(By Marjorie Farquharson, The Ex-Moscow Information Officer) Introduction: The idea of setting up an AI information office arose out of…
Recruitment for the Moscow Information officer (March 1992)
By Marjorie Farquharson (Ex-Moscow Information Officer) Press work is a natural and important part of the Moscow job, as are…
A brief note from Moscow (August 1991)
I’m definitely not into heroics, but see some real advantages in sitting tight for the time being. The balance of…
Suffering Russia and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1997)
By Marjorie Farquharson I recently spent time in a Moscow hospital. The medicine was plentiful, the care round-the-clock, and as…
From Marjorie’s Diary (1984)
What one truly understands clearly articulates itself, and the words to say it come easily. * Sunday, 27 May 1984…
Marjorie
by Malcolm HASLETT (July 2020) I first met Marjorie in the early 1980s, when she was working for Amnesty –…
Publications, broadcasts, stories, journalism, translations, reviews
Human Rights “Briefing papers on human rights in the USSR”, published monthly in Philip Spender (ed.), Index on Censorship, UK…
In a World of Objects (1992)
In spring this year [1992] I returned from 15 months’ living in Moscow, where I set up the first office…
Remembering Marjorie
Irina SAFRONOVA. Marjorie and I met in 1991 in Moscow when Marjorie was setting up an Amnesty office there. For…
Marjorie Farquharson, 1953-2016
Guardian obituary (1 July 2016) Political scientist who worked tirelessly for human rights in Russia and around the world. Marjorie…
Moscow Diary (2018)
by Marjorie FARQUHARSON, 1991-1992 The diary Marjorie kept as she was establishing Amnesty International’s Office in Moscow, a unique venture…
Russian photos
In Moscow, at the dacha, teaching human rights …
At Marjorie’s funeral
Three Poems. “He who has mastered himself” (Lao Tzu) “On The 100th Anniversary Of Anna Akhmatova” (Joseph Brodsky) …
A remarkable person
By Ian MARTIN (2018) It was my privilege to work with a great group of committed people at the International…
The Freight and the Groove (2000)
When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years some spent as prisoners in previous decades…
From Marjorie’s Journal (1976)
I have been trying to make my notes as brief as possible for too long now, and so I shall…
The Ideology of Analytic Art and the Principle of Craftedness
by Pavel FILONOV (1883-1941) “Painting is the universally intelligible language of the artist.” A picture suggests a single conclusion, which…
Reflexions on the Tripartite
by Marjorie FARQUHARSON (1976) The 1976 Tripartite Conference was held in the Quaker Centre at Ben Lomond, Northern California. This…
Alexander Nekrich, “Rewriting History” (1980)
In 1965 a ten-volume edition of The History of the World, prepared by the Humanities Faculties of the Soviet Academy…
Igor Golomshtok, “Russian Unofficial Art, A-Ya” (1980 review)
Igor GOLOMSHTOK, Russian unofficial art A-Ya, Nos 1 and 2 (each 60 pp). Published by Igor Schelkovski, Chapelle de la…
Rukhnamania: Fantasies of a Dictator (2006)
An interview with Farid Tukhbatulin Following immense international pressure, Turkmen satirist Farid TUKHBATULIN was granted amnesty from three years in…
Wanted: workers for the new Ministry of Truth
by Boris KAGARLITSKY (1993) Boris Kagarlitsky is a writer and member of the Party of Labour in Russia. In 1982…
“The Killer” by Mikhail Bulgakov
Doctor Yashvin snorted and asked with a strangely twisted smile: May I tear a page off the calendar? It`s exactly…
The Caryatids Speak
by Marjorie FARQUHARSON (1980) The first feminist journal has appeared unofficially in the Soviet Union. It is called Zhenshchina i…
Marjorie 