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Moscow Helsinki Group

Type: Organization

Name: Moscow Helsinki Group

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Council of Europe

European Rights Watchdog to Expand in Russia

WikipediaThorbjorn Jagland The Council of Europe, the continent's oldest human rights organization, has announced an agreement to upgrade its Russian office, a sign that Russia takes the 47-member group seriously, a spokesman said, at a time when the ... [Published Moscow Times - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Thorbjørn Jagland, Russia, Freedom of Expression, Council of Europe, LGBT

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Thorbjørn Jagland

CoE SG Jagland urges Duma to amend law on foreign agents

MOSCOW. May 21 (Interfax) - The adoption of the law which rates foreign-funded nongovernmental organizations as foreign agents was a mistake which needs to be corrected, said Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland.It was a mistake, he said, ... [Published Interfax - May 21 2013]

Entities: Thorbjørn Jagland, Non-Governmental Organization, Duma

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Moscow slaps new ban on gay rights rally

(MENAFN - AFP) Moscow city authorities on Wednesday again turned down demands for a gay rights rally in the Russian capital later this month, ... [Published MENAFN - May 15 2013]

Entities: Gay Rights, Moscow, Homophobia, Nikolai Alexeyev, Homosexuality

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

John Kerry

Kerry avoids criticism of Russia on rights record

By Thomas Grove and Arshad MohammedMOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Russian human rights activists on Wednesday but disappointed many by avoiding any harsh criticism of the Kremlin's record on civil liberties and democracy.A day ... [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - May 08 2013]

Entities: John Kerry, Thomas Grove, Russia

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

White House may endorse revised FBI’s proposal expanding surveillance laws on online activity

US surveillance laws may soon be reviewed so that it would be easier for the government to wiretap people who communicate using the Internet, the New York Times has reported yesterday referring to officials familiar with the Obama administration’s pl ... [Published Voice of Russia - May 08 2013]

Entities: FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, Surveillance, White House

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 5 reports

Vladimir Putin

Kerry meets Russian rights activists amid crackdown

:42 Posted by 0MOSCOW: US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian rights activists on Wednesday as he faced a tough balancing act between trying to find common ground with the Kremlin on Syria and signalling support for the country's embattled ... [Published Business Recorder - May 08 2013]

Entities: John Kerry, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Moscow

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Russia labels three more NGOs as ‘foreign agents’ - report

Story: "Foreign agent" label for NGOs in RussiaContext© RIA Novosti, Ruslan KrivobokTags: NGO, The Prosecutor General's Office, RussiaMOSCOW, May 8 (RAPSI) - The Prosecutor General’s Office has branded three more non-profit organizations (NGOs) operating ... [Published RAPSI - May 08 2013]

Entities: Russia, National Endowment for Democracy, Human Rights, Moscow

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Russian rights groups to meet with Kerry in Moscow on May 8

MOSCOW. May 6 (Interfax) - Russian human rights activists expect to discuss the ongoing inspections of Russian non-governmental organizations (NGO) by prosecution agencies at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Moscow.Moscow Helsinki ... [Published Interfax - May 06 2013]

Entities: John Kerry, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Moscow

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Russian NGOs expect warnings from prosecutors forcing them to be registered as foreign agents

MOSCOW. April 27 (Interfax) - The sweeping inspections of the leading nongovernmental organizations (NGO) operating in Russia by prosecutors are unlawful, Moscow Helsinki Group Chair Lyudmila Alexeyeva said."These inspections are unlawful, they had no ... [Published Interfax - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Chalturin (Russia), Moscow Helsinki Group, Yury Chaika

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

Russian court fines NGO under 'foreign agent' law

Russian human rights advocate Lev Ponomarev (left) and Moscow Helsinki Group president Lyudmila Alexeyeva (right) Human rights advocates wait for the start of the Golos (Voice) trial in a Moscow courthouse, on April 25, 2013. The court slapped a $10,000 ... [Published MSN Philippines - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Moscow Helsinki Group, Human Rights, Advocate

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Russia Election Watchdog Fined, Fears Closure

MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti/RAPSI) – Russia's Golos Association, an independent election monitoring NGO, will probably have to close, its director said after the organization was fined 300,000 rubles (around $10,000) for failing to register as a "foreign ... [Published RIA Novosti - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Closure, Elections, Russia

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 2 reports

Russian Group Fears Fine After Talk With Americans

MOSCOW Russian prosecutors have opened a legal case against a nongovernmental organization in a city outside Moscow for failing to register as a foreign agent, after the group participated in a round table with representatives of the United States Embassy. ... [Published New York Times - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Kostroma (Russia), Howard Solomon, A ROUND, Moscow

Quotes

...also criticized the so-called "foreign agents" law and called on Russia to respect the right of the LGBT community to hold public demonstrations. "It goes without saying that authorities have an obligation to protect LGBT people who express their views and demonstrate. This is a fundamental principle in the European Convention on Human Rights" Jagland said. He urged the State Duma not to pass a bill banning "homosexual propaganda...

