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Russia's Nobel Prize-winning rights group Memorial branded 'extremist'Russia's Supreme Court has declared the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial an extremist organization. This move intensif...- Alexei Navalny was struck down with 'sudden death syndrome', his mother was told at Russian prisonAlexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from "sudden death syndrome," and his body would...
- EU awards top human rights prize to the people of UkraineIt's the second straight year EU lawmakers used the Sakharov Prize to send a message to the Kremlin. Imprisoned Russian opposition leader A...
- Ales Bialiatski: Veteran rights defender in authoritarian BelarusHe spent his 60th birthday in prison on September 25, as he did his 50th, but won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in the wake of historic d...
- Why Mikhail Gorbachev's legacy still threatens Vladimir Putin?During his presidency, Vladimir Putin has systematically destroyed these historic achievements. On their ruins, his regime is mobilising mi...
- Mikhail Gorbachev: His seven years that changed the worldIn nearly seven years, between March 1985 and December 1991, he changed the course of history by ending the Cold War and triggering the dem...
- Will Greta Thunberg win the Nobel Peace Prize this year?Potential recipients also include Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya of Belarus & Russia's Alexei Navalny.
- Writer Joyce Carol Oates wins France's $218,000 Cino del Duca World PrizeThe prize is often seen as a stepping stone to the Nobel.
- India is streets ahead of US and Russia when it comes to renaming roadsLong before New Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road leapfrogged three centuries to become Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Road, the street on which the US consulat...
- Freedom, poetry, rebellion and music ... when we lived our bravest momentsThe Seventies was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of...
- Can street battles affect any outcome?Iran may rename the street in Tehran on which the Embassy of Saudi Arabia stands after the Shia cleric the Saudis executed, Sheikh Nimr al-...
- The subtle and not-so-subtle politics of naming roads and streetsIt’s been 45 years since the then-Left Front cheekily renamed the street outside the US Consulate in Kolkata after Ho Chi Minh.
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