Human rights activism in Russia can be a dangerous ordeal for those involved in it. How do these dedicated people nonetheless manage to advance human rights in Russia? Here an interview with three human rights activists.
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Freek van der Vet
January 8, 2013
Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions Again, Samutsevich’s testimony evokes a similarity between the Pussy Riot case and women […]
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Nadezda Petrusenko
December 20, 2012
Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions The story of innocence and corruption, bad motherhood and bad influences presented in […]
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Irina Sandomirskaja
December 20, 2012
Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions It is important in this connection to mention the activities of Voina (The […]
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Nadezda Petrusenko
December 20, 2012
Comments on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions “Feminism is not crime but…” [1] The court cannot agree to the arguments […]
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Irina Sandomirskaja
December 20, 2012
Comment written jointly with Irina Sandomirskaja on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions However, in the post-modern Russian society, radical protest […]
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Yulia Gradskova
December 20, 2012
Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions Pussy Riot awakened public memory to a recollection of an alternative history that […]
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Irina Sandomirskaja
December 20, 2012
Comment on Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions It is not for the first time that feminism in Russia became an […]
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Irina Sandomirskaja
December 20, 2012
Comment to Pussy Riot: Reflections on Receptions It was at the beginning of the 1990s, Russia’a first post-soviet years. We […]
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Irina Sandomirskaja
December 20, 2012
Orphanage No. 7 in Taganrog was one of the former Soviet orphanages that came into contact with the new charity early on, in the form of summer vacation exchanges with Swedish host families. The reality Swedish visitors encountered in Taganrog and elsewhere, however, was not always of the dreaded kind — a destitute shelter for desperate children abandoned by the world — although such a description was at times apt, especially in reference to homes for the mentally disabled. What they found instead were tangible traces and elements of entirely different plans and ambitions.
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Håkan Blomqvist
June 27, 2012