Controversy about human rights activists and the topic of security in the magazine "Emergency Reserve"

In the forthcoming issue N45 of the magazine "Inviolable Reserve" there will be a thematic block dedicated to the place of the human rights movement in the topic of social security. The issue has not yet been released, but the articles are already available on the journal's website .

The block was initiated (see introduction ) by Alexander Verkhovsky's article "Russian Human Rights Defenders and the Security Threat" (note that the article was completed six months ago). It discusses, in particular, “the position of human rights activists in relation to various antisocial and antistate groups, in particular, to the National Bolsheviks and radical Islamists discussed in this article. Now active protection against unlawful persecution is combined with reservations that are barely noticeable to society about disagreement with their such a practice is not only incomprehensible to the majority, but in fact it is completely unbalanced .

The remaining articles of the block are only partly a reaction to Verkhovsky's article and are of independent interest:

• Sergei Smirnov. "Human rights and security: a delicate balance"

• Denis Dragunsky. "Great human rights sophism"

• Leonid Reznichenko. "To Europe for rights and obligations?"

• Alexander Cherkasov. ""From a human point of view, based on life experience ..." Terror and counter-terror as a "necessary evil""

• Timur Aliev. "The Russian human rights movement will be saved by internal reformation"

• Lev Ponomarev. "Well, you yourself understand, or Uncompromising human rights activists, state security and a global anti-terrorist operation"

• Nikolay Mitrokhin. "Non-Islamic Extremism in Modern Russia"