Rights in Russia

Sep 25 2024 149 ep. 625 mins
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Discussing human rights in Russia [in Russian and sometimes English].

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Podcast Then & Now #23 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Slava Ptrk

Sep 25 2024 35 mins  
Welcome to the twenty-third edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is the Russian artist Slava Ptrk.The Crypt Gallery in central London recently hosted a multimedia exhibition called The Brainwashing Machine, about the uses of propaganda.  The exhibition, which first opened in Madrid, showed works

Podcast Then & Now #22 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Askold Kurov

Sep 02 2024 30 mins  
My guest today is documentary filmmaker Askold Kurov, whose latest film, “Of Caravans and Dogs,” was screened this past June in England as part of the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the UK.According to the festival programme, this “bold and compelling documentary looks at the curtailment of press freedom in Russia on the eve of and du

Podcast Then & Now #21 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Nadezhda Skochilenko

Jul 29 2024 42 mins  
Hello and welcome to the Then and Now podcast with me, Teresa Cherfas. Our guest today is Nadezhda Skochilenko. On November 16, 2023, the Vasileostrovsky court sentenced her daughter, Aleksandra Skochilenko, to seven years in a general regime penal colony. Sasha Skochilenko’s ‘crime’ was committed about a month after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and co

Podcast Then & Now #20 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Olga Sadovskaya

Jun 21 2024 33 mins  
Welcome to the twentieth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Olga Sadovskaya, a lawyer from the civil society group, Team Against Torture. The project’s members have been investigating complaints by Russians about torture for over two decades. Thanks to their work, hundreds of cases of torture by law enforcem

Podcast Then & Now #19 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Iryna Khalip

Jun 04 2024 39 mins  
Our guest today is Iryna Khalip, a Belarusian journalist and participant in the 2010 protests against election fraud in the presidential elections in Belarus. Her husband is the politician Andrei Sannikov who ran as an opposition presidential candidate in those very elections. Since 2006, Iryna has been working as Belarus correspondent for Novaya gazeta, now Nov

Podcast Then & Now #18 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Leyla Latypova

Apr 30 2024 42 mins  
My guest today is Leyla Latypova, a journalist who works as a special correspondent for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. An ethnic Tatar from the republic of Bashkortostan, Leyla writes about politics and civil society in Russia’s regions and national republics.  In her work, she promotes and defends the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities

Then & Now #17 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Zoia Svetova

Mar 28 2024 47 mins  
Our guest today is Zoia Svetova, renowned journalist and human rights activist. She continues to live and work in Moscow.  She is the author of several books, including Priznat’ nevinovnogo vinovnym [To Find the Innocent Guilty]. Her voice is perhaps one of the few authoritative oppositionist voices still heard in Russia today.  This podcast was reco

Then & Now #16 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Anastasia Burakova

Feb 25 2024 24 mins  
My guest today is Anastasia Burakova, a human rights lawyer and democratic activist from Russia. We are still in shock at the news of the murder of Aleksei Navalny in a high-security penal colony in the settlement of Kharp. Aleksei Navalny’s political star rose as a leader of the opposition to the Putin regime in 2011.  That year, 2011, played a significant part in

Then & Now #15: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Anna Karetnikova

Feb 12 2024 32 mins  
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Anna Karetnikova. Until recently, Anna Karetnikova lived and worked in Moscow.  In 2016, she was appointed lead analyst to the Federal Penitentiary Service – FSIN. Prior to that, she served for eight years as a member of the Public Oversig

Then & Now #14: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Mamuka Kuparadze and Aleksandr Pichugin

Jan 09 2024 44 mins  
My guests today are Mamuka Kuparadze, the founder of Studio Re in Tbilisi, which works to advance ‘people’s diplomacy’ through documentary film, and Aleksandr Pichugin, a Russian journalist, originally from Nizhny Novgorod, who left Russia with his family immediately after the announcement of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and started a new life in Tbilisi.Since Russia’s f