Parliamentary elections were held in Russia yesterday (4 December). Several independent media websites were hacked on election day; journalists and...
Hacked websites and fraud mark Russia’s parliamentary elections
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CATEGORY: Russia
Election monitor targeted in run up to Russian elections
Rights activists have said there has been an onslaught of freedom of expression violations in Russia as the country's 4 December parliamentary...
Russia: “Defamation suits a key factor in suppressing free speech as long as Vladimir Putin rules the country”
Earlier this month, Russia’s Department of Presidential Affairs won three defamation lawsuits against newspaper Novaya Gazeta in just one week. “The...
Defamation decriminalised in Russia
The Russian State Duma has decriminalised defamation, having passed amendments to the Criminal Code. There are two major legislative threats to...
Voice of Russia host fired after criticism of South Ossetia president
Russian journalist Maxim Shaligin, a presenter on pro-government radio station Voice of Russia has been fired for criticising the outgoing president...
NTV censorship strikes again
A scandal is flaring in Russia as two segments for popular NTV programme "Unreal Politics" were shot and then blocked by NTV's management. The first...
Vladimir Osechkin: Fighting for free expression in Russia’s prisons
Vladimir Osechkin, 30, has become one of Russia's most successful freedom of expression advocates. The former businessman fell foul of Moscow's...
Memory under siege
The raid on a leading historical research centre in St Petersburg is an attack on freedom of expression, writes historian Orlando Figes Yesterday,...
Russia: freedom of belief under threat
The gravest danger to religious freedom in Russia comes from the Kremlin’s approach to combating extremism, writes Geraldine Fagan of Forum 18 The...
Anna Politkovskaya : 1958-2006
Just before my last trip to Chechnya in mid-September my colleagues at Novaya gazeta began receiving threats and were told to pass on the message: I...