Freedom Alert

Russia should immediately end its escalating interference with media in Ukraine, and both Ukrainian and Russian authorities should protect journalists’ rights and safety, Freedom House said.

Freedom House mourns the passing and remembers the achievements of Soviet dissident Boris Pustyntsev, a pioneer of civil rights advocacy in his country and whose work spanned more than half a century.

Freedom House strongly condemns a Russian court’s sentencing of seven political prisoners February 24 to prison terms of two-and-a-half to four years each in the Bolotnaya Square case, as well as the detention of more than 800 peaceful demonstrators gathered in their support over the last week outside the courthouse and the Kremlin.