In Arkhangelsk a criminal investigation has been initiated against the Head of the Faculty of Russian History of the Pomorsky State University, Professor Mikhail Suprun and the Head of the Information Centre of the Arkhangelsk Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs

The swift work of Turkmenistan's law enforcement system on the eve of the festivities demonstrates that in effect a decision on the "case" against the environmentalist has already been taken - action needs to be taken NOW to prevent this

Andrei Zatoka, a well-known environmentalist and public activist has been arrested accused of inflicting injuries on an unidentified individual which he denies. The Memorial Human Rights Centre states that this is not the first attempt by the Turkmenistan authorities to

New information shows that the attack on School No. 1 was not the forced response of a government desperate to save lives but, on the contrary, was the act of a regime ready to destroy them for political gain. It

The graffiti reading "No to sodomy!", as well as a nationalist symbol on the wall of the Pavlo Hudimov Art Centre by the arsonists who struck in the early hours of Wednesday morning demonstrates the same homophobic primitivism seen not

As well as the accounts of horror and foul collaboration, we remember also the 431 "Righteous of Babi Yar" who, since 1990 have been so recognized for hiding Jews from death. "This title was bestowed on all family members alive

The very idea that the authorities could build a hotel at Babi Yar, a place where tens of thousands of people were murdered can arouse only sick outrage - and the urgent demand that the information be checked. There were

In this book of short stories by the Russian political prisoner Igor Sutyagin, he writes: for the sake of all those who are imprisoned in the cases at present (and there are already many of us, alas), please be with

Instead of the culmination of the Nuremberg process and the triumphant renewal of justice, we again have a show trial which elicits a worried feeling that the organizers want an easy symbol and myth, while both they and the public

On 16 September 2009 - the ninth anniversary of Georgy Gongadze's disappearance, a memorial gathering will be held at 19.00 on Maidan Nezalezhnosti [Independence Square

The mystery surrounding the terrorist acts of 1999 and subsequent years, the accumulation of official propaganda and lies, and especially the sinister "training exercises" in Ryazan have to a considerable extent fuelled versions which are difficult to refute asserting the

Words glorifying Stalin have recently been placed in the vestibule of the metro station "Kurskaya Circle Line". Please add your voice of protest against this profound insult to the dictator's victims and their relatives, and demonstration of a highly disturbing

The article "Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power," by Scott Anderson investigates the terrorist acts in Russia at the end of the 1990s and is based on an interview with the former political prisoner and lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, who once

On 24 June 2009 the Ombudsperson presented parliament with a her "annual report", the fifth in 11 years, which uses the results of monitoring on human rights in 2006-2007

On the seventieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, interpretation of this and other facts by Russia's "History Commission" and how Russian history textbooks are to ensure "correct thinking"

The German and Soviet invasion of Poland was a prelude to a destructive war and the communist enslavement of Eastern Europe, 140 German intellectuals write in a declaration. 'We thus respond to those in Russia who are trying to defend

Andriy Yurash from Lviv University was commenting in the wake of a clear statement from the Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal who believes the Church should become involved and guide believers on who to vote for

With Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, beside him, President Medvedev in effect broke off relations with Ukraine's pro-Western leadership and signalled the Kremlin's intention to meddle in Ukraine's presidential elections. Ms Merkel's response was silence

In Russia self-censorship has become a matter of survival (Christopher Walker, WSJ)

Politicians and public officials, including the Human Rights Ombudsperson, are hurtling to defend "traditional values", although in no hurry to define, or at very least itemize such values. Under the present regime in the RF, the Russian Orthodox Church of