One day in the broadcasting life of Rossia-1: "Certain themes and moods ran through the entire day: Russia is an oasis of calm good governance in a world of chaos. Fascism is on the march in the world and Russia must be vigilant. The motif of "Europe in flames" plays out repeatedly through the day.

Meanwhile pro-Russian protesters in Kerch cite Ukrainian law rather than repressive Russian restrictions in order to hold a demonstration “in support of Russia”

Exactly one year since the adoption of the foreign agents law which Amnesty International says is choking independent NGOs, ruling party MPs want to equate media with foreign funding to “foreign agents”

President Vladimir Putin signed the legislation on November 3, requiring "close relatives and acquaintances" of those who commit acts of "terrorism" to pay damages -- both material and moral -- resulting from those acts

On 30 October, Remembrance Day for the Victims of Political Repression, Memorial made public a list of 70 political prisoners in Russia today

A Moscow court has found Mikhail Kosenko guilty of involvement in the supposed disturbances during an anti-Putin demonstration in May 2012 and ordered that he be placed in a psychiatric hospital. The diagnosis of “sluggish schizophrenia” was commonly used during the days of Soviet punitive psychiatry

Ales Bialiatski, President of Viasna Human Rights Center and Vice President of FIDH, was sentenced to 4 and a half years of detention in severe regime in August 2011 for his human rights activities.

331 people, over half of them chldren died during the storming of the school with tanks and heavy artillery by Russian federal forces. Although in theory the investigation is continuing, there is no evidence that the authorities want to find out the truth. Unlike the families of those whose lives were cut short that day.

It’s been a tough year for Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina and for their children, forcibly parted from their mothers

Leonid Razvozzhaev, abducted from the centre of Kyiv while applying for asylum in Ukraine, will still have been held in custody on politically motivated charges almost exactly a year later

Father Pavel ((Adelgeim), well-known theologian, publicist and Soviet dissident has been murdered in Pskov. Over recent years the 75-year-old had been critical of the situation in the Russian Orthodox Church

Two years ago today, on 4 August 2011, Ales Bialiatski, Head of the Viasna Human Rights Centre and Vice-Director of the International Federation for Human Rights, was arrested and subsequently sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment in Belarus

On 4 August 2013, on the second anniversary of arrest of well-known human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, International Day of Solidarity with the Civil Society of Belaruswill be held for the second time

Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to five years in jail for theft and embezzlement. Navalny has always insisted the trial was politically motivated, due to his opposition to President Vladimir Putin.

Two St. Petersburg courts have refused to classify the Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center (ADC Memorial) as a “foreign agent” under recent legislation

A Moscow court has “convicted” Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion three years after the lawyer died in custody. The international campaign to impose sanctions against those implicated in his death continues regardless of such grotesque counter-moves

Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev was killed on 9 July in Dagestan, less than 2 years after the murder of his colleague. Both were “were from among the courageous few who reported on injustice, human rights violations by members of security forces, and corruption in this troubled North Caucasus republic”

Memorial condemns the trial now underway in Moscow as fundamentally flawed and reminiscent of the worst Soviet traditions, including attempts to find a “conspiracy” where there was none

Late Friday evening Russian police took the offices of the human rights organization For Human Rights in the centre of Moscow by storm, bringing Lev Ponomaryov and others out by force

On Tuesday within hours of each other, the State Duma’s lower house of Parliament passed bills to criminalize blasphemy and outlaw activism by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals and their supporters.