The worst year in the history of post-Soviet Russia Sergey Davidis on the offensive against human rights in Russia in 2021 Police officers detain a Memorial supporter outside Russia's Supreme Court, after prosecutor's request to dissolve Memorial International, the country's most prominent rights group, for allegedly violating the controversial law on "foreign agents", in Moscow on December 28, 2021. - Russia's Supreme Court on December 28, 2021 will consider

Russian Ministry of Justice asks to close LGBT fund for the sake of "traditional family values" The St. Petersburg Department of the Ministry of Justice of Russia filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking the liquidation of the Sphere charity foundation (recognized as an NGO that acts as a foreign agent) that supports Russian LGBT initiatives. On Wednesday it became known that the court left the claim for the liquidation of

Alexei Navalny, the jailed top critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been put on a list of banned individuals. Russia adds Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to 'terrorist' list The move puts Navalny and several of his allies on a par with extremist group "Islamic State." Russia on Tuesday put  Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny and a number of his allies, including a main aide, Lyubov Sobol, on a database of "terrorists and extremists."

  Police kidnapped the wife of the ex-judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Saidi Yangulbayev On January 20, 2022, armed and masked men identifying themselves as Chechen law enforcement officials broke into the flat of the ex-judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Saidi Yangulbayev and Zarema Musayeva in Nizhny Novgorod. They showed an order to bring the family to Chechnya as witnesses in a fraud case, after which

The European Court of Human Rights upheld the complaint filed by 39 victims of the seizure of a school in Beslan and awarded them compensation for non-pecuniary damage ECHR awards 360,000-euro compensation to victims of terror act in Beslan     The European Court of Human Rights upheld the complaint filed by 39 victims of the seizure of a school in Beslan and awarded them compensation for non-pecuniary damage. The

The decision to block the site was made by a court in the Moscow region. OVD-Info has not yet received a message from Roskomnadzor about the reasons for the blocking. The website of the human rights project "OVD-Info" is blocked in Russia The decision to block the site was made by a court in the Moscow region. OVD-Info has not yet received a message from Roskomnadzor about the reasons for

Putin on torture of Irkutsk prisoners: look at Europe and the United States Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the massive violence in the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service, including the Irkutsk region. Answering a direct question, he decided to talk about the experience of torture in other states. Ksenia Sobchak asked Putin about his attitude to mass torture in Russian colonies and pre-trial detention centers at a press