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A night at The Human Library

May 22, 2012 Patrick Sewell
In the wake of a legislative attack on the LGBT community in a number of Russian cities, “The Human Library,” an innovative project designed to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding, opened its doors in Moscow

Magnitsky for Jackson-Vanik: A fair trade?

April 27, 2012 Eugene Ivanov
More and more it is becoming clear that for the Jackson-Vanik amendment to be lifted, something must be put in its place to remind Russia that the U.S. will never see it as an equal partner. Many see the Magnitsky Bill as a viable replacement

Mayoral race results in hunger strike

April 12, 2012 Alexander Kilyakov
The opposition in Russia continues its crusade for free and fair elections. Its latest high-profile action is a hunger strike in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan

Outlawing homosexuality

March 14, 2012 Russia Beyond the Headlines
The local parliament in St. Petersburg recently adopted a controversial law imposing large fines (up to $34,000 for organizations) for the promotion of homosexuality and pedophilia among minors. What do the experts think?

From angry voters to sexual minorities

March 13, 2012 Elena Novosyolova
Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin chose a symbolic moment, the day of the Russian presidential election, to publish his annual report on human rights in the Russian Federation

An Islamic town of Hope and Control

February 24, 2012 Judith Matloff
Shattered cement and ghostly streets in the Chechen city of Grozny have been replaced by glitzy shops, soccer stadiums and reduced violence

“I write now with more of an edge“

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
A rare interview with Oleg Kashin

For Russia’s journalists, often in peril, small ripples of change

July 25, 2011 Veronika Dorman
Freedom of the press in Russia: Is the situation improving?

Russia can’t be manipulated through external pressure

July 21, 2011 Nikolay N. Petro, valdaiclub.com
Nikolay N. Petro: "Efforts from outside Russia to punish its government officials in the Magnitsky case are seriously misguided"

Rumblings of political activism among Russia's bikers

July 11, 2011 Alex Chachkevitch, the Moscow Times
Bikers, who say they get the short end of the stick on the road, raised their voices when one of their own was seriously injured in a traffic accident

Inside Russia, new light shines on Magnitsky case

July 11, 2011 Vladimir Ruvinsky
Investigators, prison doctors, prosecutors and judges are responsible for the death of the Hermitage Capital fund lawyer, the presidential council on human rights stated

The Nenets herders, last nomads of the north

June 29, 2011 Anna Nemtsova, special to Russia Beyond the Headlines
As an energy company transforms the tundra, the Nenets see an end to their way of life

Sakharov’s widow a dissident in her own right

June 21, 2011 Andrei Kozenko, Kommersant
Yelena Bonner, Feb. 15, 1923-Jun. 18, 2011

Moscow court rules against Kadyrov in defamation case

June 15, 2011 RIA Novosti
Memorial leader wins surprise verdict in case involving the Chechen president

“Who knows where I will be soon”

May 20, 2011 Vladimir Ruvinsky, Galina Masterova
Presidential commission concludes that security service officers fabricated Magnitsky charges

State takes caring for native populations to extremes

May 17, 2011 Igor Naidenov, Russkiy Reporter
The air ambulance service provided to nomads in Russia’s tundra shows the extremes to which the state goes in its support of native populations

Moscow court sentences Markelov murderer to life

May 6, 2011 RIA Novosti
Ultranationalists also ordered to pay damages in death of human rights lawyer and journalist

Magnitsky cleared in state-ordered check

April 28, 2011 Alexandra Odynova, the Moscow Times
An independent commission carrying out a Kremlin-ordered inquiry into the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has found that he was illegally jailed and deprived of medical care

Moscow allows first ever gay parade

April 27, 2011 RIA Novosti
The Moscow city authorities gave official permission on Tuesday to hold the first ever gay pride march in the capital

Reforming Russia from within

April 5, 2011 Vyacheslav Kozlov, Moskovskie Novosti
The Presidential Human Rights Council is at work on a plan to change the way Russians see themselves
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