Moscow Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/moscow/ An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world. Fri, 29 May 2020 20:06:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/concernedscientists.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-64x64%40512px.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Moscow Archives - Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/tag/moscow/ 32 32 59910430 Scientists Protest Against Kremlin Threat to Research https://concernedscientists.org/2015/06/scientists-protest-against-kremlin-threat-to-research/ Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:44:45 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=4331 Nick Holdsworth, University World News, 06/11 — Russian scientists and intellectuals mounted a rare public protest on 6 June to voice their fears that research and freedom of enquiry are under threat from the Kremlin. Several thousand protesters gathered in Moscow on Saturday 6 June to highlight growing red tape and President Vladimir Putin’s fear-driven agenda […]

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]]> 4331 CCS Protests the Beating of Activist and Physicist in Moscow https://concernedscientists.org/2013/07/ccs-protest-the-beating-of-prominent-physicist-and-human-rights-activist-during-lease-dispute/ Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:23:19 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=2668 Dr. Lev Ponomarev, a prominent Russian physicist and human rights activist, was violently evicted  from the offices of his organization, “For Human Rights,” during a dispute over the lease. Ponomarev and five others were treated so roughly by security guards hired by the city of Moscow that they had to be treated at a first […]

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]]> 2668 CCS Urges Putin to Release Student Activist https://concernedscientists.org/2013/06/ccs-urges-putin-to-release-student-activist/ Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:49:26 +0000 http://concernedscientists.org/?p=2596 CCS wrote a letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin in support of Yaroslav Belousov, a political science student who was arrested in June of 2012. His trial started recently in Moscow. According to press reports, Belusov was arrested while participating in an authorized protest demonstration. He has been in jail for a year and could […]

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