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A Newspaper ‘to Serve Society, Not the State’: Russia’s Novaya Gazeta Wins IPI Pioneer AwardDate:30/04/2009 Novaya Gazeta, the crusading Moscow newspaper that has paid a deadly price for its reporting during a period when the Kremlin has sought to rein in independent media, has been named winner of the International Press Institute's 2009 Free Media Pioneer Award...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
North Caucasus: Editor’s Killer is Released, as Conditions for Journalists’ Safety DeteriorateDate:11/03/2010 ARTICLE 19 is deeply concerned about recent developments in the case of the killing of website editor Magomed Yevloyev in Ingushetia, and about the impact this will have for the already dire situation for media freedom in the North Caucasus region...
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Thursday, 11 March 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Anatomy of InjusticeDate:15/09/2009 'It is a sad irony: While the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia itself is relapsing to some of its Soviet ways...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Artists and writers support Russian exhibition organizers charged with ‘inciting hatred’Date:27/07/2009 Yuri Samodurov, a former Moscow museum director, and the art curator Andrei Yerofeev, are due in court on Friday, facing charges of inciting hatred and offending human dignity - that could see them jailed for up to five years - after organizing a Moscow exhibition called Forbidden Art 2006...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RUSSIA: As newspaper designer dies, conflicting accounts emerge Date:02/04/2009 Police in the Moscow suburb of Khimki must conduct a thorough investigation into the sudden death of newspaper designer Sergei Protazanov, the circumstances of which are in dispute, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Chechen human rights advocate murderedDate:16/07/2009 ARTICLE 19 is shocked and deeply saddened by the killing on 15 July 2009 of Natalia Estemirova, a Chechen human rights activist and representative of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Chechen capital Grozny...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Drop Criminal Libel Charges Against ActivistDate:28/10/2009 Russian authorities should immediately drop criminal libel charges against Oleg Orlov, the prominent activist who heads Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Extradited Chechen Terrorism Suspect Freed Date:03/09/2009 Murat Gasayev, an ethnic Chechen accused of participation in an attack on government buildings in Ingushetia in June 2004, was released by Russian authorities without charge on August 28, 2009, after 10 months in pretrial detention...
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Thursday, 3 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Journalist convicted of defaming prison service by reporting detainee torture claimsDate:20/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist Elena Maglevannaya’s conviction by a court in the southern city of Volgograd of defaming the prison service in articles about torture in Russian prisons that she wrote for the website Vestnikcivitas...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Killing of NGO Activist Silences Another Independent Voice in ChechnyaDate:12/08/2009 Less than a month after the abduction and killing of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, another non-governmental activist and her husband have been abducted and killed in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny...
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Wednesday, 12 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Leading Chechnya rights activist murderedDate:17/07/2009 Natalia Estemirova, a leading human rights defender in Chechnya, was found shot dead in Ingushetia on July 15, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today...
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Friday, 17 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RUSSIA: Medvedev calls for media freedomDate:06/11/2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for an end to media censorship Wednesday, during his first state of the nation address since his election last March...
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Thursday, 6 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: New delay in Politkovskaya case Date:06/08/2009 A retrial over the killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been adjourned, following a complaint by her relatives...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RUSSIA: Politkovskaya Trial Doors ClosedDate:18/11/2008 The trial of three men charged with involvement in the murder of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya will now be closed to the public, the judge says...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Report on seven Russian regions: as many reasons for hope as for concernDate:14/09/2009 'Reporters without Borders releases a report today on the freedom of the press and media in seven of the Russian Federation’s regions...
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Monday, 14 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Russia must end impunity for murder of human rights activistsDate:17/08/2009 The bodies of human rights activist Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik (Umar) Dzhabrailov, were found in the boot of a car early Tuesday morning in the Chechen capital Grozny...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: Shock at death of newspaper editor who was badly beaten two months agoDate:30/06/2009 Reporters Without Borders is deeply saddened to learn that newspaper editor Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, who spent several days in a coma after being attacked and beaten outside his home on 29 April, died today in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don...
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia: What can be expected from retrial of those accused in Politkovskaya murder?Date:05/08/2009 The retrial of three men who allegedly helped murder Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya opens before a military court tomorrow in Moscow...
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia arrests deal a blow to free speech: U.S.Date:02/02/2010 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U...
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Tuesday, 2 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
South Caucasus: Continued Violence Against Journalists Symptomatic of Ongoing Repression in the RegionDate:18/05/2009 ARTICLE 19 is becoming increasingly concerned that acts of violence against journalists in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are on the rise...
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Monday, 18 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Moscow marches - but not for longDate:25/10/2010 No sooner had the placards and protestors headed home from Pushkinskaya Ploshchad than it emerged that Moscow’s brief autumn of discontent could soon fall victim to the winter chill...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Moscow OKs One Freedom-Of-Assembly Protest, Bans Another Date:29/03/2011 Moscow city authorities today officially approved a planned rally by a group of human rights and opposition activists in support of freedom of assembly, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia convicts art experts over exhibitionDate:12/07/2010 MOSCOW ; A Russian court on Monday convicted the organisers of a provocative 2007 art exhibition of inciting hatred, fining them up to 6, 500 dollars in a case fiercely criticised by rights activists...
