Rights in Russia 12.12.16
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Weekly Update No. 43 (232) 12 December 2016
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Rights in Russia: Week-ending 9 December 2016 [see also attachment]
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Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: October 2016
Person of the Week
Person of the Week: Oksana Sevastidi
Rights Group of the Week
Rights Group of the Week: Team 29
Legal Case of the Week
Legal Case of the Week: Emir-Huseyn Kuku
Comment
Andrei Babushkin on Valery Borshchev: His Mark on History (LiveJournal)
HRO.org in English
Film director Aleksandr Sokurov on the fate of political prisoner Oleg Sentsov
Ever fewer Russians believe that the Russian Constitution protects their rights and freedoms
Members of the Human Rights Council meet with the President
Has the President finally seen what has happened to the judicial system in this country?
Russian authorities wage war in Syria but refuse asylum to Syrian refugees
Rights Groups in Russia
Memorial recognizes video-blogger Sokolovsky as a political prisoner
Legal Training Centre (St Petersburg): Legal Seminars in St Petersburg and Tver, 10-13 October 2016
Quote for the Day
Remember the Date
Remember the Date: 12 December 1993 - Russia adopts a new Constitution by referendum
Remember the Date: 11 December 1994 - the start of the First Chechen War
Remember the Date: 8 December 1991 - the end of the Soviet Union
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Our thanks to this week’s translators, including: Anna Bowles, Caroline Elkin, Elizabeth Teague, Frances Robson, Joanne Reynolds, Lindsay Munford, Marian Schwartz, Mary McAuley, Nathalie Corbett and Simon Cosgrove
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