Activists in Prague on January 27 organized a picket at the German Embassy to express criticism of German policy against Russia. "We express our disagreement with the Northern Stream - 2" gas pipeline "and with the actions of Germany, which complicate the supply of weapons under the threat of Russian aggression to Ukraine," the message widespread on the eve of the promotion says. Activists symbolically defeated the pipe fragment with the inscription "Nord Stream 2" with hammers.

The United States in Moscow answers about security guarantees transferred by the Russian side on the eve of the time, they proposed to agree on the restriction of nuclear weapons. This may be the reason for the restoration of the agreement on the elimination of medium and shorter missiles, the action of which ceased in 2019. This was written by The New York Times, citing sources familiar with the documents transmitted by Moscow.

Protest Protest in Minsk, August 30, 2020 The number of Belarusian political prisoners exceeded a thousand. This was reported by the human rights center "Vesna". In the updated list of human rights activists, nine people convicted of insulting Alexander Lukashenko or other representatives of the authorities. Three were convicted under an article on fraction of enmity. Human rights defenders called for stopping the persecution of all political prisoners and free them.

The courts in Russia began to recover compensation in favor of relatives of people who died from coronavirus

Evgenia Hasis and Nikita Tikhonov (archive photo) The Supreme Court repeatedly recognized the legal sentence to the nationalists Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Hasis, convicted of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Anastasia Baburova. This follows from the definition of the collegium of the Supreme Court announced on Thursday, Interfax reports.

Member of the Casta group Vladi (Vladislav Leshkevich) and the “Committee against torture” issued a joint clip, an article that is not ”about violence against detainees and convicts. In it, people who were tortured in the police or a correctional colony starred. The YouTube channel of the human rights organization notes that in Russian legislation there is still no separate article on torture, although the country has thousands of victims of torture.

On January 20, in Nizhny Novgorod, armed people in masks and civilian clothing, who introduced themselves to the police from Chechnya, broke home to the parents of human rights activist Abubakar Yangulbaev. They dragged his mother Zarem Musaev by force from the apartment and taken to Grozny.

Making a person to the list of Rosfinmonitoring gives the authorities the right to block all bank accounts and any operations. Who is included in this list and how did it turn out to be nearly 12 thousand people?

Advisor to the President of Russia and Chairman of the Council of Human Rights Valery Fadeev (Archive photo) The adviser to the President of Russia and the chairman of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeev stated that the detention and delivery of Zarema Musaeva, the wife of the former Chechen judge, Sayed Yangulbaev, took place in accordance with the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This was reported on the website of the HRC.

A package of European Union sanctions in the event of an armed invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine may include measures against the Northern Stream 2 gas pipeline. This was stated on Thursday, speaking in the Bundestag, the German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbok. She did not give details.

At the Sundance Independent Film Festival, the premiere of a documentary about Alexei Navalny took place (an interview with director Daniel Roer can be read here ). The film, like many other work at the festival, was available online. That's what eyes, for example, was the pro -Kremlin spectators.

Disputes around the possible invasion of Russia to Ukraine. The ban on mining and turnover in Russia cryptocurrencies.

A group of Estonian deputies nominated the Memorial (society and PCs are recognized as “foreign agents”) to the Nobel Prize of the world. This was reported by the human rights center with reference to the source in the Estonian parliament.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow