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Head of leading Russian university imprisoned for alleged embezzlement

December 14, 2021

Sergey Eduardovich Zuev, rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES), was arrested on November 9 and is now on trial for allegedly embezzling government funds. Scholars around the world suspect that the charges have been invented to punish MSSES for accepting foreign grants. ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Sergey Zuev

Russian Mathematics PhD student convicted of charges without evidence

November 21, 2021

Mathematics PhD student Azat Miftakhov has been detained since February 2019 for and recently convicted on charges of manufacture of explosives and breaking a political party window. These charges appear to be based on secret, unreliable witnesses and he has been subjected to torture. https://caseazatmiftakhov.org/2021/11/12/update-on-the-case-of-azat-miftakhov-on-november-12-2021/ ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Azat, Miftakhov

Russia forces Memorial human rights groups to close.

November 21, 2021

Russian human rights group International Memorial and its sister organization Human Rights Centre Memorial are being forced to close by Russian prosecutors for supposedly not labeling themselves “foreign agents”. They were founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and have been doing important work on preserving Russian historic documents and monitoring violations of human rights in ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Andrei Sakharov, Human Rights, Memorial Organization

Another Russian Researcher on Hypersonic Aircraft Arrested for Spying.

August 25, 2021

Dr. Alexander Leonidovich Kuranov, a prominent researcher in the field of hypersonic aircraft has been arrested and charged with treason. This has happened numerous times in the past few years in Russia in regard to those working in this field of study. There, has as yet, been no signs of treason. ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Alexander Leonidovich Kuranov

Russia, Again, Arrests Elderly Scientist for Allegedly Leaking Classified Information

August 25, 2021

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/russia-wages-a-paranoid-war-on-hypersonic-scientists Russia wages a paranoid war on hypersonics scientists by Eugene Chudnovsky | August 14, 2021 07:00 AM Alexander Kuranov, 73, has devoted his life to the study of hypersonic propulsion. His work involved the fundamental physics of plasma and material science, which used to be unclassified and ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Alexander Kuranov

Gifted Mathematician Sentenced to Six Years for Alleged Act of Vandalism

June 26, 2021

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Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Azat Miftakhov

Letter to President Putin from a Prominent Russian Human Rights Defender Who Worked Closely with Andrei Sakharov

June 16, 2021

The request to stop criminal prosecutions for non-violent actions, to release political prisoners!Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation on the eve ofthe Putin-Biden summit in Geneva on June 16June 10, 202To the President of the Russian FederationV.V. PUTINDear Vladimir Vladimirovich!Just now, on May 21 this year, the 100th anniversary of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was celebrated ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia

Wilson Center Issues Statement in Support of Russian Civil Rights Attorney, Ivan Pavlov, Who Was Recently Arrested

June 9, 2021

Pavlov has been temporarily released, but has been stripped of his right to defend political prisoners, and may soon become one. The Wilson Center strongly condemns the detention of the Russian lawyer and human rights defender Ivan Pavlov on April 30 and the subsequent raid on his offices. Mr. Pavlov has been a stalwart defender of human rights and the rule of law in Russia for decades. He is a ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Russia Tagged With: Ivan Pavlov

Student Journalists Arrested for Publishing Video In Support of Peaceful Rally

May 30, 2021

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Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Alla Gutnikova, Armen Aramyan, Journalists, Natalya Tyshkevich, student, Vladimir Metyolkin

Andrei Sakharov’s 100th Anniversary: Boris Altshuler, Human Rights Activist and Former Political Dissident, Who Worked Closely with Sakharov, Shares His Memories (From Altshuler’s Article):

May 23, 2021

The historic achievement of the Soviet human rights movement of the 1970's is that it managed to turn the attention of the world’s Big Politics to the suffering of individuals. The role of Andrei Sakharov was crucial in this. It was not by chance that in his Nobel Lecture (1975) he listed 127 names of Soviet prisoners of conscience and apologized to those he missed. And surely the pain for every ... Continue Reading>>

Filed Under: Russia Tagged With: Andrei Sakharov

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