This book is the diary of Madina Elmurzaeva which she kept during military action in Grozny. It proved no easy matter for human rights activists to get it published.

For over half a century the truth about the Bykivnya Graves was concealed. It was only in 1991 that at the place of the burial a memorial stone was placed to the victims of the fascists. And only a few years after that was it written there that this is the last resting place of victims of political repression.

90-year-old Pinochet has been charged with the murder and abduction of people and use of torture in the secret prison “Villa Grimaldi” during the military dictatorship from 1973-1990

The author looks at how and why the “language issue” seems most burning to politicians, especially before elections, and why more attention is needed to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

The author looks at how and why the “language issue” seems most burning to politicians, especially before elections, and why more attention is needed to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Regardless of what we think of the charges themselves, forgetting that Zelenyak denies authorship does both him and the cause of justice a disservice

Aleksandr Abramovich received 15 days for unfurling a banner reading “Freedom for Kazulin and other Belarusian political prisoners!”

At a memorial evening three historical documents were presented about the victims of the GULAG, including one about children of those repressed who were also held in the camps

We pass on an Amnesty International appeal to all those concerned about freedom of expression on the Internet

Russian diplomats consider that the Ukrainian authorities are one-sided in their treatment of the events of the 1930s which, in their view, casts a shadow over Ukrainian – Russian relations

This decision follows the successful civil suit brought by Vinnytsa doctor Svitlana Poberezhets against the infringement of her constitutional right to privacy and confidentiality of medical records.

Over the last 6 weeks the journalist initiative “It’s better not to lie” has been proving its message with imagination and persuasive power.

Will the present Verkhovna Rada vote to recognize Holodomor as genocide, and what legal ramifications will such a law have? The BBC Ukrainian Service put these questions to the Director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Ihor Yukhnovsky:

STB’s Oleksiy Mustafin will run classes on the techniques for putting pressure on journalists and the methods for countering them. His experience on the side of the censors in 2004 can now be used in the fight against it, the journalist initiative is convinced.

This came after the European Court of Human Rights passed a ruling calling for the deportation procedure to be halted. On Thursday a cassation appeal was scheduled against the ruling of a Moscow court to deport Muminov

This was the beginning of a new page in Ukrainian journalism and of the “journalist revolution” which most of our colleagues throughout Ukraine joined.

The Chief Editor of the Internet publication “Kursiv” Vladimir Rakhmankov has been fined 20 thousand roubles for the publication on his site of his article “Putin as Russia’s phallic symbol”. The website has also effectively been closed down

A project has been launched aimed at increasing the influence of local territorial communities in Ukraine on decision making by state authorities and local administrations focusing particularly on public hearings

The court ruling to extradite him came despite a previous call for his extradition having been turned down, as well as the likelihood of his facing torture if returned

The Leninsky District Court in Minsk has found human rights activist Yekaterina Sadovskaya guilty of offending the honour and dignity of Aleksandr Lukashenko