Putin’s Russia and the war against Ukraine: Insights from Human Rights Activists
Join us for an eye-opening dialogue with Oleg Orlov, one of Russia’s most prominent human rights activists and co-chair of the Nobel Prize winning Memorial, Oleksandra Romantsova from the Nobel Prize winning Centre for Civil Liberties and Leonid Soudalenko from Viasna Human Rights Center, the NGO of the Nobel Prize laureate Ales’ Bialiatski, who is now imprisoned in Belarus.
Our guests will offer their insights into the state of Putin’s Russia and the devastating war against Ukraine, as well as on the violation of human rights in the region. In this conversation moderated by Nathalie Tocci, Orlov, Romantsova and Soudalenko will discuss the erosion of freedom and civil society in Russia and Belarus, the mechanisms of state propaganda, the repression of dissent, and the profound consequences of the Kremlin’s war for both Ukraine and the Russian and Belarusian peoples.
Their reflections, shaped by decades of activism and their personal experience under persecution and war, will shed light on the moral and political challenges of confronting dictatorship in our time. They will also present the campaign PeopleFirst, aimed at releasing all people imprisoned or deported after the start of the war on both sides of the front.
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