By Clare Angeroth Franks, REEI alumna Deaths which occur in state custody are a growing crisis in the Russian Federation. While there are no official statistics on deaths in custody in the country, more than one third of deaths associated with law enforcement agencies and the Federal Penitentiary Service (Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний or FSIN) are not adequately explained. Most often, the public only learns that… Read more »
Tag: Judicial system
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Roundtable on Pressing Human Rights Issues in Russia Today
This is the fourth in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 3, Monitoring courts, police, and prisons
This is the third in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
Blog series on Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: Panel 1, Memories of Lyudmila
This is the first in a series of five blog entries from the “Symposium on Human Rights in Russia: The Life and Legacy of Lyudmila Alexeyeva,” which took place on November 15-16, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University—Bloomington. The blog entries were written by graduate students who come from a variety of disciplines at… Read more »
“Nature vs. Nurture” with Kathryn Hendley
Written by Rachel Julia Myers, JD/ MA in Russian and East European Area Studies. As a first-year law student also pursing an MA in Russian and East European Area Studies, I am interested in studying the legal profession both in the United States and in Russia. In my class on legal professions at Indiana University… Read more »
“Human Rights Justice in Hybrid Regimes: Enforced Disappearances and Torture in the Russian Federation”
Written by Madeline McCann, graduate student in REEI Several weeks ago, the Russian Studies Workshop and the Department of International Studies sponsored a seminar on Human Rights Justice in Hybrid Regimes. Although the seminar broadly addressed the challenges of domestic litigation where there is weak rule of law, the focus in particular was on enforced… Read more »