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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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Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

Global connectivity and personal disconnect: filter bubbles and the collapse of public discourse
Richard Raber and Francesco Fanti Rovetta
Is language as we know it still relevant for the digital age?
Pavlo Shopin
The quiet revolution that could transform lives
Rachael Mpashi-Marx
Commons-sense? Contemporary challenges and prospects of community shared resources
Antonis Broumas, David Bollier and Yavor Tarinski
The debate the media won't have: government snooping made NHS hacking easier
Sunny Hundal
Changing the world without taking power? Bitcoin and the challenges of consensus
Nozomi Hayase
The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult
Chenchen Zhang
Pokéwalking while black: Pokémon GO and America’s ‘e-quality’ of life
Anna Everett and Corrigan E. Vaughan

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