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The Moscow Times: When a Moscow court sentenced a 16-year-old boy from the republic of Chechnya to nearly two years in a penal colony last month, it did so in defiance of Chechens across the political spectrum. Murdiev was placed…

The newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe published an article ‘Undocumented’ about the trend towards stripping Russians with no second passport of their citizenship has become the latest method being employed by the Russian authorities to exert pressure on activists, with those…

The Barents Observer in the article ‘Children of War. Norwegian benefactors fund foundations supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’ tells us, that the organisation of evangelist Steinar Harila from Kristiansand spends millions of kroner on charitable projects in Russia. One of…

Russian organizations, both public and private, often impose discriminatory requirements on contractors, a new post from RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, Systema, highlights. Many official tender documents explicitly state that cleaning, security, and equipment installation must be handled exclusively by people…

The government of St. Petersburg has announced that the city‘s surveillance cameras will be set up to recognize ethnicity. The contract for the relevant services was signed by the Committee on Interethnic Relations.  As Stefania Kulaeva, expert of ADC Memorial,…

ADC Memorial expresses solidarity with the independent journalists of the Barents Observer, who are being persecuted for their principled support of the rights of minorities, indigenous peoples of the North, and LGBTI+ people. Immediately after the European Court of Human…