Khrushchev in retirement

By Roy MEDVEDEV (1979) On 2 October 1964, shortly after his meeting with Sukarno, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev flew south for … More

Diary: After the Dictator

by Farid TUKHBATULLIN (2007) The inauguration of the new president, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, on 14 February this year excited the world … More

By Yelena RYABININA and Svetlana GANNUSHKINA, The Civic Assistance Committee (2005) In many Russian regions there is currently a concerted … More

By Alexei SIMONOV (2005) After a decade of freedom, the government has taken the national media firmly back under its … More

Human Rights “Briefing papers on human rights in the USSR”, published monthly in Philip Spender (ed.), Index on Censorship, UK … More

… I’m back at Amnesty for three days, writing a report of my time in Moscow. I’m struck by the … More

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON (2003) One year after Russia’s new Criminal Procedure Code came into force on 1 July 2002, the … More

(Translated by Marjorie FARQUHARSON) THE SEA The Holy Land in April in the days before Easter snakes and shimmers in … More

Some 6,500 children are in Scottish local authority care today – 20 of them babies – but the number of … More

INVESTORS from Japan and the USA are eyeing the oil and gas fields off Sakhalin’s east coast and squaring up … More

Valery Abramkin, who has died at 66, was a quiet and remarkably consistent person. In 1980 he went on a … More

Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ plays: neither comedy nor tragedy, but a meditation on power, that ends … More

MOSCOW – Russia’s first chicken came home to roost at the European Court of Human Rights in late November, when … More

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10 December nearly sixty years ago, and the European Human Rights … More

THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (A translation by Marjorie Farquharson) ACT ONE A room in the Provost’s house. Scene I The Provost, … More