May 30, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian Supreme Court upholds travel ban on Norwegian newspaper editor A Norwegian newspaper editor has lost a Kafkaesque case before Russia’s Supreme Court where he sought to challenge a travel…
May 29, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law St Petersburg Economic Forum panelists trash Russian environmental movement Discussions at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum included a wide-ranging bash of environmentalism in Russia, with Sergei Ivanov, president…
March 19, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law As Putin begins fourth term, Russia’s nonprofit sector continues to erode The results of yesterday’s presidential election in Russia surprised exactly no one and Vladimir Putin has swept to power once…
February 14, 2018 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia’s most enthusiastic environmental group shuts down over ‘foreign agent’ accusation Russia’s foreign agent law has ground another environmental group out of existence as Akrhangelsk’s youth group Aetas – which led…
January 31, 2018 Arctic, Russian human rights issues Norway says radiation levels around sunken Russian sub safe for now A new report published by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority has said that radiation levels near a Russian nuclear submarine…