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Pushkin Club and Rights in Russia hold discussion of trial of historian Yury Dmitriev [full version]

posted 21 Dec 2017, 09:54 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 21 Dec 2017, 09:54 ]

Discussion on the trial of Yury Dmitriev


On 19 December 2017 Pushkin Club and Rights in Russia held a joint event to discuss the trial of Yury Dmitriev, a Gulag researcher, who has been locating and exhuming the mass graves of Stalin's victims since 1980s. He was arrested on 13th December 2016 and remanded in custody on trumped-up charges. His trial started in June 2017 and is still going on. The Dmitriev affair was discussed by lawyers and human rights activists. The event was chaired by John Crowfoot, researcher and translator and a trustee of Rights in Russia, who has created the site https://dmitrievaffair.wordpress.comand speakers included Dr. Andrea Gullotta of Glasgow University, a historian and specialist on the Solovki Special Purpose Camp, who met and talked to Yury Dmitriev during his research trips to Karelia and the White Sea, and Bill Bowring, a practicing barrister and Professor of Law at Birkbeck College. 

Video by Sarah Hurst

Pushkin Club and Rights in Russia hold discussion of trial of historian Yury Dmitriev [excerpt]

posted 20 Dec 2017, 13:25 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 21 Dec 2017, 09:52 ]

The Trial of Yury Dmitriev


On 19 December 2017 Pushkin Club and Rights in Russia held a joint event to discuss the trial of Yury Dmitriev, a Gulag researcher, who has been locating and exhuming the mass graves of Stalin's victims since 1980s. He was arrested on 13th December 2016 and remanded in custody on trumped-up charges. His trial started in June 2017 and is still going on. The Dmitriev affair was discussed by lawyers and human rights activists. The event was chaired by John Crowfoot, researcher and translator and a trustee of Rights in Russia, who has created the site https://dmitrievaffair.wordpress.com, and speakers included Dr. Andrea Gullotta of Glasgow University, a historian and specialist on the Solovki Special Purpose Camp, who met and talked to Yury Dmitriev during his research trips to Karelia and the White Sea, and Bill Bowring, a practicing barrister and Professor of Law at Birkbeck College. 

Video by Sarah Hurst

Anastasia Zotova speaks at London's Pushkin House

posted 15 Jun 2017, 08:38 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 15 Jun 2017, 08:38 ]


On 20 April 2017 Russian human rights activist Anastasia Zotova spoke at London's Pushkin House at an event organized jointly by Rights in Russia and Index on Censorship. She was in the UK to represent her husband, released political prisoner Ildar Dadin, who was a finalist (and as it turned out a winning finalist) at the 2017 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards. Anastasia Zotova has done more than anyone in recent years to expose conditions in Russia’s large and often brutal penitentiary system.

Natalya Taubina: The future for human rights in Russia [in Russian]

posted 13 May 2017, 12:42 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 13 May 2017, 12:43 ]


Natalya Taubina: Rights of assembly, expression and association in today's Russia [in Russian]

posted 13 May 2017, 12:28 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 13 May 2017, 12:33 ]


Natalya Taubina: Historical perspectives on human rights in Russia [in Russian]

posted 13 May 2017, 12:06 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 13 May 2017, 12:07 ]


Our interview with Natalya Taubina, director of Public Verdict Foundation [in Russian]

posted 12 May 2017, 11:48 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 12 May 2017, 11:49 ]


Our interview with Natalya Taubina, director of Public Verdict Foundation, a prominent Moscow-based human rights NGO

posted 12 May 2017, 11:38 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 12 May 2017, 11:40 ]


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