Publication Feb 22, 2018 Russian opposition leader arrested ahead of presidential election (The Independent) – Russia’s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, said he had been detained by police weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running. Mr…
Publication Feb 15, 2018 Navalny Website Blocked In Russia Over ‘Rybkagate’ Report (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – Internet service providers in Russia began blocking access to opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s website on February 15 following an order from the country’s communications regulator,…
Media Jan 30, 2018 European Court Says Russia Violated Rights Of Bolotnaya Protesters (Radio Free Europe) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia violated the rights of three men who were jailed in connection with a protest on…
Media Jan 23, 2018 Chechnya’s Dictator, Recently Hit With US Sanctions, Blames NGOs (Gizmodo) – The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was recently hit with US sanctions over human rights abuses such as his government’s torture and “purge” of…
Media Jan 22, 2018 Russian Court Closes Foundation of Kremlin Critic Aleksei Navalny A Moscow court on Monday ordered the closing of a foundation supporting the activities of Aleksei A. Navalny, the country’s leading opposition politician, moving quickly in a case filed only this month by the Justice Ministry.
Media Jan 17, 2018 Russian human rights group has offices torched after leader’s arrest (The Guardian) – Masked men have torched the offices of a prominent human rights organisation in Ingushetia in southern Russia, days after the head of its operations in neighbouring Chechnya…
News Jan 10, 2018 Rights Groups Condemn Chechnya Activist’s ‘Abduction’ (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – Human rights groups in Russia and abroad are condemning the detention of a leading activist in Chechnya on a narcotics charge they contend was fabricated,…
News Dec 5, 2017 Russia names Radio Free Europe and Voice of America ‘foreign agents’ (The Washington Post) – Russia on Tuesday named Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and seven affiliated news services as foreign agents, and the Russian parliament prepared to ban the organizations from attending its sessions.
News Nov 17, 2017 Russia vetoes UN resolution on chemical weapons probe in Syria (CNN) – Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Thursday that would have renewed a mandate for the independent group investigating chemical weapons attacks in Syria.
News Nov 8, 2017 Art of dissent: Protesting Russia’s Putin with Pussy Riot Their goal is for people to experience the brutality and oppression of Putin’s Russia. The play will be featured at the Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea neighborhood from November 14 to December 24.
News Oct 31, 2017 Putin Critic Who Fought Pro-Russia Rebels Shot Dead in Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine — A prominent couple who were fierce critics of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in June was attacked again on Monday.
News Oct 23, 2025 Russian radio journalist stabbed in neck at her Moscow office Tatyana Felgenhauer, the deputy editor of Ekho Moskvy radio station, was attacked on Monday lunchtime at the station’s studios in central Moscow.
News Oct 17, 2017 Russian opposition leader’s fraud conviction arbitrary, Europe’s top rights court says STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s conviction for fraud in 2014 had been “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”..
Blog Post Oct 13, 2017 The Russia Download // Special issue on elections and disinformation Last week, Facebook’s disclosure that an estimated 10 million people in the United States saw political ads bought by accounts connected to the Russian government rekindled the conversation about Russia’s interference in the U.S. elections.
News Oct 3, 2017 Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail MOSCOW — The Russian opposition politician Aleksei A. Navalny was convicted and sentenced to 20 days in jail by a Russian court on Monday for repeated violation of rules governing public demonstrations — a term long enough for him to miss a major rally he and supporters had scheduled for Saturday.
Press Release Jul 11, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 4) Real Russia Today is a news digest with the most important news from Russia.
Blog Post Jul 7, 2017 Russia tried to stop us from protesting On June 12, when I arrived to St. Petersburg’s Marsovo field, it wasn’t clear who came to participate in a protest and who was there just to celebrate Russia Day.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 HRF Real Russia Today (Part 1) The U.S. government on Wednesday unsealed charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 4) Britain’s high street banks processed nearly $740m from a vast money-laundering operation run by Russian criminals with links to the Russian government and the KGB, the Guardian can reveal.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 2) Three years ago, OCCRP exposed the “Russian Laundromat” – an immense financial fraud scheme that enabled vast sums to be pumped out of Russia.
