Newsletter Aug 13, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #133 In Russia, Putin’s dictatorship officially designated the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) as an “undesirable” organization.
Human Rights Dispatch Aug 11, 2026 HRF Counter-Repression Toolkit, Russia Bars Yabloko Party, Belarus Marks Stolen Election Today, HRF launched a new resource to help activists and diaspora communities confront China’s transnational repression (TNR).
Human Rights Dispatch Aug 7, 2026 Thailand Hosts Burma Junta Chief, Russia Labels HRF “Undesirable”, and more. Russia has designated HRF an “undesirable organization,” criminalizing our work inside the country and threatening anyone who engages with us with fines and imprisonment.
Press Release Aug 6, 2026 Russia designates HRF as “undesirable” in response to Tyranny Tracker’s “fully authoritarian” assessment NEW YORK (Aug. 6, 2026) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the decision by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation to officially designate HRF and its work as “undesirable.”
Newsletter Aug 6, 2026 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #132 In Syria, the transitional government replaced the Assad-era pound, which lost more than 99% of its value since 2011. The new pound removes two zeros from the old currency, but the process has created new barriers for Syrians holding old banknotes outside the formal economy, especially those who are unbanked, far from Damascus, or reliant on cash.
Press Release Jul 16, 2026 HRF and Reporters Without Borders Submit Urgent UN Updates on Imprisoned Crimean Citizen-Journalist Iryna Danylovych Arbitrarily detained by Russia since 2022, independent Crimean journalist Iryna Danilovych is enduring inhumane detention conditions and serious violations of her fundamental rights.
Op-Ed Jun 17, 2026 Roman Abramovich Can Talk to Moscow and Kyiv. But He Can’t Change Putin’s Mind. Earlier this month, a familiar name re-entered the ongoing push for a negotiated settlement to Russia’s war in Ukraine: sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 16, 2026 Uganda Military Abducts Lawyer Erias Lukwago, Russia’s Regional Influence Collapses In a @WSJ op-ed, @cjcmichel, Director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, argues that Russia’s influence across the former Soviet space has collapsed – as have its pretensions about being the leading regional power.
Op-Ed Jun 15, 2026 Russia Has Lost Its ‘Near Abroad’ As Ukraine fights back, every other ex-Soviet republic but Belarus distances itself from Moscow.
Op-Ed Mar 23, 2026 Russia Is Failing Its Allies When It Matters Most The war in Iran, and especially the quick decapitation of the country’s leadership structure, has been a swift, remarkable display of American power and Israeli determination. But there is one other fact it has proven: an alliance with Moscow counts for little when a regime faces its greatest threat.
Op-Ed Feb 27, 2026 We’ve overestimated Russia for too long The recent anniversary of Russia’s expanded invasion, which is now stretching into its fifth year, is as good a time as any to take stock of the state of the war itself.
Op-Ed Jan 30, 2026 Don’t Forget the Many Ways Russia Tried To Justify Invading Ukraine As negotiations continue to drag on between Washington, Kyiv and Moscow, the Kremlin’s narrative about the war has centered on one potential solution: evicting Ukrainian forces from the Donbas.
Op-Ed Mar 16, 2024 5 Scenarios for Russia After Putin’s Next Term This weekend, Vladimir Putin will win another election as Russia’s president.
Newsletter Feb 23, 2024 HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #12 Over the last week, we mourned the murder of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny by Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Press Release Oct 9, 2023 HRF to UN: Do Not Elect Dictatorships to Human Rights Council On Oct. 10, 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) face the crucial task of filling 15 of the 47 seats of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
Blog Post Aug 11, 2023 Show Trials and Political Persecution: Judiciary in Putin’s Russia From Tsarism to the modern era, Russian leaders have attempted to mold the nation’s judiciary for their own gain and employ it as a weapon against their political opponents. In today’s Russia, this is evident by laws that limit anti-government demonstrations and criminalize anti-war speech.
Announcement Mar 5, 2022 A PutinCon Retrospective The Putin regime is the gravest threat to democracy and human rights that exists in the world today.
