Op-Ed May 28, 2023 HRF Op-Ed: Make Russia Pay For months, the West has fretted over the prospect of paying for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Russia’s war has inflicted an estimated $400 billion in rebuilding costs, a tally that rises every day. Western leaders, already alarmed by inflation and the threat of recession, have understandably blanched over the bill.
News May 12, 2023 Taken – HRF x The Signal No American had been arrested on charges of espionage in Russia since the Cold War—until The Wall Street Journal’s reporter Evan Gershkovich was just less than two months ago.
Op-Ed Apr 28, 2023 Russia has stifled another Putin opponent. Here’s how the West might help him Some 70 US lawmakers wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week, urging the Biden administration to press Russia for the release of imprisoned dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Blog Post Mar 27, 2023 Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine – What’s a Court in the Hague Got to Do With It? On March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children to Russia.
Blog Post Feb 24, 2023 February 24, One Year Later: Putin’s Playbook On Feb. 24, the Russian army, on the orders of Vladimir Putin, began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation of just over 43 million people.
Blog Post Feb 24, 2023 February 24, One Year Later: Repression in Russia On Feb. 24, the Russian army, on the orders of Vladimir Putin, began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign nation of just over 43 million people.
Press Release Feb 27, 2022 How To Support Ukrainians On Thursday, February 24th, Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine. Over the past several days, Russian forces have launched missile strikes on Ukrainian cities, shelled Ukrainian military positions, and advanced across the border.
Press Release Feb 24, 2022 Russia Invades Ukraine. Democratic Nations Should Make Putin Pay. NEW YORK (February 24, 2022) — At 4AM local time, Russian troops invaded and launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine.
Press Release Feb 3, 2021 HRF to Biden Administration: Focus on Worst Human Rights Offenders NEW YORK (February 3, 2021) – Following the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in the United States on January 20, 2021
Blog Post Feb 3, 2021 After Navalny’s Conviction, It’s Time for the Biden Administration to Act On February 2, following a sham trial in Moscow, Putin critic Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison under the pretense of having violated his parole by seeking emergency treatment in Germany, following an assassination attempt by Russia’s secret police, the FSB.
Announcement Dec 1, 2020 State-Sponsored Hacking: Russia, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea At the 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum, the Human Rights Foundation hosted a panel discussion about how dictatorships employ cyber attacks at home and abroad.
Media May 23, 2018 Aides Jailed For Anti-Putin Protests As Navalny Appeal Rejected (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – A Moscow court has ordered the press secretary of jailed opposition politician and anticorruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny to be jailed for 25 days over…
Media May 7, 2018 Putin Starts Fourth Presidential Term (NPR) – Russian President Vladimir Putin took the oath of office for a fourth term as president – solidifying his place as the country’s longest-serving leader since Communist dictator Josef…
Media Apr 16, 2018 Moscow Court Blocks Telegram (Bloomberg) – A Moscow court ordered telecommunications companies to block Telegram in Russia after the chat app refused to grant intelligence authorities access to users’ encrypted messages, in a blow…
Media Apr 6, 2018 ‘We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets’ Amid the recriminations over the Sergei Skprial poisoning, questions have been raised about how the UK government deals with Russia. Is expelling diplomats enough? Or would clamping down on the…
Publication Mar 27, 2018 China and Russia accused of waging ‘war on human rights’ at UN China and Russia are leading a stealthy and increasingly successful effort at the United Nations to weaken UN efforts to protect human rights around the world, according to diplomats and…
