roman Super met with the legendary human rights defender to find out how the Presidential Administration responded to the petition and what it was like to...
Russia Under Putin: Echoes of the Soviet Era
Russia is undergoing an economic boom, and its citizens are free to travel and read what they want. But some observers say that Russian...
Russian Rights Group Fined 15th Time For Breaking 'Foreign Agent' Rule
A Russian court has fined For Human Rights, a federation of regional and local rights groups, for the 15th time for breaking the country's...
North Caucasus rights groups under threat due to Russian Justice Ministry lawsuit
Four rights groups operating in different republics of the North Caucasus may face closure due to a lawsuit filed by Russia's Ministry of Justice in the...
Jailed Russian Activist Ponomaryov Warns Of 'Mass Political Repression'
A Russian court has sentenced Lev Ponomaryov, a prominent human rights defender and critic of President Vladimir Putin, to 25 days in jail.
Prominent Russian rights group closes amid crackdown
Veteran human rights activist Lev Ponomarev has announced the dissolution of his For Human Rights movement. He was recently labeled a...
Russia jails elderly activist for protest call
A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced a 77-year-old rights activist to 25 days in jail for calling for protests against a growing crackdown...
Remembering Father Gleb Yakunin (March 4, 1934 – December 25, 2014)
IRD mourns the death on Christmas Day of Russian Orthodox priest and heroic dissident, Father Gleb Pavlovich Yakunin.
Grisly death fuels tales of Russian police torture
Albert Zagitov had barely set up his new fruit and vegetable stall at the bustling Volga market in the Russian city of Kazan when he was...
Kremlin's New Attack on Human Rights
Opinion | On the night of June 22 in Moscow, a busload of riot police along with private security guards and officials of the mayor's office...
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Veteran Russian human rights activist and politician, founder of For Human Rights movement and supporter of Memorial's activities.