About Anna Sevortian
Anna Sevortian is a consultant with Human Rights Watch.
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‘NGO’ has become a dirty word in Russia. The organisations most
committed to helping Russia develop a meaningful civil society have become
pariahs, branded as ‘foreign agents.’ Under the tightened screws, we are asking
the question: ‘Do NGOs in Russia have any future?’
Gogol's government inspector was a figure of fun. Russia's new government inspectors are anything but funny.
Anna Sevortian and Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch present a new week-long series on openDemocracy Russia.jpg)
For many in Russia the word ‘Strasbourg’ is identified with justice and the protection of human rights and the European Court receives thousands of applications every year. But recent proposed amendments to Russian laws would make the process of applying to Strasbourg more complicated and give the Russian Constitutional Court powers to override judgments from Strasbourg, says Anna SevortianAnna Sevortian
One quarter of a century earlier than openDemocracy, on 12 May 1976, the Moscow Helsinki Group was born. It emerged from a dissident idea which reasoned that citizen groups can and should observe governments’ compliance with international human rights agreements. It was a movement that transformed the world and our understanding of politics. If there is one thing we have learnt from this history, it is that the single most powerful way to progress is greater intellectual freedom and open exchange of ideas and information. openDemocracy will play a central role in delivering that, right up to 2050.
Russian human rights activists routinely put themselves in danger’s way, but are largely unappreciated and mistrusted by their compatriots. In times of despair, Anna Sevortian is brought back to one thing: idealism.Russia’s seeds of change
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