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Pressure on Russia’s civil society continues and hardest hit are the environmental organizations.
April 24, 2017
The recent lawsuit by the Murmansk chief of police is only the last of many attempts to influence our editorial policy, regional news agency Flashnord says.
April 19, 2017
He "disorganized the colony's work", a local court rules.
March 22, 2017
The Karelian historian and human rights leader will have to spend more weeks behind bars.
March 21, 2017
It is a violation of the European Human Rights Convention and we have reported it to the Council of Europe, the Norwegian Union of Journalists says in a letter sent to the Russian Embassy in Oslo.
March 15, 2017
Thomas Nilsen is on a Russian so-called «stop-list» of individuals denied entry to the country, the Russian Embassy in Oslo confirms. A series of reports about Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and his controversial visit to Svalbard might have been what triggered the reaction.
March 11, 2017
The Federal Security Service says he poses a threat to Russian national security and bars him entry to the country for the next five years.
March 09, 2017
No, Ria Novosti, we have never pointed the finger of blame at Ukraine as the source of a January radiation leak.
March 09, 2017
And lost. Newspaper Vesti Karelia will not have to remove critical stories about the Petrozavodsk infrastructure object.
March 06, 2017
The activist who reported grave cases of torture in a Karelian prison has been released following a decision by the Russian Supreme Court.
February 23, 2017
There is a conflict between Mokhnatkin and the prison guards, lawyer Sergey Andropov told «7x7».
February 17, 2017
Members of the Russian Human Rights Council pay visit to the White Sea-Baltic Canal and Sandarmokh ­– places of execution and mass burial of victims of the Great Terror of the 1930s.
February 14, 2017
Activists in Karelia demand the release of Yury Dmitriev, the imprisoned regional leader of human rights organization Memorial.
January 31, 2017
A small group of activists assembled to commemorate the 2009 killing of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. They were not allowed to stand long by Murmansk police.
January 19, 2017
«We won’t throw away our very important work over such small change,» says Aleksandr Nikitin, Chairman of ERC Bellona.
January 17, 2017
The Karelian daily Pripolyarie is only one of several newspapers which did not make it into the new year.
January 10, 2017
Nadezhda Gongeleva looses her battle for the top job in newspaper Prizyv.
January 04, 2017
The detention of Yuri Dmitriev might be a provocation meant to discredit Memorial, representatives of the organisation say.
December 19, 2016
Police searched Rodion Sulyandziga’s apartment Sunday morning and prevented him from leading a seminar.
December 11, 2016
Following reports about torture and harassment, the arrested activist is taken out of the Segezha prison colony No 7.
December 07, 2016
«We plan steps and measures», says top press spokesman Dmitry Peskov following the European Parliament’s resolution on anti-EU propaganda
December 01, 2016
A bill submitted to the State Duma proposes to increase federal funding of regional news makers. Legislators fear a mass closure of newspapers.
November 22, 2016
Russia’s only independent pollster insists it is not engaged in political activity.
November 18, 2016
The meddling of Russian authorities in Norwegian musician Moddi’s concerts in northern Norway does not pose a threat to cross-border cultural cooperation, says Luba Kuzovnikova, leader of curator group Pikene på Broen.
November 17, 2016
“Our goal was to avoid consequences for the orchestra and for Norwegian-Russian cultural relations,” Russia’s Consulate General says.
November 16, 2016

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