Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alexeyevais a Russian historian, leading human rights activist, founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, and one of the last Soviet dissidents still active in modern Russia...
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He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.
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What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.
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In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.