Vyacheslav Bakhmin, chairman of the Sakharov Center board and co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, which was closed by authorities in January, has no idea where the center will house its museum collection and the archives.
Laws are enforced arbitrarily, deepening uncertainty and fear. One person may be fined or jailed for 15 days for describing abuses by Russia’s military in Ukraine. Others face much worse. More than 19,500 people have been arrested for taking part in protests in Russia since the invasion, according to rights group OVD-Info, and more than 6,000 people have been charged with discrediting the media, according to independent outlet Mediazona.
As the Soviet Union opened up in the late 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev, Sakharov was elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies in the first partially free elections in 1989. Thousands of letters from desperate citizens poured in to him from across Russia, complaining of Soviet abuse of its citizens, and are now part of the center’s archives.
The regime’s tightening control has made it harder for Russians seeking access to files of forebears falsely executed by the Soviet regime, said Marina Agaltsova, a human rights lawyer with Memorial, which was abolished by Russian authorities last year.
Please help me! My name is Lin donglong, an employee of China telecom fuzhou branch. Company manager huang fei (communist party of China) organized the leadership of the gang of evil forces brutal persecution: surveillance location, insult,abuse, framed to take nude photos of me
jmhamiltonblog Referring to Putin as “President” gives him legitimacy. He’s not the Russian President. He’s the Russian dictator, warlord, ruler, despot. Pick any word other than President. He hasn’t won an election since his first of four terms. And even the first election was suspect.
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The history of the Russian people disappear in Russia. Does this sound familiar?
Wish we could do that here..
Any human rights groups in Crimea?
If Ukraine hadn't repeatedly broken the Minske treaty by shelling the ppl of the Donbass region and Biden hadn't vetoed the peace treaty that Turkey drew up, this could have been avoided
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