Pussy Riot, the famous Russian feminist punk band, gave a concert at CIVICUS’ ICSW annual conference in Belgrade this week. The show focused on the experience of protesters being jailed in Putin’s Russia, something they themselves have endured. Español
After a year in pre-trial detention, Oyub Titiyev becomes the latest civil society activist to be convicted on what rights defenders believe are fabricated drugs charges.
In Russia, 11 anti-fascists and anarchists are facing terrorism charges - and the case is about to go to trial. According to one of their lawyers, there's no evidence of a conspiracy.
This year, brutal repressions against LGBT people continued in Chechnya. Here, the director of the Russian LGBT Network speaks about why this keeps happening.
Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with contemporary conflicts in their search for friendship and recognition.
Five years on, the role of local people in Russia’s annexation of Crimea has been underestimated. Yet their help was vital in seizing the peninsula for Russia.
Внедрение теологии в светские вузы видится многим критикам как еще один шаг в сторону идеологии “духовных скреп”. Однако теология может помочь развитию демократии, если будет опираться на принцип академических свобод.
The fundamental ideology of the Putin regime may be depoliticisation, but protests and petitions are leading to direct and open questions to Russia’s ruling elite.
After years of violence, displacement and an authoritarian peace, what is life like for ethnic Russians in the most mono-ethnic and mono-faith area of Russia?