European Rights Watchdog to Expand in Russia [Published Moscow Times - 3 hours ago]

"Their portrayal as foreign agents arouses absolutely inappropriate suspicions about all nongovernmental organizations, as well as the misconception that election monitoring is an anti-Russian type of activities, he said."

CoE SG Jagland urges Duma to amend law on foreign agents [Published Interfax - May 21 2013]

"We have prepared answers to all requests submitted by organisers and we will not accept them" Interfax news agency quoted city hall official Alexei Mayorov as saying

Moscow slaps new ban on gay rights rally [Published MENAFN - May 15 2013]

"Russia is enormously cooperative, has been and is today, with respect to North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan."

Kerry meets Russian rights activists amid crackdown [Published Business Recorder - May 08 2013]

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European Rights Watchdog to Expand in Russia [Published Moscow Times - 3 hours ago]
CoE SG Jagland urges Duma to amend law on forei... [Published Interfax - May 21 2013]
Moscow slaps new ban on gay rights rally [Published MENAFN - May 15 2013]
Kerry meets Russian rights activists amid crack... [Published Business Recorder - May 08 2013]
Kerry avoids criticism of Russia on rights record [Published Yahoo! UK and Ireland - May 08 2013]
Kerry Meets Russian Rights Activists amid Crack... [Published Naharnet - May 08 2013]
U.S. Secretary Of State Meets Russian Rights Ac... [Published Radio Free Europe - May 08 2013]
Cleveland kidnapping: neighbors say police igno... [Published Voice of Russia - May 08 2013]
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Russian rights activists, US secretary of state... [Published Voice of Russia - May 08 2013]
Rights Activists Complaining to Kerry About Cra... [Published Moscow Times - May 08 2013]
Russia labels three more NGOs as ‘foreign agent... [Published RAPSI - May 08 2013]
Russian rights groups to meet with Kerry in Mos... [Published Interfax - May 06 2013]
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Russian NGOs expect warnings from prosecutors f... [Published Interfax - Apr 27 2013]
Russia Election Watchdog Fined, Fears Closure [Published RIA Novosti - Apr 25 2013]
Russian court fines NGO under 'foreign agent' law [Published MSN Philippines - Apr 25 2013]
Rights defenders demand to stop pressure on "Go... [Published Caucasian Knot - Apr 20 2013]
Oppositionist action held without accidents in ... [Published Itar Tass - Apr 17 2013]
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Russian Group Fears Fine After Talk With Americans [Published New York Times - Apr 17 2013]
Russia Prosecuting Kostroma Center Under ‘Forei... [Published New York Times - Apr 17 2013]
Russian Group Says It’s Being Prosecuted for Co... [Published New York Times - Apr 17 2013]
Russia Raids NGOs, Rights Groups [Published Impunity Watch - Mar 29 2013]
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Russian NGOs: the funding realities [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Feb 15 2013]
Russian NGOs: who is to fund them? [Published open Democracy News Analysis - - Feb 13 2013]
The Kremlin's new Anti-Americanism [Published Eastern approaches - The Economist - Jan 30 2013]
Putin's repressive regime has frozen Russia's h... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Dec 21 2012]
Russian President Putin advocates ban on headsc... [Published World Socialist Web Site - Oct 24 2012]

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RT @IFAXnews: Moscow Helsinki Group head says c... [Published BBCDanielS Daniel Sandford Twitter - Apr 17 2013] RT @IFAXnews: Moscow Helsinki Group head says case against Navalny political http://t.co/OVFsh8cTDP #Russia #interfax #news ...
Russia Raids NGOs, Rights Groups [Published Impunity Watch - Mar 29 2013] By Madeline Schiesser Impunity Watch Reporter, Europe MOSCOW, Russia – The Justice Ministry’s inspections of Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) this week have been compared to the Great Terror during the Soviet government’s campaigns in the ...
Germans push back against Putin’s demonization ... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Mar 28 2013] Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of top-quality punditry from around the globe. Today: Vladimir Putin is stepping up his campaign against “foreign agents” — a loaded term in Russia, where it conjures up images of spies ...
The Kremlin's new Anti-Americanism [Published Eastern approaches - The Economist - Jan 30 2013] IF one were to judge by the recent behavior of Russian lawmakers, the country is under assault. Not by foreign armies—though that threat, too, always looms large in the rhetoric of Russia’s political leaders—but by hostile and unfamiliar values, ...
Putin's repressive regime has frozen Russia's h... [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Dec 21 2012] The Russian president's pugilistic attitude to his critics shows why the country can't move on with him at the helm One year on from the mass demonstrations , Russia is a changed place. Vladimir Putin has chosen repression over reform and it shows ...