Veteran human rights campaigner Lena SANNIKOVA will speak at Pushkin House, London, on Tuesday, 14 May, at 7 pm about political prisoners in Putin's Russia and the Soviet Union and the many other opponents and victims of both regimes Elena Sannikova at the Sakharov Centre (May 2008) ♦ Over the past ten years, the level … Continue reading Moral resistance, then & now (Tuesday 14 May 2019)
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“The freight and the groove” (2000)
Prisoners of an old regime ♣ Marjorie Farquharson ♣ (July 2000) When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in previous decades seemed to be merely a dry-run. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939-1993) became Georgia’s first freely-elected President after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a mandate … Continue reading “The freight and the groove” (2000)
News in brief, August 1969 (9.10)
«No 9 : 31 August 1969» [1] On 26 August Anatoly Marchenko was sentenced under Article 190 of the Russian Criminal Code to a new term of imprisonment: two years. The trial took place in the settlement of Nyrob, in the Perm Region, within the camp zone. The witnesses consisted of prisoners convicted for serious … Continue reading News in brief, August 1969 (9.10)
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