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Rights in Russia
by Rights in Russia
Discussing human rights in Russia [in Russian and sometimes English].
Episodes
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Podcast Then & Now #42: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Masha Slonim
Pictured: Masha Slonim 28 May 2026 Welcome to the 42nd edition of the Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas I’m one of thousands of Facebook followers of Russian-British journalist Masha Slonim. Masha and I met forty years ago when we were colleagues at the BBC Russian...
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Podcast Then & Now #41: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Ksenia Luchenko
8 May 2026 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the 41st edition of the Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. Ksenia Luchenko (pictured above) is the author of the book Благими Намерениями – Русская Церковь и Власть от Горбачева до Путина [‘With Good Intentions: The Russian Church...
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Podcast Then & Now #40 [Part 2]: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Tanya from Mariupol
20 March 2026 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the second part of the 40th edition of the Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas Today, we continue Tanya’s story from Mariupol. In the first part, we left her with her granddaughter in Krasnodar. Many moves lay ahead before they...
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Podcast Then & Now #40 [Part 1] - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Tanya from Mariupol
Welcome to the 40th edition of the Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas Our latest episode is devoted to the story of a grandmother from Mariupol, who left her home three days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At that time she thought the bombing would end and...
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RiR Interview: Prosecuting Russian war crimes - with Bill Bowring and Steve Crawshaw
This month Mary Page’s guests to discuss Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and in particular the issue of prosecuting for war crimes and other human rights abuses committed by Russia in Ukraine, are both from the UK: the academic and human rights lawyer Bill Bowring (pictured left) and Steve...
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Podcast Then & Now #39 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Dmitry Oreshkin
Welcome to the 39th edition of the Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. Among the first guests on the podcast was Dmitry Oreshkin, the well-known political scientist. At that time we talked with him about the significance for Russia of that fateful day – 24 February – when...
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Podcast Then & Now #38 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Mikhail Fishman
19 January 2026 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the 38th edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today, Mikhail Fishman, is known to viewers of the independent television channel TV Rain as the host of his own weekly political programme, I Tak Dalee [‘And...
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Podcast Then & Now #37: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Maria Alekhina and Olga Borisova
3 December 2025 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the 37th edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. Maria Alekhina, is a founding member of the Pussy Riot art collective. Pussy Riot’s performance, in February 2012, when they sang their Punk Prayer in the Cathedral of...
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Podcast Then & Now #36: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Manon Loizeau and Ekaterina Mamontova
Not long ago, the documentary film « Politzek » was premiered on French television. It was made by two women – one French and one Russian – and is dedicated to political prisoners in Putin’s Russia. Manon Loizeau is an experienced documentary filmmaker who has filmed in Grozny during the Second...
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Podcast Then & Now #35: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with theatre director Alexander Molochnikov
3 October 2025 Welcome to the 35th edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas Our guest today is actor and theatre director Alexander Molochnikov. Alexander Molochnikov (personal archive) In this podcast we are making a break from our usual Russian-language format....
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Podcast Then & Now #34 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Sergei Davidis
Our guest today is Sergei Davidis, a Russian lawyer, human rights activist and leading member of Memorial. Sergei Davidis has extensive experience in organising various human rights initiatives and political protests in defence of democratic principles in Putin’s Russia. In 2010, Davidis founded...
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Podcast Then & Now #33 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lana Estemirova
18 July 2025 by Teresa Cherfas Welcome to the 33rd edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas On 15 July 2009, Chechen human rights activist and member of the management committee of the human rights organization “Memorial,” Natalia Estemirova, was murdered. She…
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Podcast Then & Now #32 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Pavel Talankin
Welcome to the 32nd edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. Today’s episode illustrates like nothing else the difference between ‘Then and Now’ in Russia. It concerns the transformation of an entire generation into an instrument of patriotism and militarism in...
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Podcast Then & Now #31 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Marina Sapritsky-Nahum
Welcome to the 31st edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now. Our latest guest is Marina Sapritsky-Nahum, a social anthropologist and author of the book Jewish Odesa, published in 2024 by Indiana University Press. The book explores issues of identity and tradition in the Jewish…
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Podcast Then & Now #30 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Andrey Shary
Welcome to the 30th edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. Since the very first episode of this podcast, ‘Then and Now’ has referred to the rupture in people’s lives caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today, ‘Then and Now’ is equally applicable...
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Podcast Then & Now #29 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Alissa Timoshkina
My guest today is Alissa Timoshkina. Originally from Omsk in Siberia, Alyssa left Russia to study in England at the age of 15. She has been living and working in London ever since. She is the author of two cookery books – but cookery books with a difference. The first came out six years ago and…
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Podcast Then & Now #28 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Natalia Soprunova
Welcome to the twenty-eighth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Natalia Soprunova, a mathematician, teacher and mother of four children. Her story is so inspiring that it is immediately obvious how much Putin’s Russia has lost as a result...
