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Human RightsAs the human rights organisation Memorial wins Europe's Sakharov Prize, we celebrate with this essay by one of its founders
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
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
What exactly was confiscated when the Prosecutor's Office in St Petersburg raided the premises of the human rights organisation Memorial on 4 December 2008?
The human rights organisation
Memorial has representatives all over Russia and neighbouring countries.
How do ordinary people become human rights advocates? And how do they work with the European Court of Human Rights? Dokka was head official of his
village in Chechnya when he became involved, during Russia's
first war against Chechnya.
This is his remarkable, typical, story.
Yesterday, 4 November,
armed police raided the Petersburg offices of Russia's leading human rights
organisation Memorial. Why did they do
it? And what does it portend?
A post-war buffer-zone remains tense, a Russian rights activist reports
A journey through the fire, waste and longing of a region in search of life
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