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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 2
How Russia’s Rosfinmonitoring Terrorism and Extremism Watchlist Works. Live Data
The “Watchlist of Terrorists and Extremists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring was conceived as a tool for combating the financing of terrorism, but today it serves as important, albeit indirect, evidence of the scale of repressive practices in Russia. Each year, more and more people are added to the list on political...
“Cats are not the property of the institution”: How Gregory Winter rescued cats, was baptized, and found a son in the snow
“It’s a lot harder coming out of prison, than going in”
Repression in Russia in 2025. Overview by OVD-Info
The state actively uses extremist and terrorist articles for politically motivated prosecutions and to construct an ideological framework.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under Political Pressure
Submission for the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights regarding Russia submitted by OVD‑Info8 August 2025IntroductionThis submission by OVD-Info to the 78th Session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) assesses the Russian Federation’s compliance with the International Covenant on...
Extraordinary fascism: how the russian state is pursuing the rehabilitation of nazism
The Russian authorities have repeatedly justified the war against Ukraine, it with World War II, and their actions with the participation of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition. The State has appropriated the right to the past and is actively rewriting history. During the state’s , the authorities began to...
The charges of ‘public calls for terrorist activities’ and ‘organisation of extremist activity’ replacing those of ‘fakes.’
While 2025 is far from reaching its end, law enforcement officers have already managed to launch a number of high-profile criminal cases, for instance, against the employees of the ‘Individuum’ publishing house. Amid decreasing numbers of ‘fake news’ and ‘discreditation of the army’ charges we have assembled and analysed every...