by Stefania Kulayeva Following the shooting down of Malaysian Airline MH17 flight, people started bringing flowers and toys to Dutch embassies. I couldn’t understand – who are these toys for, why?.. Are they the symbols of murdered children, children who…
by Olga Abramenko Justice of peace of Rostov region made a ruling on July 8, 2014, which obliged NGO “Union of Women of Don” to pay Rb300,000 in penalty payments because organization failed to get voluntarily listed in a special…
Ukrainian and Russian bloggers published a list of accounts in various social networks, belonging to “volunteers” from Russia who are fighting for Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics”. It is noteworthy to see how they represent a whole spectrum of various…
Recently European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) has combined several court cases related to justice in Russia based on systematic violations of the rights of prosecuted who had been ruled guilty in the absence of key witnesses. In all…
by Stefania Kulayeva Some witty person once proposed to change the well known words of Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev “Who would grasp Russia with the mind?” by inserting another country’s name there. Thus a following piece was born: Who would…
by Anna Udyarova, lawyer of ADC “Memorial” When I first read the prosecutor’s suit and learnt what they chose as the reason (or, better say, pretext) for our persecution, I was very surprised. It sounded absurd: prosecution for a report…
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