Moscow authorities must guarantee the safety of Podrabinek and his family and take appropriate law enforcement action against those responsible for this harassment. In a democratic country, no journalist should have to go into hiding because of his work.”

Aleksandr Podrabinek, a Russian journalist and human rights defender, says he fears for his life and has gone into hiding after angering a nationalist pro-Kremlin youth group by writing an article criticizing Russia’s Soviet past

Russia has ignored a series of judgments by the European Court of Human Rights on Chechnya, fueling unchecked violence in the North Caucasus, Human Rights Watch said in a report just released

The European Court of Human Rights found violations of the right to life, the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment, the right to liberty and security, and the right to an effective remedy.

The Head of Memorial, Oleg Orlov, has said that they could lodge a law suit against Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov over statements the latter made about Natalya Estemirova

In this book of short stories by the Russian political prisoner Igor Sutiagin, 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 us – and don’t be silent. Do not be silent!”

In cases involving disappearances in Chechnya and a killing in Ingushetia, the European Court of Human Rights found, among others, violations of the right to life and that the authorities’ treatment of the victims’ families constituted inhuman treatment

UHHRU interviews with human rights defenders from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Georgia

The court ruling sought by the Novorossiysk Prosecutor’s Office would be the first case where a human rights organization was prohibited as extremist.

The Pact between Stalin and Hitler and the subsequent events – the invasion of Poland, first by the Wehrmacht and then by the Red Army – are among the most shameful pages of Europe’s history.

It is 10 years since, on 16 September 1999, opposition politician Viktor Honchar and his friend Anatoly Krasovsky were abducted in Minsk and never seen again

It is a sad irony: While the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia itself is relapsing to some of its Soviet ways. In fact, for journalists, Russia is a more dangerous place now than it was during the Cold War

Journalists have been silenced for covering Chechnya and its neighboring republics, Dagestan and Ingushetia. Opaque investigations into the killings have fed deep scepticism

On the basis of this official assessment, the Prosecutor has sent an application to the Oktyabrsky District Court to have the Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee declared an extremist organization and dissolved

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 fuelled versions difficult to refute asserting the role of the security service in those events.

Please add your voice of protest against the recent placing of words glorifying Stalin in a Moscow metro station. This is a profound insult to all his victims and their relatives and part of a dangerous trend

In Dagestan, as throughout the Northern Caucuses, civilians are dying. A system of violence has developed, inextricably linked with torture, abductions, illegal prisoners and extra-judicial executions

Human Rights Watch calls on the Russian authorities to take urgent steps to ensure the safety of activists from the human rights group Memorial and investigate suspicious activities that may threaten their safety

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

According to the lawyer representing Chechnya’s President Ramsan Kadyrov, the police investigation section has refused to initiate a criminal investigation against the Head of the Memorial Board Oleg Orlov for "slander"