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Oksana Chelysheva

Oksana Chelysheva is a Russian journalist who works for the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. Along with her colleague Stanislav Dmitrievsky, she received the Amnesty International UK media award for "human-rights journalism under threat" in 2006.

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Russia's iceberg: a Nizhny Novgorod report

The crushing of a peaceful protest march in Russia’s third-largest city is a disturbing signal of the Kremlin’s new authoritarianism, says Oksana Chelysheva.

The decline of freedom in Russia

The Chechen factor connects the closure of her Russian-Chechen Friendship Society with the killings of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, says Oksana Chelysheva.

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