"Sakharov Institute" and the movement named after him are recognised as "undesirable" Information about this appeared on the website of the Russian Ministry of Justice; the decision on the listing was dated 22 July. It is noteworthy that the Sakharov Institute, at least, has a legal entity in Europe, while the movement "Peace. Progress. Human Rights" is a completely informal structure, a community of people with no legal entities, no

St Petersburg activist Dasha Kozyreva began to be persecuted almost from the very beginning of the war, in the spring of 2022, when she was just 17 years old. Fragments of a letter from 19-year-old Dasha Kozyreva, convicted for poetry by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko Then the girl wrote on a city installation dedicated to the ‘twinning’ of St. Petersburg and occupied Mariupol the phrase "Murderers, you bombed

"You can't shut everyone up. If that puts me in prison, then so be it. It's much easier for my voice to be heard all the stronger," said Alexander Skobow on 21 March 2025 Alexander Skobov in court in a security cell - called an aquarium. Photo: Dmitry Zyganov When he was sentenced by the First Western Military Court in Moscow to 16 years in prison for justifying

Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev will hold the second part of the seminar ‘The Role of Human Rights in the Modern World’ 6 June, Friday, 18:30 - 20:00 📍Espace Libertés | Reforum Space Paris The role of human rights in the modern world. Part 2 Seminar by Lev Ponomarev ‘... We begin our seminar in the days when the world is frozen in uncertainty - whether the fratricidal war

On 24 February 2024, 19-year-old student and anti-war activist Daria Kozyreva was arrested in Saint Petersburg. Daria holds her mother's hand while the judge reads the judgement. Photo: Sota Vision On 24 February 2024, 19-year-old student and anti-war activist Daria Kozyreva was arrested in Saint Petersburg. The charge: she had placed a printout of the poem "Testament" by Taras Shevchenko on his memorial. The quoted lines read: "Bury