“We don’t need the State Department to hold a revolution”

Human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina. Photo: Kirill Kallinnikov / RIA Novosti. All rights reserved.

Russian human rights campaigner Svetlana Gannushkina has spent several decades defending the rights of refugees and forcibly displaced persons. She is the Chair of Russia’s Civic Assistance Committee, heads Memorial’s Migration Rights Network, and until 2012 was a member of Russia’s Presidential Council on the development of civil society and human rights.