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During Putin's first term as President (2000–2004), Freedom House rated Russia as "partially free" with poor scores of 4 on both political rights and civil liberties (1 being most free, and 7 least free).
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Russian human rights advocate and Kremlin critic, has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary written from his prison cell.
Václav Havel Human Rights Prize (2022) Pulitzer Prize (2024) Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Кара-Мурза , IPA: [kɐˌra mʊrˈza] ; born 7 September 1981) is a Russian-British political activist, journalist, author, filmmaker, and former political prisoner .
A Ukrainian human rights activist set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize next week says world leaders must create a special international tribunal to place Russian President Vladimir Putin and large ...
In 2012, the Russian government responded to the new American Magnitsky Act by passing the Dima Yakovlev Law (long title: On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation); [56] [57] banning Americans from adopting Russian children; and providing for sanctions against U.S ...
Memorial, founded in 1989, has defended freedom of speech and documented human rights abuses from the time of Soviet leader Jo Russia jails rights campaigner from Nobel prize-winning group Skip to ...
Proposed on 19 May 2000, signed on 29 July 2000: Authorization of the president to dismiss the heads of Federal subjects of Russia. (Federal Law On Modifications and Additions to the Federal Law On General Principles of the Organization of Legislative (Representative) and Executive Bodies of State Power of the Subjects of the Russian Federation.) [1]
Putin added a sanctioned pro-war journalist and a leader from the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" to a group set up to support human rights.