Overcoming Totalitarianism: An attempt to Identify the Terrain

Sergei AVERINTSEV (1937-2004) The challenge of how to “overcome” a totalitarian past should face every nation with experience of one … More

The Demise of the Russian President’s Pardons Commission (2002)

No heart is more merciful than the tsar’s, the old saying goes. Russian President Vladimir Putin stood that proverb on … More

Since its birth in 1991, the Russian Federation has introduced substantial reforms to its legal system. This report charts the … More

Then one night I was alone. All around was November blackness, the snow freaking down and shrouding the house, the … More

by Marjorie FARQUHARSON, 1991-1992 The diary Marjorie kept as she was establishing Amnesty International’s Office in Moscow, a unique venture … More

“Amnesty group arrives on unprecedented Soviet tour”, UPI 22 March 1989 “Tajikistan: Amnesty Report Attacks Cruel, Random Use Of Death … More

In Moscow, at the dacha, teaching human rights …

For over 25 years, Kronid Lyubarsky was one of the driving forces behind the human rights movement in Russia. His … More

The first time I saw him he was about twenty-four and I was eleven and studying at the gymnasium with … More

I recently spent time in a Moscow hospital. The medicine was plentiful, the care round-the-clock, and as a foreigner I … More

President Putin has hinted at an ‘asymmetrical’ response if the USA stations part of its Ballistic Missile Defence Network in … More

By Marjorie FARQUHARSON Well, I really liked Igor Anatolievich. He could read a cloud formation as clearly as the expression … More

When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years some spent as prisoners in previous decades … More