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Podcast Then & Now #27 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Mikhail Shishkin
Welcome to the twenty-seventh edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Mikhail Shishkin, a Russian writer who has resided outside Russia for almost 30 years. Last September, Mikhail Shishkin announced a new literary prize – “ Dar” [“The Gift”]....
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Podcast Then & Now #26 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Irina Shcherbakova [Part 2]
Welcome to the twenty-sixth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. In this episode, you can hear the second part of my interview with Irina Shcherbakova, one of the founders of “Memorial”. I first spoke to her in October of this year [you can listen to podcast...
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Podcast Then & Now #25 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Evelina Chaika
Welcome to the twenty-fifth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is human rights activist and founder of the European LGBT human rights organization Equal – PostOST, Evelina Chaika. A year ago, the non-existent “international LGBT movement”…
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Podcast Then & Now #24 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Irina Shcherbakova [Part 1]
Welcome to the twenty-fourth edition n of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. There is a well-known saying from the late Soviet period: “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past”. It resonates anew, this time in Putin’s Russia. My guest today is Irina...
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Podcast Then & Now #23 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Slava Ptrk
Welcome to the twenty-third edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is the Russian artist Slava Ptrk. The Crypt Gallery in central London recently hosted a multimedia exhibition called The Brainwashing Machine, about the uses of propaganda. The...
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Podcast Then & Now #22 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Askold Kurov
My guest today is documentary filmmaker Askold Kurov, whose latest film, “Of Caravans and Dogs,” was screened this past June in England as part of the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the UK. According to the festival programme, this “bold and compelling...
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Podcast Then & Now #21 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Nadezhda Skochilenko
Hello and welcome to the Then and Now podcast with me, Teresa Cherfas. Our guest today is Nadezhda Skochilenko. On November 16, 2023, the Vasileostrovsky court sentenced her daughter, Aleksandra Skochilenko, to seven years in a general regime penal colony. Sasha Skochilenko’s ‘crime’ was…
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Podcast Then & Now #20 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Olga Sadovskaya
Welcome to the twentieth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Olga Sadovskaya, a lawyer from the civil society group, Team Against Torture. The project’s members have been investigating complaints by Russians about torture for over two...
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Podcast Then & Now #19 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Iryna Khalip
Our guest today is Iryna Khalip, a Belarusian journalist and participant in the 2010 protests against election fraud in the presidential elections in Belarus. Her husband is the politician Andrei Sannikov who ran as an opposition presidential candidate in those very elections. Since 2006, Iryna…
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Podcast Then & Now #18 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Leyla Latypova
My guest today is Leyla Latypova, a journalist who works as a special correspondent for the English-language newspaper The Moscow Times. An ethnic Tatar from the republic of Bashkortostan, Leyla writes about politics and civil society in Russia’s regions and national republics. In her work, she...
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Then & Now #17 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Zoia Svetova
Our guest today is Zoia Svetova, renowned journalist and human rights activist. She continues to live and work in Moscow. She is the author of several books, including Priznat’ nevinovnogo vinovnym [To Find the Innocent Guilty]. Her voice is perhaps one of the few authoritative oppositionist…
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Then & Now #16 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Anastasia Burakova
My guest today is Anastasia Burakova, a human rights lawyer and democratic activist from Russia. We are still in shock at the news of the murder of Aleksei Navalny in a high-security penal colony in the settlement of Kharp. Aleksei Navalny’s political star rose as a leader of the opposition to…
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Then & Now #15: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Anna Karetnikova
Welcome to the fifteenth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Anna Karetnikova. Until recently, Anna Karetnikova lived and worked in Moscow. In 2016, she was appointed lead analyst to the Federal Penitentiary Service – FSIN. Prior to that,...
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Then & Now #14: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Mamuka Kuparadze and Aleksandr Pichugin
My guests today are Mamuka Kuparadze, the founder of Studio Re in Tbilisi, which works to advance ‘people’s diplomacy’ through documentary film, and Aleksandr Pichugin, a Russian journalist, originally from Nizhny Novgorod, who left Russia with his family immediately after the announcement of the...
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Then & Now #13 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lev Ponomarev
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev. Lev Ponomarev trained and worked as a physicist in the USSR before devoting more time and energy to issues of human rights in the Soviet Union and...
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Then & Now #12 Teresa Cherfas - in conversation with Natalya Zyagina, head of the Moscow office of Amnesty International until its recent forced closure
My guest today is Natalya Zyagina, head of the Moscow branch of Amnesty International shut down by the Russian authorities in 2022. Natalya Zvyagina has a long record as a Russian human rights activist. She is originally from the city of Voronezh, where she worked for many years in the...
