At the 90th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s birth in Moscow on May 21 this year, the ranks of Sakharov’s cohorts were already thinner. Figures like veteran rights campaigner Larissa Bogoraz and scientist Valentin Turchin had died in recent years, and people felt that if they didn’t get to the 90th, they might not see people [...]
Tag: veteran rights
June 22, 2011
March 31, 2011
Police Bust Up Anti-Kremlin Rallies In Moscow, St. Petersburg
MOSCOW — Russian police detained dozens of anti-Kremlin protesters as they tried to demonstrate for the right to assemble on Triumph Square in central Moscow. Similar protests and detentions were reported in St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. The protesters were heavily outnumbered by riot police. At least 54 of a group of more radical opposition [...]