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PEN to Russia: Human Rights Orgs are not “Foreign Agents”
[caption id="attachment_14703" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Vladimir Putin"][/caption] PEN International and 21 other international human rights and free expression organizations have issued an open letter to the Russian Duma protesting a draft… More
Russian Court Refuses to Free Pussy Riot Members
PEN is shocked by a Russian court’s decision to keep the members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot in jail until at least late July. More
Russian Pen Says That Official’s Apology Is Not Enough
The closure of the "hunting season" against a Novaya Gazeta journalist does not guarantee that history of this kind will not be repeated in the future. More
Russian Top Official Threatens Novaya Gazeta Journalist
News of the threats made by the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee against the editor of the independent weekly newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, is cause for deep alarm. More
Russian PEN: Protesting Anti-Protest Legislation
News this week that Russian authorities had arrested more protestors and that teams of investigators raided the homes of blogger Aleksei Navalny, television star Kseniya Sobchak, and other prominent… More
Russian PEN: Protesting Anti-Protest Legislation
[caption id="attachment_13392" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Russian protestors clash with riot police in Moscow"][/caption] News this week that Russian authorities had arrested more protestors and that teams of investigators raided the homes… More
The Russians are Writing! The Russians are Coming!
Guest post by PEN Translation Committee member Ronald MeyerBook Expo America (BEA) kicks off on June 4th at the Javits Center, and Russia is both this year’s guest of… More
Chinese, Russian Activists Nominated for Nobel
OSLO (AP) - Candidates for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize include a Russian human rights group, a Chinese dissident and an inanimate object: the Internet, people who made the… More