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Then & Now #11 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Aleksandra Ilkhovskaya and Svetlana Dokudovskaya
My guests today are two Parisians, Aleksandra Ilkhovskaya and Svetlana Dokudovskaya: Aleksandra [known to everyone as “Sanya]” has lived in Paris since she was six years old – her mother emigrated from Russia in 1991. She is married with two daughters. She is a primary school teacher with 10…
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Then & Now #10 Teresa Cherfas in conversation with the writer Maxim Osipov
My guest today is the author Maxim Osipov. Following in the great Russian tradition of Chekhov and Bulgakov, he has pursued a career in medicine in parallel with that of a writer. For his works of fiction – for the most part short stories that are sharp and witty commentaries on modern-day life…
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Then & Now #9 Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Tetyana Sokolova, for many years a midwife at Mariupol City Maternity Hospital No. 2.
Welcome to the ninth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. My guest today is Tetyana Sokolova, a professional midwife of 40 years at Mariupol Maternity Hospital No. 2, on the left bank of Mariupol near Azovstal, the industrial plant that became a centre of...
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Then & Now #8: Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Nataliya Gumenyuk of The Reckoning Project
Welcome to the eighth edition of our Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. As a rule, guests on our podcast are individuals for whom 24th February 2022 was a turning-point in their life; today we are talking about an organisation that came into being as a result of that...
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Then & Now #7 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Boris Kuznetsov
Welcome to the seventh episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. In recent weeks, politically motivated trials and lengthy prison terms in Putin’s Russia reached a new peak. Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment for treason and Evgenia...
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Then & Now #6 – Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Dmitry Oreshkin
Welcome to the sixth episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. Whilst our podcast is mostly about people for whom February 24th 2022 was a turning-point in their lives, the subject of today’s conversation is the country, whose leadership caused that date to…
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Then & Now #5 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Marina Ovsyannikova
Welcome to the fifth episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. With me today is Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who shocked the world with her anti-war protest on 14 March 2022, which went live on Russian State TV’s prime time news programme...
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Then & Now#4 - Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Andrei Kurkov
Our latest guest is the Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov. Andrei Kurkov became widely known to readers around the world in 2001 when his novel Smert’ postoronnego [Смерть Постороннего] was published in English translation as Death and the Penguin. Other novels followed and, in their wake, worldwide...
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Then & Now #3. Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Lev Gudkov
Welcome to the third episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 everything, everywhere, suddenly looked different. That day was a watershed. Guests on the Then & Now podcast are people for whom…
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Then & Now #2 Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Svetlana Gannushkina
Welcome to the second episode of our new Russian-language podcast Then & Now with me, Teresa Cherfas. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 everything, everywhere, suddenly looked different. That day was a watershed. Guests on the Then & Now podcast are people for whom…
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Then & Now #1 Teresa Cherfas in conversation with Marina Litvinenko
Welcome to our new Russian-language podcast, Then & Now, with me, Teresa Cherfas. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 everything, everywhere, suddenly looked different. That day was a watershed. Guests on the Then & Now podcast are people for whom February 24 became a...
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Human Rights in Russi week-ending 24 June 2022 - with Varvara Pakhomenko
Our guest on the podcast this week is Varvara Pakhomenko. Varvara Pakhomenko has been a human rights activist for a very long time. Back in her native Tomsk she was actively involved in human rights activities. Having moved to Moscow, Varvara began working with many human rights activists in the...
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Human Rights in Russia week-ending 17 June 2022 -with Nikolai Kavkazsky
Our guest on the podcast this week is Nikolai Kavkazsky. Nikolai Yurievich Kavkazsy is a Russian civil society activist, human rights defender and opposition politician. He is one of the leading Yabloko activists in Moscow. Nikolai Kavkazsky was a defendant in the Bolotnoe case. Politically, he...
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Human Rights in Russia week-ending 3 June 2022 - with Nikita Petrov
Our guest on the podcast this week is the historian Nikita Vasilievich Petrov. Nikita Petrov is deputy chair of the board of the Memorial Research and Information Centre (which is based in St. Petersburg). Born in Kiev, Nikita Petrov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering and...
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Human Rights in Russia week-ending 20 May 2022 - with Lev Ponomarev
Our guest on the podcast this week is Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev (pictured, left, with the late Andrei Babushkin). Lev Ponomarev is a human rights activist and head of the For Human Rights movement and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. He also participated in the creation of the Memorial...
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Human Rights in Russia week-ending 6 May 2022- with Andrei Kalikh
Our guest on the podcast this week is Andrei Kalikh, a human rights researcher, journalist, and activist with a special interest in the issue of corruption. In the past, Andrei worked as programme director at the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights and he has been a board...
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Human Rights in Russia week-ending 1 April 2022 - with Kirill Koroteev
Our guest on the podcast this week is the lawyer Kirill Koroteev, head of international legal practice of Agora International Human Rights Group. Previously, Kirill worked as legal director at Memorial Human Rights Centre, where he specialized in handling cases before the European Court of Human...
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