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1 and 2 Living chain around KGB headquarters, Lubyanka Square, on the first ‘Political Prisoners Day’, 30 October 1989.

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3 Protester from Demsoiuz is led away from the 30 October 1989 demonstration.

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4 Requiem for dead soldiers organized by Mother’s Right, 1994.

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5 Svetlana Gannushkina of Migration Rights meeting with Yezidis, refused citizenship, in Krasnodar in 2005.

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6 Domestic violence poster of the early 2000s, used by ANNA.

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7 Poster used by Mother’s Right, 2010.

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8 Liudmila Alekseeva and Nina Tagankina (Moscow Helsinki Group) debate their right to hold a public meeting in Pushkin Square with law enforcement officers in 2007.

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9 Court hearing of Bolotnoe demonstrators, Black Friday, Moscow, February 2014.

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10 Demonstrators outside the court are removed by OMON (Special Services).

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11 March in St Petersburg protesting against the new law prohibiting discussion of LGBT issues with minors, 2013.

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12 Putin meeting with activists, January 2014, to discuss appointment of a new ombudsman. On the right is Alekseeva, on the left, Babushkin and Gannushkina. Vladimir Lukin, the outgoing ombudsman, is far right, opposite Elena Topoleva of the Civic Chamber.

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13 Sergei Kovalev, International Memorial Society.

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14 Liudmila Alekseeva, Moscow Helsinki Group.

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15 Arseny Roginsky, International Memorial Society.

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16 Lev Ponomarev, For Human Rights and Liudmila Alekseeva.

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17 Oleg Orlov, Memorial Human Rights Centre (with poster of Natalya Estemirova, murdered in Grozny in 2009).

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18 Valery Abramkin, Moscow Centre for Prison Reform.

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19 Svetlana Gannushkina, Civic Assistance Committee, Migration Rights.

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20 Boris Pustintsev, Citizens Watch.

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21 Andrei Blinushov, Memorial Society, Ryazan.

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22 Igor Kalyapin, Committee Against Torture.

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23 Igor Averkiev, Perm Civic Chamber.

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24 Grigory Shvedov, Caucasian Knot.

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25 Marina Pisklakova, ANNA.

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26 Pavel Chikov, Agora.

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27 Tanya Lokshina, Human Rights Watch.

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28 Maria Kanevskaya, Human Rights Resource Centre.