Human Rights: all articles

Alexander Podrabinek, a former Soviet dissident, provoked a furore when he criticised pro-USSR revisionism on his blog

In 2010, Kazakhstan takes over the chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Increasingly strident attempts to muzzle independent voices in the Kazakh media suggests how the government is preparing itself, says Irada Huseinova

An exchange between renowned novelist and jailed ex-oligarch opens a buried history

The middle classes the world over have spent 20 years swapping their freedoms for security and prosperity. While Putin delivered this neo-Hobbesian bargain in Russia, its ur-model is Singapore

Georgian refugees from Abkhazia ask whether they will ever be able to go home

The human rights activist worked tirelessly to hold the Kremlin accountable for its actions in Chechnya

Penal colonies still hold thousands of prisoners in the Kirov Oblast

Surreal twists and turns as Russia's most famous oligarch reappears in court

An account of life in an industrial Russian town hard-hit by the economic slow-down

How do people spend a sunny public May holiday in the provincial city of Izhevsk ? Nadezhda Gladysh sets out with her collie dog Greg

The "ending" of counterterrorism operations in Chechnya is really no end

Educated gastarbeiters in Moscow may not sleep under lorries, but they are subject to prejudice and potential harassment, says Irada Huseinova

 

This impassioned blog comes from the streets of Moldova's capital. Natalia Morar is one of the young people who sparked the mass demonstrations against recent elections which returned the communists to power.

Russia's vast migrant workforce faces mounting abuse, reveals a new report

An Uzbek physics teacher works as a builder in Russia to feed his family. Read his story

Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov was gunned down on a Moscow street in January. His friend, a leading light in Memorial, remembers him

The raid by on Memorial's offices in St Petersburg in December 2008 has far wider ramifications for Russia's identity and history. What action have the courts taken? And what was the real purpose of the raid?

A trial ended, the accused freed, a journalist's murder unsolved. We saw it coming (archive)

The latest killings are a tale of impunity and fearlessness, says Novaya Gazeta; plus the slain Anastasia Baburova's moving blog

Why is Russia romanticising the memory of Stalinism, enquires Memorial's founder Arseny Roginsky, when its defining feature was the use of terror?