November 4, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia names 100th ‘foreign agent’ in baffling new crackdown on NGOs and foreigners The Russian Ministry of Justice has named a total of 100 “foreign agents” NGOs as of this week, and has…
October 27, 2015 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Public hearings on Lepse dismantlement exclude Bellona Murmansk, a foremost authority on the radioactive ship MURMANSK – A public hearing last week in the militarily Murmansk Region closed nuclear city of Snezhnogorsk summed up the…
October 26, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, Sochi Olympic Games New appellate review should lead to freedom for Russia’s eco-prisoner Vitishko Yevgeny Vitishko, the environmentalist imprisoned in Russia for supposedly spray-painting an ecological message on a construction fence, will again go…
October 20, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law ‘Foreign agent’ law has put 33 percent of Russia’s NGOs out of business A recent report delivered to Russia’s Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Right says the number of NGOs operating…
October 19, 2015 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, Sochi Olympic Games Vitishko to get another shot at freedom, as treason rumors swirl around Russian NGOs In another small step toward freedom for imprisoned Russian environmentalist Yevgeny Vitishko, the Tambov Regional Penitentiary service has said it…
