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Farewell to the “Reset”

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Farewell to the “Reset”

Details: 13 August 2013; Vladimir Kara-Murza

The op-ed by IMR Senior Policy Advisor Vladimir Kara-Murza in the New Times magazine on the cancellation of the Obama-Putin summit.

Pavel Khodorkovsky: “The situation with Sergei Guriev makes it clear that another case against my father is being prepared.”

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Pavel Khodorkovsky: “The situation with Sergei Guriev makes it clear that another case against my father is being prepared.”

Details: 09 June 2013

The president of the Institute of Modern Russia, Pavel Khodorkovsky, son of the best-known Russian political prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky, gave an exclusive interview to RFI on the eve of his father's birthday, in which he talked about the possibility of a third case being brought against his father, the degeneration of the Russian judicial system, and why he thinks that human rights issues should be raised at the European level.

Kara-Murza: Political Emigration is, at its Essence, Involuntary

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Kara-Murza: Political Emigration is, at its Essence, Involuntary

Details: 30 May 2013; Vladimir Kara-Murza

It is not surprising that Russian political emigration is growing. According to Vladimir Kara-Murza, senior policy advisor at the Institute of Modern Russia, "It is little wonder that this is happening now, when Russia’s everyday reality no longer encompasses just fraudulent elections and media censorship, but also 1930s-style interrogations, political show trials, and state-driven paranoia about 'foreign agents.'”

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Observers Lose Their Voice

Details: 13 May 2013

The Golos (“Voice”) Association for the defense of the rights of voters will probably soon be closed.

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Relations with Russia: Can the United States turn a blind eye to human rights violations?

Details: 04 March 2013

Russian opposition members and human rights activists met last Monday with representatives of the U.S. Congress and the European Union.

A Fashionable Verdict

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A Fashionable Verdict

Details: 16 October 2011; Nadezhda Pomerantseva

Rumor has it that the trials of the participants in the YUKOS affair are going to resume in the fall. A former lawyer with the law office ALM Feldmans, Pavel Ivlev, who is part of this case, spoke to Bolshoi Gorod about the moment he fled Russia, who else was arrested because of his move, and what he intends to change in Russia, in order to return.

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