VOICE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

BY: Anna Malinovskaya Three pieces of legislation infringing on human rights marked the first few months of Putin’s presidency and attracted fierce criticism from leading human rights activists. On June 9, 2012, changes to the federal law on assembly, rally, demonstration, and picketing came into force. They were initiated by the “United Russia” party and […]

By: Anna Malinovskaya A recent series of articles on corruption in Russia’s education system has attracted my attention. Most of the articles try to estimate the bribes annual turnover or quote officials from the Ministry of Education on the measures they take to combat corruption. For example, according to the Russian online newspaper Nezavisimaya (“Independent”), […]

  By: Anna Malinovskaya Russian newspaper Sobesednik has called Russia’s recent parliament elections “the dirtiest in Russia’s history.” German media company Deutsche Welle released an article titled “Independent observers: these are the dirtiest elections over the last decade.” Independent observers from Deutsche Welle, registered many violations during the elections of December 4th. One of such […]

RUSSIA.— Gadzhimurat Kamalov, one of Russia’s leading investigative journalists has been shot dead in Russia’s North Caucasus region. Kamalov was the  founder of Chernovik, a newspaper well known for its investigation into government corruption. Authorities say Kamalov was shot eight times by an unidentified gunman as he was leaving his office at Chernovik in the capital […]