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The bill gives Russian officials oversight of local finances and activities. The bill has been highly criticized by Human Rights Watch, Memorial organization, and the INDEM Foundation for its possible effects on international monitoring of the status of human rights in Russia. [190]
On 7 April 2022, the UN General Assembly, which required a two-thirds majority, adopted the resolution with 93 votes in favour and 24 countries voting against. [1] 58 countries abstained. With Russia's membership valid through 2023, [13] the Russian delegation announced it had quit the Human Rights Council earlier that day in expectation of the ...
Decree of the President of Russia number 299 modified intellectual property laws in Russia. Countries on the unfriendly countries list would not receive reciprocity for copyrighted goods. [23] In March 2023, Russia announced that people from unfriendly countries will be subject to a "voluntary" exit tax of up to 10 percent to be paid into the ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine have agreed on an exchange of 40 prisoners of war each, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said on Wednesday after meeting her Ukrainian ...
The Russian constitution outlaws torture, and Russia is also part of the United Nations Convention Against Torture. (Reporting by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Mark Trevelyan) Show comments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States issued sanctions against a Russian judge on Tuesday for her role in the detention of human-rights activist Alexei Gorinov over his opposition to Russia's ...
Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre (previously Memorial Human Rights Centre) is a Russian interregional organization, deprived of the registration by the authorities.. The Centre compiles reports on human rights violations, creates lists of political prisoners and supports them, and provides legal and information support to refugees, migrants, and conscripts.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Tajikistan has been comparatively the most exposed of the five Central Asian countries. A few other countries in the region, including Tajikistan, decided not to take part in the UNGA's emergency special session on the Russian invasion of Ukraine in March 2022.