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Articles by Tanya Lokshina
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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...
Ukraine
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...
news
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...
news
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...