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Articles by Tanya Lokshina

opinion Tanya Lokshina

It Is Our Moral Calling to Stand With Wrongly Imprisoned Russian Playwright and Director

The year-long imprisonment of director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk is emblematic of the Kremlin’s war on free expression.
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opinion Tanya Lokshina

Moscow Plays a Weak Hand on Lawlessness in Chechnya

It's time the Kremlin stops simply whispering in Kadyrov’s ear behind closed doors and demonstrate that lawlessness will no longer be tolerated. 
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Memory, and Memorial, Will Prevail

Russia’s government cannot wipe out historic memory and people’s aspirations for fundamental freedoms and the rule of law.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Thugs Attack Russian Human Rights Group, Then Police Make Matters Worse

Thursday night, thugs invaded the offices of Memorial, a leading Russian rights group, and although police eventually arrived , instead of helping them...
opinion Tanya Lokshina

France Is Complicit as Magomed Gadaev at Risk of Torture in Chechnya

The French Interior Ministry’s decision to expel Gadaev put him at immediate risk of torture.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Justice Is Needed for Belarus. International Scrutiny Is the Way to Get it.

I have seen women and men tortured, humiliated and degraded by the Lukashenko regime.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

The Russian Public Helped Free One 'Moscow Case' Prisoner, Now They Want More

Their voices are getting louder and they will be hard to silence.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Remembering Beslan 15 Years Later

For the nightmare of Beslan never to be repeated, its lessons must be learned.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Justice Is Never Too Late for Natalya Estemirova, Russian Activist Killed 10 Years Ago

The activist was was kidnapped in Chechnya and murdered on July 15, 2009.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Remembering Lyudmila Alexeyeva, the Matriarch of Russia’s Human Rights Movement (Оp-ed)

To honor her, we should do our part to make the world a better place.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

What Lies Beneath Russia's World Cup Glam and Glitter? (Op-ed)

Russia today is at its most repressive since the Soviet era.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Don’t Tolerate the Intolerable from Chechnya’s Strongman Kadyrov (Op-ed)

Kadyrov was making vile threats long before his HBO interview. It’s time for international action.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Putin Will Be Forced to Act on Chechnya's Anti-Gay Purge

Reports of at least three deaths and hundreds of arrests of gay men in Chechnya have shocked the world. International pressure is the key to saving...

Raw Fear in Separatist-Controlled Donetsk

November was unseasonably warm this year in Donetsk, an eastern Ukrainian city under pro-Russian separatists’ control. As you walk down Pushkin Boulevard...

They Do Exist : Why It's Time to End Secret Detention in Ukraine

Kostyantyn Beskorovayny spent 15 months jailed secretly by the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU). An active member of the Communist party, he was no supporter...
opinion Tanya Lokshina

War in Eastern Ukraine Brings Lasting Misery for Elderly (Op-Ed)

The armed conflict that swept eastern Ukraine in 2014 and is still ongoing displaced close to a million people, who fled the fighting.
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Donbass Is Clinging to Illusion of Peace (Op-Ed)

The cease-fire in eastern Ukraine appears to be holding, but for how long?
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Civilians Stuck in the Middle of Donbass Horror

Vasily Nikolaevich, a 63-year-old resident of Mariinka, a small town in Ukraine just 20 kilometers southwest of rebel-controlled Donetsk, was in his...
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Russia Is Waging an Invisible War in Dagestan (Video)

As the car crawls through the fog on an icy road in the Caucasus Mountains, my phone keeps ringing. "Are you by any chance in Donetsk? Does Human...
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Civilians Despair as Both Sides Break the Rules in East Ukraine

In the outskirts of Donetsk, close to the airport, where fierce fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels has been ongoing for months...

One Woman's Account of 16 Years Behind Bars in a Russian Prison

20-year-old Tatyana Gavrilova was convicted of murder by the Russian courts in 1999. She spent the next 16 years in various institutions before being released...
opinion Tanya Lokshina

Russia's Civil-Rights Crackdown Began in Kiev

In late February when "polite green men" emerged in Crimea, I was at the Human Rights Watch annual staff gathering in New York. In fact, the day...