All Posts Tagged With: "Lyudmila Alexeyeva"
100 Detained, Many Beaten in Moscow ‘Strategy 31’ Rally
Scores of opposition activists have been detained at the latest Strategy 31 rally in defense of the right to free assembly in Russia.
Jul 31, 2010 | Continued
Pro-Kremlin Youth Equate Rights Leaders with Nazis
An outdoor installation set up by a pro-Kremlin youth group depicting Russian civil rights leaders as Nazis has drawn derision and outrage from within Russian civil society.
Jul 28, 2010 | Continued
‘Strategy 31’ Organizers Appear to Give Up Limonov (updated)
Russian opposition leaders have appeared to agree to exclude Eduard Limonov from the organizational group of the Strategy 31 freedom of assembly rallies – falling in line with a Kremlin proposal earlier this month.
Jul 25, 2010 | Continued
Moscow City Court Rules in Favor of ‘Strategy 31’
The Moscow City Court has made a decisive ruling in favor of the opposition’s Strategy 31 rally campaign, annulling an earlier decision that denied the illegality of Moscow’s refusal to sanction the rallies.
Jul 20, 2010 | Continued
Kremlin Proposes to Allow ‘Strategy 31’ if Opposition Splits
Russian opposition leaders have shot down a Kremlin proposal that would give official sanction to the Strategy 31 rallies if they excluded Eduard Limonov.
Jul 14, 2010 | Continued
Strategy 31 Organizers Turn Down Gov’t Proposal
A government proposal “to save face” that would allow Strategy 31 rallies to be held at two alternating locations in Moscow has been turned down by opposition organizers.
Jun 16, 2010 | Continued
Accidental ‘Strategy 31’ Participant Sentenced to 2.5 Years Confinement
A Russian man who tried to defend an elderly woman whom he saw being manhandled by police at an opposition rally has been sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony.
Jun 9, 2010 | Continued
Ekho Moskvy Editor Proposes Political Rally Ban
Ekho Moskvy radio Editor-in-Chief Aleksei Venediktov says that both pro- and anti-government events should be banned from being held on Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square for a year.
Jun 8, 2010 | Continued
Police Detain 170 at Freedom of Assembly Rally
Police detained as many as 170 protesters in Moscow during a rally in defense of the constitutional right to the freedom of assembly, many of whom were beaten and at least two of whom were hospitalized.
Jun 1, 2010 | Continued
Moscow Refuses to Sanction ‘Strategy 31’ Rally, Again
The Moscow city authorities have refused to sanction an opposition rally in defense of the constitutional right to the freedom of assembly for the ninth time in a row.
May 19, 2010 | Continued