New crackdown on ‘undesirable’ foreign organizations becomes law with Putin’s signature
byTensions between Russia and the West reached a higher pitch over the weekend when President Vladimir Putin signed into law a vice-like new crackdown…
Human Rights
Russian Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky in Coma at German Clinic
byRussian pro-democracy activists and BBC’s Russian service report that 72-year-old veteran Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky is in an artificial coma in a private German …
Bill Browder on Sergei Magnitksy in Toronto
byAnti-Corruption campaigner, investor and author of New York Times best seller, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight…
Sofi Oksanen in Toronto: How History Is Falsified – Deportations in the Politics of Russia and the Soviet Union
bySofi Oksanen’s speech at the Toronto Conference on Repressions and Human Rights: Commemorating the 1949 Baltic Deportations. From an early age I wanted to…
Russian environmental group continues battle to clear its name under ‘foreign agent’ law
byST. PETERSBURG – Ecodefense, the first Russian environmental group designated a “foreign agent” by the Justice Ministry, continued its court battle to appeal the…
The slow, imperceptible shifts of life behind bars for a Russian environmental activist
byCharles Diggs of environmental NGO Bellona visits Russian environmental activist, Yevgeny Vitishko in a Russian prison colony. SADOVAYA PRISON COLONY, Sadovaya, Russia – The…
Interview with “In The Crosswinds” Director Martti Helde
byMartti Helde’s historical film “In The Crosswinds” is the third Estonian production ever to be selected to the program of the Toronto International Film…
Kremlin’s Manipulation of International Law and Interpol
byDuring this past July, the image of an empty cage in a Moscow courtroom filled the airwaves as the Kremlin concluded the trial of…
The Heroes of Our Time
byWhen philosopher Hannah Arendt talked about heroes, she meant not so much warriors or statesmen as brave ordinary people who resisted the Eichmannian temptation…