Rights in Russia

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Natalia Taubina, director of the Moscow-based Public Verdict Foundation (pictured left). Public Verdict is one of the leading human rights organis...

16 Mar 202048min

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Tatyana and Nikolai Shchur. Tatyana and Nikolai are human rights activists from the city of Snezhinsk in Chelyabinsk region. Tatyana and Nikolai b...

8 Mar 202058min

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin are joined by Nadia Kutepova, a human rights activist from the closed city of Ozersk in Chelyabinsk region. Nadia was director of the human rights organisat...

2 Mar 202053min

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin are joined by Yury Dzhibladze, director of the Centre for Development of Democracy and Human Rights, based in Moscow. Yury has worked on human rights, democ...

23 Feb 202055min

This week Sergei Nikitin is on vacation and Simon Cosgrove is joined by Vyacheslav Bakhmin, co-chair of both the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Andrei Sakharov Centre in Moscow, and a well-known expert...

16 Feb 202044min

This week Sergei Nikitin and Simon Cosgrove are joined by Aleksei Sokolov, head of the human rights organisation Pravovaya osnova, based in Ekaterinburg in Sverdlovsk region. A summary of the week's e...

9 Feb 202054min

This week Sergei Nikitin and Simon Cosgrove are joined by Jens Siegert, blogger, journalist and expert on civil society in Russia. The first part is an interview with Jens; in the second part Simon an...

3 Feb 20200s

Sergei Nikitin and Simon Cosgrove discuss events of the past week in Russia, a summary of which can be found here.

26 Jan 202028min