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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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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

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