An Experiment in Moscow (May1992)

(By Marjorie Farquharson, The Ex-Moscow Information Officer) Introduction: The idea of setting up an AI information office arose out of … More

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 … More

I’m definitely not into heroics, but see some real advantages in sitting tight for the time being. The balance of … More

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

I have been trying to make my notes as brief as possible for too long now, and so I shall … More

by Malcolm HASLETT (July 2020) I first met Marjorie in the early 1980s, when she was working for Amnesty – … More

by Marjorie FARQUHARSON (1976) The 1976 Tripartite Conference was held in the Quaker Centre at Ben Lomond, Northern California. This … More

by Boris KAGARLITSKY (1993) Boris Kagarlitsky is a writer and member of the Party of Labour in Russia. In 1982 … More

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

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

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

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