Vladimir Osechkin, 30, has become one of Russia's most successful freedom of expression advocates. The former businessman fell foul of Moscow's...
Vladimir Osechkin: Fighting for free expression in Russia’s prisons
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CATEGORY: Russia
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...
The corrosive evil of a forgotten war
Anna Politkovskaya talks to Rohan Jayasekera of Index on Censorship