OVD-Info is proud to announce that we are launching a free weekly newsletter in English — the Dissident Digest!
The Digest is your window into the dark world of the Kremlin’s war on human rights and civil society in Russia.
The Dissident Digest informs you through data, news and explainers. The newsletter is by no means all-encompassing but we strive to provide you with a snapshot of most important developments.
OVD-Info’s English branch has been spurred into existence by Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Parallel to the invasion, the authorities unleashed an unprecedented wave of repressions at home, aiming to crush the anti-war movement.
It is now more important than ever to stop repressions in Russia as they are essential to Putin’s war-making capacity.
We aim to inform scholars, activists, policymakers and opinion leaders — helping shape the global response to the Kremlin’s domestic repressions.
The Dissident Digest Archive:
#81 | The wars of Christmas & Indigenous people | 18 December 2024
#80 | Birthday & Human Rights Day | 12 December 2024
#79 | Quran burning & Orthodox neo-nazis | 28 November 2024
#78 | 1,000 days & Anastasia Berezhinskaya | 21 November 2024
#77 | Aikhal Ammosov & Nadezhda Buyanova | 13 November 2024
#76 | Returning the names & Another wave of queer persecution | 7 November 2024
#75 | Russia’s archive of resistance: Stories behind numbers | 30 October 2024
#74 | Special Edition: We rely on you | 18 October 2024
#73 | Education witch hunt & the trial that wasn’t | 9 October 2024
#72 | Bodies & AUE | 2 October 2024
#71 | Special Issue: Repression Without Borders | 25 September 2024
#70 | De-rehabilitations & Mediazona | 18 September 2024
#69 | Elections & Putin’s visits | 12 September 2024
#68 | $30 donation & Prosecuted at 70 | 28 August 2024
#67 | Family values & uncivil society | 21 August 2024
#66 | 1,000 politically persecuted & Kirill Buzmakov | 14 August 2024
#65 | Pavel Kushnir & exchanged prisoners | 7 August 2024
#64 | The exchange & indigenous activists | 1 August 2024
#63 | Denied passports & 16 years in prison for journalism | 24 July 2024
#62 | Necrocommunists & Follow ups | 17 July 2024
#61 | The undesirable family & Follow ups | 11 July 2024
#60 | Lyudmila Vasilyeva & The lesson of goodness | 3 July 2024
#59 | Summer of hate & Anastasia and Sergei Gordienko | 27 June 2024
#58 | Honey pot for a gay purge & death in prison | 19 June 2024
#57 | Pride month | 6 June 2024
#56 | Activist asks for euthanasia & the youngest 'traitor' in Russia | 29 May 2024
#55 | The Hyperpatriots & Vera Sedinina | 22 May 2024
#54 | Helsinki Group & Nadezhda Kevorkova | 15 May 2024
#53 | Inauguration & Victory Day | 8 May 2024
#52 | Vox pops & prison pressure | 24 April 2024
#51 | Aleksandr Skobov & Belgorod | 10 April 2024
#50 | Regional dissent & health in prison | 4 April 2024
#49 | Crocus aftermath & Tofik Abdulgaziev | 27 March 2024
#48 | Noon against Putin & Navalny HQs | 21 March 2024
#47 | Raids & RusNews | 13 March 2024
#46 | Navalny’s burial & denunciations | 6 March 2024
#45 | Yuri Trubachev & Soldiers’ mothers | 28 February 2024
#44 | Navalny murder emergency issue | 20 February 2024
#43 | Banned rainbows & Vyacheslav Malakhov | 7 February 2024
#42 | Deplatforming & Mayboroda | 31 January 2024
#41 | Hope & Music | 24 January 2024
#40 | Protests in Bashkortostan & an attack on the Left | 16 January 2024
#39 | Almost Naked & jail for Navalny supporter | 9 January 2024
#38 | Putin’s new rival & victorious protesters | 12 December 2023
#37 | Happy birthday to us | 5 December 2023
#36 | Queer rights under attack & Egor Balazeikin | 28 November 2023
#35 | LGBTQ under attack & the fear of protests | 21 November 2023
#34 | Potemkin popularity & Bohdan Ziza | 14 Novemer 2023
#33 | Elena Markova & Lev Skoryakin | 7 November 2023
#32 | Ukrainians in Russia & Memorial | 31 October 2023
#31 | Foreign agents & Alsu Kurmasheva | 24 October 2023
#30 | An attack on lawyers & Alexander Byvshev | 17 October 2023
#29 | Repression without borders & Ilya Yashin | 10 October 2023
#28 | Memory wars & Pavel Krisevich | 3 October 2023
#27 | Fight against propaganda & wartime repression | 26 September 2023
#26 | Punishment cells & Sasha Skochilenko | 19 September 2023
#25 | Decoloniality & Mikhail Afanasiev | 12 September 2023
#24 | Knowledge Day & Natalya Filonova | 5 September 2023
#23 | Elections & antifascist Azat Miftakhov | 29 August 2023
#22 | Extraterritorial repression & Elena Kostyuchenko | 22 August 2023
#21 | Elderly activists & why Navalny matters | 11 August 2023
#20 | Rebel priests & a warrior shaman | 04 August 2023
#19 | Abuse of psychiatry & the Alexei Gorinov case | 25 July 2023
#18 | Academic freedom & trans rights | 18 July 2023
#17 | Zarema Musaeva & Elena Milashina in Chechnya | 11 July 2023
#16 | The draft & an another attack on freedom of speech | 4 July 2023
#15 | Discrediting the military & Igor Baryshnikov | 27 June 2023
#14 | Trans rights & torture | 21 June 2023
#13 | The Vesna Movement & the Orlov Case | 13 June 2023
#12 | Security services defection & Alexei Navalny’s birthday | 6 June 2023
#11 | Rights defender jailed for 14 years & the Kremlin’s anti-antifascism | 31 May 2023
#10 | War & Greenpeace, Kremlin & crime | 23 May 2023
#9 | Journalism under threat | 16 May 2023
#8 | Legacies of WWII & terrorism | 11 May 2023
#7 | Ukrainians in Russia & «undesirable organizations» | 25 April 2023
#6 | LGBT persecution & eco-activism | 18 April 2023
#5 | Jehovah’s Witnesses & direct anti-war action | 11 April 2023
#3 | «Spreading Fakes» & an attack on public spaces | 21 March 2023
#2 | Freedom of expression & state islamophobia | 14 March 2023
#1 | Protest & freedom of expression | 7 March 2023
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