Tanya Lokshina

Tanya Lokshina is deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Moscow office.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Lokshina ran a prominent Moscow-based human rights think-tank, Center “Demos,” which implemented research and advocacy projects in such areas as human rights abuses in armed conflict zones; arbitrariness and violence in the activities of state agencies; effective implementation of international human rights standards; human rights education; and human rights mainstreaming. Since 2003, Lokshina’s work has largely focused on Chechnya and other North Caucasus republics.

Her books include Chechnya Inside Out and Imposition of a Fake Political Settlement in the Northern Caucasus, which both received praise in Russia and Europe. Lokshina has co-drafted numerous human rights reports, including reports addressed to the UN treaty bodies. Lokshina runs a column for the Russian current affairs website Polit.Ru. She is recipient of the 2006 Andrei Sakharov


Articles by Tanya Lokshina

Thursday February 13

“The ongoing crackdown on civil society is truly unprecedented”

Those who dare speak out—be it about their sexual identity or their discontent with governmental policies—are threatened with punishment and blackened in the eyes of society.