Khrushchev in retirement

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

Diary: After the Dictator

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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