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Glacier Chung Ching Kwong and Leonid Volkov reflect on their experiences defending human rights in Russia and Hong Kong.

ISPs in Russia have blocked TorProject.org, the main domain of privacy-focused web tool Tor. Moves to block the wider network are also underway.

Opposition candidate, no one could figure out which one he was. that is just one of the next level totally crazy election manipulation techniques from the putin government in the most recently russian election. theyll do basically anything. nothing is too outlandish, too humiliating to keep russians from voting for putin party or chosen candidates. they play dirty, and so opposition leaders have decided they need to play smart. case in point, a smart voting app designed by allies of russias most...

Candidate. you download this app, enter your zip code, and you would then be told by the app which opposition candidate in your district had the best chances of taking down a member of putins party. that smart voting app, that whole idea was such a big threat to putin and his party that just days before the national election, the russian government started harassing google and am, literally threatening to prosecute russian-based employees of those companies if google and apple didnt pull the app...

Humiliating to keep russians from voting for putin party or chosen candidates. they play dirty, and so opposition leaders have decided they need to play smart. case in point, a smart voting app designed by allies of russias most potent opposition leader, alexei navalny, the idea is because the deck is so stacked against opposition candidates in russia, all of the opposing parties should team up and vote tactically. everybody should team up and vote tactically, vote together, put all of their dif...

Russia’s September 2021 parliamentary elections demonstrated the lengths to which the Kremlin will go to crack down on opposition groups. Where did this strategy come from—and how far will the Kremlin take it?

Russia’s September 2021 parliamentary elections demonstrated the lengths to which the Kremlin will go to crack down on opposition groups. Where did this strategy come from—and how far will the Kremlin take it?

This infamous group of misogynists has just been branded as “extremist” by a Russian court. What is the Male State — and can it survive?

Russia said on Tuesday it is seeking to fine Google more than $200 million after the U.S. tech ...

MOSCOW (AP) — After a few weeks of desultory campaigning but months of relentless official moves to shut down significant opposition , Russia began three days of voting early Friday in a parliamentary election that is unlikely to change the country’s political complexion.