Repression
Anti-fascist Activist Killed in Moscow
Fedor Filatov, a 26-year old activist in the Antifa movement, died in a Moscow hospital on October 10th from knife wounds sustained early that morning. Antifa believes the attack may have been committed by a skinhead extremist group.
Oct 15, 2008 | Continued
Khodorkovsky In Isolation Ward for Press Interview
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of the Yukos oil company, has been put into solitary confinement for 12 days, allegedly for speaking with Esquire author Boris Akunin.
Oct 10, 2008 | Continued
Russian Lawmakers Want Broader Powers for FSB
A group of Russian lawmakers are jumping at anti-corruption measures proposed by President Dmitri Medvedev to hand greater authority to the country’s security agencies, particularly the Federal Security Service (FSB).
Oct 8, 2008 | Continued
Ingushetia Descending into Civil War — Aushev
Present-day Ingushetia has “elements of a slow civil war,” according to former Ingush president Ruslan Aushev.
Sep 30, 2008 | Continued
Situation in Ingushetia Threatens All of Russia – Alexeyeva
Human right activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva speaks on the situation in Ingushetia, where disappearances and killings happen on a daily basis. The atmosphere of fear, she says, is comparable to Chechnya, and the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Sep 22, 2008 | Continued
Slain Opposition Leader Explains Ingushetiya.ru (video)
Magomed Yevloyev, an opposition leader from Ingushetia who was killed in police custody, presented at the FINROSFORUM 2008 in June, describing the immense pressure on independent news media in Russia. Translation and subtitles by theotherrussia.org.
Sep 5, 2008 | Continued
Russian Opposition Leader Killed In Police Custody
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Ingushetia, one of Russia’s southern republics, after an opposition leader and businessman was shot and killed while in police custody. In an open letter, Roza Malsagova, the editor-in-chief of the opposition internet newspaper Ingushetiya.ru, blames Ingushetia’s president Murat Zyazikov for Yevloyev’s death.
Sep 2, 2008 | Continued
Disabled Russian Journalist Jailed for Beating Cops
A physically handicapped journalist has been sentenced to 3.5 years behind bars for apparently beating two militsiya officers. The defendant claims there were gross violations in his trial.
Aug 28, 2008 | Continued
Online Newspaper Chief Flees Russia
The editor-in-chief of the independent Ingushetiya.ru online newspaper has fled Russia, and will seek political asylum in Europe, after persecution on the part of authorities.
Aug 5, 2008 | Continued
Russian Park Activist Placed in Mental Hospital
One of the leaders of a citizen’s movement working to save a local historic park has been arrested and put into a psychiatric hospital.
Aug 1, 2008 | Continued