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About Tanya Lokshina

Tanya Lokshina is Senior Russia Researcher, Human Rights Watch

Articles by Tanya Lokshina

Friday 2nd December

Shrugging for Putin: Russia's flawed elections

Tanya Lokshina, 2 December 2011
Russia holds parliamentary elections on Sunday, but with most of the important questions already well answered, there is little in the way of pre-election suspense. Tanya Lokshina writes on crows, apathy and a growing number for whom Putin’s soft authoritarianism is already yesterday’s story.
Friday 11th November

Russian TV: a different truth for east and west?

Tanya Lokshina, 11 November 2011
Russia’s 9 time zones are often exploited by TV management to pull controversial programmes, but the internet has changed the rules of the game. A recent film about kidnap victims in Chechnya was shown in the Far East, but not in European Russia. The ensuing outcry and internet activity show that people have had enough of censorship, says Tanya Lokshina
Wednesday 2nd March

Caucasian prisoners (or how not to deal with militancy in Dagestan)

Tanya Lokshina, 2 March 2011
The southern republic of Dagestan is now Russia’s most violent flashpoint. Besieged by militants from one side, the republic is no better served by its security services on the other. Indeed, the brutality and lawlessness of these government forces actually risks motivating yet more young men to ‘go to the forest’ and join the fighters.

Monday 27th September

Chechnya: choked by headscarves

Tanya Lokshina, 27 September 2010
In Chechnya there is official support for attacks on women when they are considered to have ‘flouted’ Islamic rules by not wearing a headscarf or covering up enough. Tanya Lokshina listened to some of the women’s despairing accounts.
Wednesday 21st July

Natasha Estemirova: one year on

Tanya Lokshina, 21 July 2010
On 15 July 2009 Natasha Estemirova was kidnapped outside her flat in Grozny, bundled into a car, driven away and shot. One year later Tanya Lokshina still grieves for her, reflecting how difficult it is to come to terms with her death
Thursday 17th June

The Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine Harm

Tanya Lokshina, 17 June 2010
On April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black widows’ who had been recruited by the militants. When the press published the names of 22, Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch found that she knew some of these dangerous women : a seamstress whose real crime was being a human rights worker, a pious young mother whose husband had been tortured in the ‘6th Department’...
Thursday 3rd June

President Medvedev summons Russia’s human rights workers

Tanya Lokshina, 3 June 2010
On 19 May, at a meeting with the main human rights organizations working in the republics of the North Caucasus, President Medvedev enjoined the local authorities to work with the NGOs to enforce the rule of law and tackle abuses of power by the security forces. Tanya Lokshina, of Human Rights Watch’s Russia Office, who was there, intends to hold the president to his words
Wednesday 10th March

Grozny: Rebuilt, Fearful and (Almost) Forgotten by the West

Tanya Lokshina, 10 March 2010
Downtown Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, is ablaze with lights and full of chic shops now. But the paralysing fear remains. Human Rights Watch’s Tanya Lokshina and her Memorial colleagues tell a rare visitor from the West about the kidnappings, about the relatives too fearful to complain...
Thursday 11th February

Moscow protests: Groundhog Day in Triumfalnaya Square

Tanya Lokshina, 11 February 2010
Tanya Lokshina, Russia researcher for Human Rights Watch, attended a recent demonstration in her professional capacity and was detained by the police three times in thirty minutes. She gives a graphic description of the evening’s events.
Tuesday 1st September

Natalia Estemirova, champion of ordinary Chechens

Tanya Lokshina, 1 September 2009
A great champion of human rights remembered.
Thursday 2nd July

Chechnya: the torchings

Tanya Lokshina, 2 July 2009
Human Rights Watch today publishes a report What Your Children Do Will Touch Upon You, a study of punitive house burning by the authorities in Chechnya.  In this summary Tanya Lokshina documents how family property is burnt down and lives destroyed in attempts to force alleged insurgents to surrender.
Tuesday 9th June

‘Wahhabi’ village in Dagestan

Tanya Lokshina, 9 June 2009
As human rights violations escalate in the North Caucasus, Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch visits Dagestan, supposedly riven by the struggle between ‘Wahhabis' and the authorities. She visits the so-called ‘Wahhabi' village of Gudben. 
Tuesday 19th May

Dagestan: curse of the sixth department

Tanya Lokshina, 19 May 2009
A harrowing report on one of most turbulent republics in Russia's Northern Caucasus
Monday 27th April

Ending Chechnya’s counterterrorism operation - or not

Tanya Lokshina, 27 April 2009
The "ending" of counterterrorism operations in Chechnya is really no end
Friday 30th January

Georgia war: auditing the damage

Tanya Lokshina, 30 January 2009
Tanya Lokshina presents a major report by Human Rights Watch
Wednesday 12th November

South Ossetia: aftermath of war

Tanya Lokshina, 12 November 2008
A journey through the fire, waste and longing of a region in search of life
Monday 6th October

Putin, Chechnya, and Politkovskaya

Tanya Lokshina, 6 October 2008
Two years since a brave writer's killing, Tanya Lokshina's tribute; and her own Chechen report  
Tuesday 16th September

A month after the war

Tanya Lokshina, 16 September 2008
"The house has only just burnt down." The aged Georgian villagers of South Ossetia need help 
Monday 1st September

South Ossetia: Tskhinvali’s Apocalypse

Tanya Lokshina, 1 September 2008
A stunning report from South Ossetia's capital. Plus: Ivan Sukhov on Russia's post-war Caucasus trouble, Inal Khashig on the west's Abkhaz lesson, Zygmunt Dzieciolowski on Sukhumi's independence case
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