Non-resistance to xenophobia and intolerance on the part of the Russian authorities has long become commonplace, but acceptance of racism by oppositionists, who pay lip service to tolerance and humanism as the basis of their activities, is puzzling. The Yabloko…
Excited by the recent searches of the Gogol Center and, especially, the apartment of the famous theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, as well as by the police attention to the company of another director, Alexey Uchitel, the Russian blogosphere fluctuated from…
“Order” or human rights, what is more important? This was the question posed by the lawyer representing the interests of Noe Mskhiladze (with the support of ADC “Memorial”) in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. On April 18, 2017…
The bits and pieces of information on the persecution of gay people in Chechnya that trickled down to the media scare one with the scale, purposefulness and somewhat radical brutality of violence against the victims. At the same time…
The festive “Women’s Day” is over and the gloomy days of late winter follow one after another, as March in Russia has the same distant relation to real spring as women’s rights have little to do with a strange tradition…
Because of a recent attempt by the Russian Orthodox Church to seize St. Petersburg St. Isaac’s Cathedral in February 2017, many people remembered the events of a century ago. The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church also apparently considered the…
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