INVESTORS from Japan and the USA are eyeing the oil and gas fields off Sakhalin’s east coast and squaring up … More
Tag: Russia*
On the rack over torture (2001)
MOSCOW – Russia’s first chicken came home to roost at the European Court of Human Rights in late November, when … More
Leonard Ternovsky, 1933-2006
“A word already spoken, lives on”, Academician Andrei Sakharov said from exile in the dark days of 1980. “The human … More
Tatyana Velikanova, 1932-2002
Tatyana Velikanova’s intelligent smiling face came out of the shadows only in 1979 when she was arrested for the most … More
Larisa Bogoraz (1929-2004)
Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … 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
Rough Justice: The law and human rights in the Russian Federation (2003)
Since its birth in 1991, the Russian Federation has introduced substantial reforms to its legal system. This report charts the … More
Remembering Marjorie
Irina SAFRONOVA. Marjorie and I met in 1991 in Moscow when Marjorie was setting up an Amnesty office there. For … More
The Freight and the Groove (2000)
When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in … More
Marjorie 