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Monday, 12 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia tackled at U.N. over racism and media killingsDate:05/02/2009 Russia must do more to stop violence against minorities, torture by the police and army, murders of journalists and, recently, the killing of a human rights lawyer, delegates to a UN rights body said on Wednesday...
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Thursday, 5 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russia urged to find journalist's killersDate:23/02/2009 Russia came under international pressure Friday to find the killers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya after four men charged in connection with her murder were acquitted by a Moscow court...
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Monday, 23 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian billionaire drops libel case against EconomistDate:30/07/2009 A secretive Russian billionaire has abandoned his libel case against the Economist magazine after it suggested he had benefited from his close relationship with Vladimir Putin, Russia's former president turned prime minister...
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Thursday, 30 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian court blocks YouTubeDate:29/07/2010 A court in Russia has blocked access to YouTube after the website was accused of hosting extremist propaganda...
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Thursday, 29 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian Court Blocks YouTubeDate:30/07/2010 …
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Friday, 30 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian minister not welcome in UK after Guardian reporter expelled – MPDate:09/02/2011 The government has been asked to revoke an invitation to the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, to visit the UK next week until Russia explains why it has expelled the Guardian journalist Luke Harding...
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Wednesday, 9 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian newspaper founder arrested, criminally chargedDate:02/04/2009 Police in the western city of Kaliningrad should drop trumped-up bribery charges against Arseny Makhlov, the founder of the independent weekly Dvornik, and allow him to work without fear of harassment, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RUSSIA: Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations Date:14/10/2008 The Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations is works in the territority of the Russia Federations and in the CIA republics, to monitor violations of journalists' and media rights...
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Letter to Russia: The murder of Stanislav Markelov and of Anastasia BaburovaDate:02/04/2009 A letter from the IBAHRI Co-Chairs concerning the murder of lawyer, Stanislav Markelov and journalist, Anastasia Baburova...
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Thursday, 2 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Romanenko and others v. Russia Date:12/11/2009 The Russian court found a violation of freedom of expression where a newspaper had been convicted for publishing a statement that criticized public bodies...
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Thursday, 12 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Prubova v RussiaDate:05/02/2010 The applicant was a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper D.S.P...
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Friday, 5 February 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Berezovsky v Russian Television [2010] EWHC 476 (QB)Date:17/08/2010 The claimant brought an action against the defendants in relation to defamatory comments made against him relating to his alleged involvement in the death of Alexander Litvinenko in London, which were expressed by way of a broadcast by the first defendant...
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Alekseyev v RussiaDate:25/10/2010 This case concerned complaints by a Russian gay-right activist about repeated rejections by the Moscow authorities to his request to organise gay-pride parades...
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Monday, 25 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Russian FederationDate:15/07/2010 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Russia...
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Thursday, 15 July 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Novaya Gazeta v Voronezhe v. RussiaDate:07/04/2011 The applicant is the editorial board of the Novaya Gazeta v Voronezhe newspaper, a limited liability company under Russian law registered in Voronezh (Russia)...
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Thursday, 7 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Kudeshkina v. RussiaDate:05/05/2011 The applicant, Olga Kudeshkina, is a Russian national who was born in 1951 and lives in Moscow...
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Thursday, 5 May 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Grinberg v RussiaDate:19/05/2011 In 2002 the Guberniya newspaper published a piece written and signed by the applicant...
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Thursday, 19 May 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Grinberg v. RussiaDate:09/06/2011 The applicant published an article critical of the newly-elected Governor's treatment of journalists...
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Thursday, 9 June 2011Last Modified:
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Chechen Human Rights Lawyer Threatened Date: 02 August 2011 "Threats by the police against a lawyer in Chechnya highlight the need for Russian authorities to end the harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders in the republic...
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Tuesday, 2 August 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
PROTECTION OF JOURNALISTS FROM VIOLENCE CommDH/IssuePaper(2011)3 Issue Papers are commissioned and published by the Commissioner for Human Rights, to contribute to debate and reflection on important current human rights issues. Many of them also include Recommendations by the Commissioner for addressing the concerns identified...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Putin Proposes Creating a Free Speech Space in MoscowDate: 15 February 2012 "Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow should have a site similar to London's Hyde Park where people are always free to express their views...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 17 February 2012
MEPs adopt resolution condemning Russian gay rights lawsDate: 21 February 2012 "MEPs have condemned Russia's legislation on gay rights which "discriminates against the freedom of expression"...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012Last Modified:
Friday, 24 February 2012
Moscow police must investigate attacks on journalistsNew York, March 7, 2012--A reporter covering a post-election protest in Moscow suffered a concussion after being assaulted by police, the most serious of at least three attacks on journalists reporting on demonstrations on Monday...
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012Last Modified:
Thursday, 8 March 2012