Journalist and activist Grigory Okhotin explains what happened to civil liberties in Russia over two decades under Putin Evgeny Feldman In 2011, after grossly falsified parliamentary elections triggered mass protests and a wave of political arrests in Russia, journalist Grigory Okhotin and software engineer Daniil Beilinson began publishing data about nationwide political persecutions.

The co-founder of the OVD-INFO Grigory Vyotin tells in detail how we came to what we came to Evgeny Feldman Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the discussion of two topics has not stopped - the Kremlin’s motives and the reasons why the Russians (at least a significant part of them) are not refused to support the authorities. For what reasons, a mass anti -war protest movement has not yet arisen? Are citizens capable of resistance? This question has faded into the background.

The human rights project " OTD-Info " will continue its work. The co -founder of the project Grigory Okhotin stated this after blocking the OVDINFO.org website. Grigory Okhotin Ovdinfo.org owner, co-founder of the OVD-Info project - We will continue our work. We can still be read on social networks. Even if all our social networks are blocked (Yandex has already deleted the OVD-Info website from the search results-approx.

I have a problem: I'm an optimist. For six years now I have been trying to tell the city and the world about the amazing and good things that are happening to Russian civil society. It turns out bad. For a small but fundamental reason: by all accounts, there is simply no civil society in Russia. And not only civil society, and not only society: we also have no private property, no institutions, education, medicine, fair trial - nothing. Never was and never will be.

In Russia, people are often detained at protests, especially unsanctioned ones. And even your compliance with the laws does not guarantee that they will be observed in relation to you. There are many known cases where people were not just detained, but arrested and sentenced to real terms on absurd charges.

The independent media project OVD-Info, which monitors politically motivated detentions, has prepared a report titled "The Man from the Paddy Wagon". From it, in particular, it follows that during the “year of protest” in Moscow and the Moscow region, 5,169 people were detained for political reasons. OVD-Info statistics is primarily an indicator of the level of repression.

Grigory Okhotin Illustration of Sergey Elkin From the moment of Sunday “elections”, both events and moods in society have developed so rapidly that it seemed absolutely superfluous to fix your understanding of the situation - the score went to the clock, and not to the cycle of preparing the material. There was an unusually a lot of simple journalistic work, there was simply no time to be distracted by the speakers.

From the editorial office. In the Central House of Sciences from 11 to 14 June, the fifth time will be held a unique book festival. The latest writers, still unknown authors, well -known names, luxurious programs for children and film amateurs, the music program of the Stepnoy Wolf Award and much more, together with the book fair, all this wealth is waiting for Muscovites and non -wisely from a long cultural use of the artist’s central house on the Crimean shaft.

Grigory Okhotin The resignation of the government Yulia Tymoshenko and the chairman of the National Security and Defense Council Petro Poroshenko was perceived by all analysts as the beginning of the parliamentary election campaign. However, the events that preceded the President’s decision, and the dual power of the resignation show that the campaign began for a long time, and the meaning of the event is deeper.

Grigory Okhotin A small Western Ukrainian town, beautiful and a little mysterious. I am sitting in the very center, in a pizzeria. I have ten days of well -deserved vacation, I do not read newspapers and almost do not know that at the same time terrible terrorist attacks are taking place in London. Rather, I heard, of course, but I don’t want to think about it - I have a vacation, mountains, fresh air.

Grigory Okhotin “Not the Maidan, but the Maidan. Dytyachny,” I sent SMS to my Kyiv friend. And the truth is a picket near the philistine court in support of the arrested Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, somewhat reminiscent of Kyiv events. Not meaning, not by the result, and of course not by the number of people, but exclusively by drive and enthusiasm. This was probably the most fun and interesting rally for all the years of Putin's rule. There was little people in truth, 900 people from the strength.

Grigory Okhotin April air, wonderful weather and beer on the boulevard - this is great. But, alas, spring joys are not for everyone. In Russia there is a huge layer of the population, for which the first of April is not a day of fun and jokes, but the beginning of a call. Spring is Valocordin with valerian for millions of parents, raids and service to the Motherland - for their children.

Grigory Okhotin The government finally decided: the army will be reformed as the generals wanted to slowly transfer the combat -ready units to the contract, but to leave the rest as it was. By and large, this means one - military reform, after the reform of the housing and communal services, will simply not be carried out. It is also significant that the government allocated money under the reform in General, as much as the real reform was estimated by Boris Nemtsov-90 billion rubles.

Grigory Okhotin Real Robin Hood in the eyes of the common people and the star of the television of the last month - the General Prosecutor's Office - decided to put things in order yesterday in her own house. After the “planned” verification of the activities of the Moscow prosecutor's office, the board of the Prosecutor General’s Office fired the first deputy prosecutor of Moscow Yuri Sinelshchikov - for the “systematic improper performance of official duties”.

Grigory Okhotin Yesterday, the Moscow City Court listened to the appeal of lawyers Alexei Pichugin, the head of the Yukos economic security department, to the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on his arrest - the defenders sought a change in the preventive measure. The case of Pichugin has no legal relation to the oil company itself, but in public perception (and in the information presentation of security forces) - was the first in the whole series of raids of the Prosecutor General.