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Published in: oDRThe Poet and the TsarWhen Putin sat down to tea with artists and musicians before a charity concert last month, he could not have...
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Published in: oDRWhy the FSB is not the KGB!Last month amendments were passed to the law codifying the FSB’s surveillance of those citizens deemed to be threats...
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Published in: oDRA thorn in the side of Georgia’s Rose RevolutionVakhtang Komakhidze was an investigative journalist in Georgia with a nose for a story and a record of annoying the...
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Published in: openSecurityLawfair
Court scrutiny of the British security services is to be welcomed; we can't debate properly our security needs...
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Published in: oDRWhat is Strategy 31?
For the last 12 months Russian cities have witnessed regular demonstrations to protest restrictions on the right to...
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Published in: oDRSoviet anti-religion has returned, claim Europe's last surviving pagansIn their remote forest republic 400 miles east of the Moscow, the pagan Mari people are once again being harassed by...
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Published in: Home14 Shocking Facts That Prove the US Criminal Justice System Is Racist
The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans...
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Published in: oDRIgor Sutyagin and the price of freedomThe imprisonment of military researcher Igor Sutyagin for alleged espionage has long troubled Russian human rights...
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Published in: oDRGastarbeiters in kino: Russia's invisible class gets its big break
At the recent Kinotavr film festival — "Russia's Cannes" — the main competition featured no less than three films...
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Published in: oDRNatasha Estemirova: one year onOn 15 July 2009 Natasha Estemirova was kidnapped outside her flat in Grozny, bundled into a car, driven away and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBritain's future - where do the Labour candidates stand?With hustings for the Labour Party Leadership well underway, the five candidates have been busy battling to distance...
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Published in: oDRForbidden Art verdict: they're in mourning for Soviet censorshipOn 12 July, the judge found Andrei Erofeev and Yurii Samodurov, organisers of the exhibition Forbidden Art – 2006,...
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Published in: oDRRussia back in the dock over 'Forbidden Art'Three years ago an exhibition at Moscow’s Sakharov Centre of previously banned work entitled Forbidden Art led to...
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Published in: oDRKhodorkovsky trial: a regime in the dockThe accusations against Khodorkovsky have collapsed now that two senior establishment figures have testified. He may...
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Published in: oDRAnimals in the CourtroomEx-Yukos bosses Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev stand accused of a crime that even prosecutors are finding...
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Published in: oDRThe Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine HarmOn April 9 2010, after explosions in the Moscow metro killed 39 people, rumours were circulated of 1,000 ‘black...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka's war: time for accountability
The end of Sri Lanka’s post-war electoral cycle makes it even more important for the world to stand for justice over...
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Published in: oDRRector takes on Ukranian Security ServicesOn May 18, the Ukrainian Security Services paid a strange visit to Borys Gudziak, rector of the Ukrainian Catholic...
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Published in: oDRPresident Medvedev summons Russia’s human rights workers
On 19 May, at a meeting with the main human rights organizations working in the republics of the North Caucasus,...
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Published in: oDRChildren in prison
The approach to juvenile lawbreakers in Russia and in England & Wales is more punitive than in other European...
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Published in: Live discussionsWhy do Russians support the war?
