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Critical Conversations in Russian Studies: The State of Human Rights in Russia Today

Friday, February 5, 2021

12:15 P.M. – 1:45 P.M.

Location: Zoom & Live-streamed to Facebook

The first of the RSW Series Critical Conversations in Russian Studies will feature human rights experts Dmitry Dubrovsky, Dmitry Makarov, Tatyana Margolin, and Emma Gilligan in a discussion about what can be done to improve human rights abuses in Russia today, the important role of the US and of NGOs, and the larger role of authoritarianism on human rights in the world.

This panel follows on a series of human rights projects that RSW has supported in recent years, including a fall 2020 panel devoted to Black Lives Matter in Russia, a fall 2019 symposium dedicated to the life and legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva, a spring 2018 seminar addressing Enforced Disappearances and Torture in the Russian Federation, a semester-long campus visit in fall 2019 that we co-sponsored by LGBTQ activist Lyosha Gorshkov, and various other faculty-led and student-involved scholarly research projects.

View a recording of the panel discussion.

Co-sponsored by the Department of International Studies.

Panelists & Moderator

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Dmitry Dubrovsky is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Governance at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Dubrovsky is an expert on human rights in Russia who focuses primarily on xenophobia, ultra-right nationalism, hate crimes, and hate speech as they relate to freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.

Emma Gilligan

Emma Gilligan is an Associate Professor of International Studies at Indiana University. Gilligan is an expert on human rights. Her most recent book, Terror In Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War (Princeton University Press, 2010) examines the war crimes committed by Russian soldiers against the civilian population of Chechnya, placing the conflict in Chechnya within the international discourse on humanitarian intervention in the 1990s and the rise of nationalism in Russia.

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Dmitry Makarov is Co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki group. He focuses on issues like freedom of assembly, right to a fair trial, police impunity, citizen oversight over the courts, police and prisons, as well as human rights education and sustainable support for the human rights movements.

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Tatyana Margolin is the Regional Director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations. In this capacity, Margolin works closely with the seven national foundations in Eurasia and helps initiate and sustain cross-regional partnerships to advance Open Society’s mission in the region. Margolin previously lead the Eurasia Program’s work on responding to the reactionary backlash and closing civic space in the Eurasia region. See Rachel Myer's interview with Tatyana. 

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