OPINION Reign of impunity. Torture and extrajudicial killings as Russia's new normal 15 April 2024 Alexander Cherkasov human rights activist Askhab Uspanov, a Russian national and native of Chechnya who was detained after the March 22 Crocus City Hall attack outside Moscow, was tortured to death at the police precinct where he had been taken. One of the suspects in the attack had his ear cut off by law enforcement officers.

Opinions Trying is happiness. Torture and extrajudicial executions in Russia: from concealment and impunity to normal 5 April 2024 Alexander Cherkasov Chairman of the International Human Rights Center "Memorial" The Chechen Askhab Upanov, detained after the terrorist attack in Crocus, was dusted in the ROVD to death, and another detained security forces cut off the ear. The propagandists on federal channels approved these methods.

POLITICS Cool heads, short memory: Why Putin and his fellow KGB officers avoided lustration and made successful careers Alexander Cherkasov 22 декабря 2022 Although Vladimir Putin's official biography paints a portrait of a heroic spy in East Germany, in reality his main tasks with the KGB related to political investigations, searches, and jailing dissidents in Leningrad.

Although Vladimir Putin's official biography paints a portrait of a heroic spy in East Germany, in reality his main tasks with the KGB related to political investigations, searches, and jailing dissidents in Leningrad. How is it that after the transition of power, Putin and his KGB colleagues not only stayed free, but made successful careers in the “new” democratic Russia of the 1990s?

Policy Cold head and short memory. Why Putin and his colleagues-glassist escaped lustration and made successful careers Alexander Cherkasov December 15, 2022 Although Putin’s official biography draws a portrait of the hero-reconnaissance in the GDR, in reality his main classes in the KGB were a political investigation, searches and detention of dissidents in Leningrad.

Today is some strange day. Unreal. The Nobel Prize of the World is awarded to Oslo. The award was awarded to Alesya Belyatsky, the leader of the Vasna, the leading Belarusian human rights organization. Ales was in prison, fifteen months were without any connection with relatives. In Belarus - real mass repressions. And this dictatorship would be impossible without the support of my country.

OPINION “Not every Reich is a thousand-year one.” Alexander Cherkasov on why it is important to prepare for prosecuting Russian war criminals 22 November 2022 Alexander Cherkasov human rights activist The Memorial Human Rights Center, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is closing down for good in Russia. The cassation court has upheld the decision to shut it down, following a court order for the confiscation of the Memorial building in Karetny Ryad Street.

Opinions "Not every Reich is millennia." Alexander Cherkasov about why it is important to prepare in advance for the persecution of Russian war criminals 18 Novmber 2022 Alexander Cherkasov Human rights activist The Memorial human rights center is finally closed in Russia: the Cassation Court upheld the decision on its liquidation, and earlier the court confiscated the building of the Memorial on the Barrow row.

Memory of a journalist and human rights activist Alexander Mnatsakanyan Alik Mnatsakanyan. Photo: Facebook From the editorial office On November 7, the famous photographer and human rights activist Alexander (Alik) Mnatsakanyan died in Moscow. In 1992, during the Ossetian-Ingush conflict, he took one of the most famous anti-war photographs: it has an inverted baby stroller on the backdrop of armored vehicles.

For a long time and a lot, to the place and not to place in Russia, they talked about the "new 37th year." But hardly anyone could imagine that the 37th would come by putting on the larva of the 41st.

Report of former employees of Memorial Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Alexey Nikolsky / Epa.eu In the five months that the war in Ukraine lasts, the world managed to find out and understand something. If you look and read the channel of Ramzan Kadyrov, then you know: in all the main directions, in the forefront there are Chechens who are sent and controlled by the “padishah” themselves. He leads his legions, like Julius Caesar in the Gallic War.

Political repressions in Russia as a necessary condition for aggression against Ukraine Photo: Gettyimages.com Alexander Cherkasov, member of the Council of the Center for Human Rights Protection Memorial, spoke at a conference in Paris, organized by the Mathematician Committee in support of Azat Miftakhov together with the Memorial. The report was devoted to the relationship of political repression within Russia and an aggressive war against Ukraine. “New newspaper.