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About Igor Gukovsky

Igor Gukovsky is a campaigner with the Memorial Human Rights Centre, where he works on its programme supporting individuals prosecuted for political reasons and protecting civil society activists in Russia.

Articles by Igor Gukovsky

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Adam Ramsay is Co-Editor at openDemocracyUK.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

Authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia, which is why you should get involved
John Lubbock
E-residency: the citizenship of the future?
Jaak Erik Laja
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

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

A helping hand at Russia’s protests

Igor Gukovsky 28 June 2017

Volunteer Elizaveta Nesterova talks about helping people arrested at rallies, relations with activists and Russia’s latest wave of protests. Русский

State, society and the individual in the Russian courtroom

Igor Gukovsky 23 May 2017

One of Russia’s leading human rights lawyers discusses competing realities inside and outside the courtroom. Русский

Rostov’s Red Army Faction

Igor Gukovsky 9 March 2017

Combating terrorism is one of the main responsibilities of a modern state, but in non-democratic states it can take strange forms. Русский

Making them pay for Maidan

Igor Gukovsky 2 February 2017

You can't understand the Kremlin's agenda without examining the situation of political prisoners — and Ukrainian citizens feature heavily in this list. Русский