In late January, my husband Viktor Filinkov went missing on route to Petersburg airport. When I found him two days later, he’d been tortured and charged with terrorism.
On the eve of Russia’s presidential elections, a new wave of repressions has begun. This 2011 case demonstrates how these prosecutions are fabricated – and their impacts on real people’s lives. RU
This Russian activist received a one-year prison sentence for allegedly kicking a police officer during an anti-corruption rally in March 2017.
Пренебрегая поддержкой электората в национальных республиках, можно больше получить, чем потерять. English
Как объявленный Алексеем Навальным бойкот президентских выборов стал продолжением его радикальной уличной политики – и объектом критики либерального лагеря. English
Recent revelations concerning a Russian oligarch and Russian deputy prime minister demonstrate how friendship, business and politics are intertwined in the Russian state’s influencing operations. RU
A wave of brutal crackdowns on LGBT communities in the post-Soviet space has exposed civil society’s shortcomings — and destroyed lives.
The stand-off between Ukraine’s “Moscow church” and patriotic citizens receives a new breath of life in the country’s capital. RU
A leading British newspaper is using patchy “evidence”, insinuation and intrigue to vilify the UK university protest. We know these techniques well from our research into Russian propaganda.
This week, a Russian activist was prosecuted in a landmark trial that is being used to restrict freedom of assembly — and punish citizens who try to assert it.
Депортация чеченцев и ингушей в 1944 была не только насильственным выселением двух народов. Она стала способом уничтожения культуры репрессированных. English
