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About Grigory Okhotin

Grigory Okhotin is a researcher and independent journalist, and one of the founding members of OVD-Info in Russia.

Articles by Grigory Okhotin

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Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares
Why BigData is running roughshod over the NHS - and what to do about it
Phil Booth
Shielding data from the "five eyes": we need to stand up for encryption
Rebecca Vincent
Child safeguarding cloaks state surveillance and data exploitation
Jen Persson
Theresa May’s counter-extremism plan will create an incompetent police state
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Crowdfunding to bypass Russia’s civil society crackdown

Grigory Okhotin 21 March 2017

With heightened restrictions on foreign funding, reporting on the Russian government’s repression requires creative social media projects. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on new business models for human rights. Ру́сский.

Краудфандинг вытягивает российское гражданское общество из нокдауна

Grigory Okhotin 21 March 2017

Ужесточение ограничений на иностранное финансирование требует от российских проектов, занимающихся мониторингом репрессий, быть все более креативными. Реплика в дискуссии openGlobalRights по новым бизнес-моделям в области прав человека. English.

Arrest and custody, Russian-style

Grigory Okhotin 22 February 2013

Police custody, violence, trials and imprisonment have been all to common features on the Russian protest landscape since December 2011. A grassroots monitoring project called OVD-info has kept realtime data on the arrests; co-founder Grigory Okhotin shares their findings.