Weekly Update No. 39

Rights in Russia: Week-ending 23 October 2015 [see also attachment] Rights in Russia: September 2015 [see also attachment]

Comment  Liudmila Alekseeva on World Food Day

Aleksei Simonov: "It's important to shout out loud enough that the emperor has no clothes, so that both emperor and crowd can hear"

HRO.org in English  Political prisoner Oleg Navalny describes conditions in prison punishment cell

Moscow State University researchers forced to obtain FSB approval for publications

Vera Vasilieva: Yandex against the bloggers?

Russian Research Centre for Human Rights designated as ‘foreign agent’

An exhibition ‘Remembering the victims of political repression’ opens in Perm

Remember the Date  26 October 2002: Tragic end to Dubrovka Theatre seige

Quote for the Day  Vyacheslav Shuper: "Many scientists in Russia don’t dare to speak openly"

Person of the Week  Person of the Week: Ekaterina Vologzheninova

Rights Group of the Week  Rights Group of the Week: Russian Research Centre for Human Rights

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Our thanks to this week’s translators: Detzi Chocieszynski, Frances Robson, Graham Jones, Jo Anston, Joanne Reynolds, Mary McAuley, Simon Cosgrove

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