Жириновский ударил митингующего в Москве на митинге (Moscow) – Police arbitrarily detained hundreds of peaceful protesters, including older peopl...
![Governments Pressure Russia to Act on Chechnya Abuses](https://en.msa-it.org/wp-content/themes/genesis-child/dist/images/lazy-group.png)
Fifteen governments in Europe and North America have taken a rare but important step to press Russia to end serious human rights violations and ab...
![Russia: Chechen Leader Threatens Human Rights Defenders](https://en.msa-it.org/wp-content/themes/genesis-child/dist/images/lazy-group.png)
(Moscow) – Russian President Vladimir Putin should condemn recent statements by Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s leader, threatening human rights defend...
![Online Jokes Are No Laughing Matter in Russia](https://en.msa-it.org/wp-content/themes/genesis-child/dist/images/lazy-group.png)
Russian authorities have registered 762 “extremist crimes” so far this year, many of them consisting of social media posts. In some cases, the authori...
![Germany: Put Rights on Agenda for Putin Meeting](https://en.msa-it.org/wp-content/themes/genesis-child/dist/images/lazy-group.png)
(Berlin) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel should raise critical human rights issues when she meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Meseb...
![A torture scandal makes Russia pay attention](https://en.msa-it.org/wp-content/themes/genesis-child/dist/images/lazy-group.png)
Last month, a gruesome torture scandal broke out in Russia — one that finally means the authorities cannot continue to ignore the gravity of the p...
![Russia: Activist Attacked in Dagestan Ongoing Violent Harassment of Leading Rights Group](https://en.msa-it.org/wp-content/themes/genesis-child/dist/images/lazy-group.png)
(Moscow) – An unidentified assailant viciously attacked a representative of Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights group, on March 28, 2018, Human Ri...