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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 2
Repression in Russia in 2025. Overview by OVD-Info
The state actively uses extremist and terrorist articles for politically motivated prosecutions and to construct an ideological framework.
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under Political Pressure
Submission for the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights regarding Russia submitted by OVD‑Info8 August 2025IntroductionThis submission by OVD-Info to the 78th Session of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) assesses the Russian Federation’s compliance with the International Covenant on...
Extraordinary fascism: how the russian state is pursuing the rehabilitation of nazism
The Russian authorities have repeatedly justified the war against Ukraine, it with World War II, and their actions with the participation of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition. The State has appropriated the right to the past and is actively rewriting history. During the state’s , the authorities began to...
The charges of ‘public calls for terrorist activities’ and ‘organisation of extremist activity’ replacing those of ‘fakes.’
While 2025 is far from reaching its end, law enforcement officers have already managed to launch a number of high-profile criminal cases, for instance, against the employees of the ‘Individuum’ publishing house. Amid decreasing numbers of ‘fake news’ and ‘discreditation of the army’ charges we have assembled and analysed every...
Corporations and Solidarity: How Civil Society Mobilises Against Corporate Abuses
Input for the report on Corporations and International Solidarity submited to UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity by OVD-Info30 June 20251. Corporate Solidarity with RepressionCorporations often comply with Russian authorities’ demands to remove the content of independent media and organisations, contributing to disproportionate restrictions on the right...
Universities and the system: “Groza” presents a study on Russian authorities' pressure on students and academia. Specially for OVD-Info.
After the beginning of the war against Ukraine, Russian authorities began to interfere more frequently in the work of universities and academic projects. University administrations began to restrict the political activity of students and professors more severely, change regulations on student self-governance, use ethics committees as a tool of pressure,...
Transnational Repression by the Russian Federation: Threats, Tendencies, Solutions
Joint Research Interim Report, 2025Research & AuthorsConsortium: Collective Action Brussels Think Tank (CABT), OVD-Info, Vyvozhuk, CedarDesktop Analysis of TNR Cases: OVD-Info Online Questionnaire: Vyvozhuk Interviews: Collective Action Brussels Think Tank (CABT) Editor and Cover Design: Collective Action Brussels Think Tank (CABT) EU Outreach: Collective Action Brussels Think Tank (CABT) Graphical...