‘We never counted on love from the state’: Meduza talks to Memorial’s Yan Rachinsky immediately after Russia’s Supreme Court shuttered this prominent rights organization

In a ruling on Tuesday, December 28, Russia's Supreme Court shut down the country's oldest and most authoritative human rights organization -- the "Memorial" International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society. The ruling granted a petition filed by the Attorney General's Office, which maintains that International Memorial repeatedly violated Russia's "foreign agent" legislation (without presenting convincing evidence to support this claim). Moscow prosecutors filed a similar lawsuit against Memorial's human rights branch -- the next hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, December 29. To find out what today's ruling means for the future of International Memorial, Meduza spoke to the chairman of the organization's board, Yan Rachinsky. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/28/we-never-counted-on-love-from-the-state