Human rights in Russia week-ending 17 January 2020

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Sergei Nikitin and Simon Cosgrove discuss events of the past week in Russia, a summary of which can be found here.

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Sergei Nikitin and Simon Cosgrove discuss events of the past week in Russia, including President Putin's recent speech and a proposed reform of the Constitutional Court; the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights on the case of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev; the case of Karim Yamadayev in Tatarstan who has been remanded in custody for mocking President Vladimir Putin and two of his close associates in a YouTube video; the opening of a criminal case against the police officers who arrested Meduza special correspondent Ivan Golunov in June; the case of Leonid Krivenkov, a former cameraman for a Russian state TV broadcaster who spoke out about political censorship and corruption at his former employer Channel One, who has been the victim of an assault; and others.

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