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...most high-profile case is that of Andrey Erofeyev, former head of contemporary art at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery. In 2008 he was indicted and charged with inciting religious hatred after putting on an exhibition a year earlier at the Andrey Sakharov Museum in Moscow called "Forbidden Art 2006." The paintings depicted in the show were considered by authorities to be insulting to the Orthodox Church - one of the works showed a crucified Lenin, another portrayed Mickey Mouse as Jesus. Erofeyev was fired from his job at the Tretyakov in 2008, and his trial is ongoing. "Artists should...
...General's Office maintain Orthodox chapels on their premises. Only the Orthodox clergy are entitled to give ecclesiastic guidance to the military. Some provinces have included Russian Orthodox Culture classes in school curricula with students doing church chores. When Orthodox fundamentalists vandalized an art exhibition at the Moscow Andrei Sakharov Center as "an insult to the main religion of our country," the Moscow Court found the Center managers guilty of insulting the faith, and fined them $3,500 each. The ROC had an opera, based on a famous fairy tale by the poet Alexander Pushkin, censored to the point...
...days of Soviet rule, fear was prevalent. People who spoke up against Kremlin authoritarianism knew what to expect: harassment, isolation, imprisonment and worse. Most people dared to grumble only in the relative safety of their own kitchens, but a hardy few - advocates of freedom such as Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky - made their dissent public...
...because they are closely related to both. Russian civil society can survive without international financial support, but not without political support. The work carried out by NGOs may be, after all, the most important means of developing the rule of law in Russia. Both authors are fellows at the Sakharov Program on Human Rights at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Arkadiy Leybovskiy is a historian from Krasnodar. Kirill Babichenko is an attorney from Velikiy Novgorod and serves on the Commission of Human Rights in the Novgorod region...
...real world. Won’t the personal satisfaction involved in working for the Hague offset having to pass up on traveling in Italy? Also, if you’re doing it in Russia, Central Asia, or Eastern Europe, you can work through the more sexily named Andrei Sakharov Internship through the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies...