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We demand the release of Antonina Favorskaya and Olga Komleva 2024-04-04 [EFJ]

Moscow court extends detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich by three months 2024-03-28 [IFJ]

WFTU condemnation statement on the terrorist attck in Moscow 2024-03-26 [WFTU]

Statement on the announcement by the Russian Federation that IndustriALL Global Union is an “undesirable organization” 2024-03-09 [IndustriALL]

Foreign correspondents targeted by new intimidation practices 2024-02-14 [EFJ]

Russian Ministry of Justice declares IndustriALL Global Union as 'undesirable' 2024-02-07 [Current Time]

St. Petersburg Police Round Up Thousands of Migrant Workers in New Year's Raids 2024-01-02 [Moscow Times]

New Russian Owners ‘Squeezing Out’ Workers at Former Volkswagen Plant – Trade Union 2023-12-13 [The Times]

Trade unions condemn criminalisation of LGBTIQ+ people and activists in Russia 2023-12-09 [EPSU]

Pardon for Anna Politkovskaya’s murderer 2023-11-17 [IFJ]

Authorities detained Radio Free Europe journalist Alsu Kurmasheva 2023-10-25 [EFJ]

ITF designated as undesirable organisation by Russian Federation 2023-09-08 [ITF]

End Russian war crimes against journalists in occupied Ukraine 2023-09-07 [Article 19]

Two journalists critical of the Kremlin allegedly poisoned in exile 2023-08-28 [EFJ]

Two journalists critical of the Kremlin allegedly poisoned in exile 2023-08-23 [IFJ]

The IFJ Gender Council says 'no impunity' for the attack on Russian journalist Yelena Milashina 2023-07-07 [IFJ]

EFJ and IFJ remember journalist Yuri Shchekochikhin 2023-07-05 [EFJ]

Armed thugs beat up journalist and lawyer 2023-07-05 [EFJ]

EFJ and IFJ demand release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich 2023-04-03 [EFJ]

IFJ and EFJ demand release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich 2023-04-01 [IFJ]

Striking Food Delivery Workers in Russia Take on Tech Giant Yandex 2023-03-25 [Asian Labour Review]

IFJ suspends Russian union 2023-02-25 [IFJ]

Independent Russian journalists fear 'anything can happen' 2023-02-23 [IFJ]

Journalist sentenced to six years in prison for Telegram post 2023-02-16 [EFJ]

Russian journalist Nevzorov sentenced to 8 years for comments on war 2023-02-01 [EFJ]

Journalist Alexander Nevzorov sentenced to 8 years for comments on war 2023-02-01 [IFJ]

Russian authorities have outlawed news website Meduza 2023-01-30 [EFJ]

Freedom to Mikhail Lobanov! Stop the violence against the labour union activist! 2023-01-07 [University Solidarity]

Mikhail Lobanov must be released! 2023-01-07 [University Solidarity]

Journalists and independent monitors being silenced to stifle reporting of protests 2022-11-25 [Amnesty International]

Ukrainian, Polish unions demand expulsion of Russian FNPR from ITUC 2022-11-10 [Solidarnosc, KVPU]

18 journalists arrested during anti-war protests 2022-09-24 [IFJ]

18 journalists arrested during anti-war protests 2022-09-23 [EFJ]

Moscow court liquidated the Journalists and Media Workers’ Union 2022-09-15 [EFJ]

Ivan Safronov has been sentenced to 22 years in jail 2022-09-08 [EFJ]

Moscow court has stripped Novaya Gazeta of its print media licence 2022-09-08 [EFJ]

Moscow court strips Novaya Gazeta of its print media licence 2022-09-08 [IFJ]

Ivan Safronov has been sentenced to 22 years in jail 2022-09-06 [IFJ]

Finally on track: ban on female train drivers lifted 2021-01-21 [RTÉ]

Navalny Establishes One-Man Labor Union In Russian Penal Colony 2022-08-21 [RadioFreeEurope]

Journalist Marina Ovsiannikova faces criminal charges 2022-08-11 [IFJ]

The EFJ condemns the arrest of Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova 2022-08-11 [EFJ]

EFJ and IFJ condemn 'stop list' banning European journalists 2022-08-05 [EFJ]

First step towards the liquidation of the journalists’ union 2022-08-04 [EFJ]

Russian trade union federation defends Putin's attack on Ukraine: ”A peace-building operation” 2022-03-08 [Arbetet Global]

Changing perceptions of what it is like to be gay in Moscow – one tour at a time 2018-05-14 [Equal Times]

Kremlin Moving To Destroy All Independent Trade Unions – OpEd 2018-01-17 [EurAsia Review]

‘War destroys everything': Russian culture workers denounce war in Ukraine 2022-03-07 [France24]

In Russia the North Koreans Work ‘Basically in the Situation of Slaves' 2017-07-14 [New York Times]

Fifa ‘has come up short' in protecting Russia 2018 stadium workers 2017-06-14 [Guardian]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-04-1885 Yakov Sverdlov is born in Nizhny Novgorod. He will become a leading Bolshevik revolutionary and first chairman of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets [more]

4-04-1913 270 dead in the crackdown on a demonstration by Siberian gold mine workers for better working conditions, the 8-hour day and higher wages. [more]

10-04-1932 Thousands of mostly women mill workers joined a strike against the reduction in rations. [more]

17-04-1912 Tsarist troops shoot dozens of striking gold miners dead near the Lena River in Siberia [more]

19-04-1924 The Kronstadt revolt was crushed by the Red Army commanded by Trotsky: 4,836 sailors were deported, 6,528 arrested, 2,168 executed. 10,000 dead on the Red Army side in repeated failures to retake the city. [more]

22-04-1870 Birth of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. [more]