Human Rights in Russia: Citizens and the State from Perestroika to Putin

Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments—from the prosecution of Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky and Russia's global role, especially in relation to Ukraine, have captured the attention of the world. The role of human rights activism inside Russia is, therefore, coming under ever greater international scrutiny. Since 1991, when the Russian Federation became an independent state, h...