November 7, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Two prominent rights groups liquidated by Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law In a recent clamp down on so-called “foreign agents,” Russian courts have disbanded two prominent decades old rights groups after…
June 25, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Activist from Ecodefense, under pressure from Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ law, flees to Germany The head of a Russian environmental organization has been forced to flee to Germany to avoid arrest on several charges…
June 12, 2019 Russian human rights issues Russia’s garbage protests raise central questions about the right to a clean environment A new spate of trash protests have rocked a small town in the Arkhangelsk region of northern Russia as some…
March 1, 2019 Access to information, Nikitin Case, Russian human rights issues From embattled beginnings, Bellona Murmansk marks its 25-year anniversary Twenty-five years ago, a small, youthful group of environmentalists in Murmansk was drawing the scrutiny of the Russian security services.…
February 20, 2019 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Moscow bans the Barents Observer from Russian Internet In a chilling broadside against the independent press, Moscow has blocked further publication of the Barents Observer, a Norwegian news…
