Victor Davidoff
Victor Davidoff is a Soviet dissident and human rights activist. He worked as the editor-in-chief of the Globus news agency (1993-2005) and was the publisher of the New Chronicle of Current Events (2015-2019). As an independent journalist, he has written for Radio Liberty and Voice of America. Davidoff is the author of The Ninth Circle (Moscow, 2021), a study of the abuse of psychiatry for political purposes in the USSR. He is an expert on Russian politics and the human rights situation in Russia.
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Articles by Victor Davidoff
Why Is the Kremlin Silent About Attacks on Russian Territory?
At dawn on Thursday (May 19), an ethanol plant in the Russian village of Tyotkino, in Kursk Oblast, near the Ukrainian border, came under artillery fire for the second day...
Russian Opposition and the Authorities: An Unstable Equilibrium
The end of June marks two months of active confrontation between the opposition and authorities. Moscow seems to have come out of the political coma it was in for the...
Russia Passes Draconian Anti-Protest Law after First Filibuster in Duma’s Modern History
June 5, 2012 will likely go down in history as the turning point in the development of Russian parliamentarism. Under Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian State Duma (lower...
Clan In-fighting Reveals Cast of Secret Support for Moscow Demonstrators
Two days after the protest rally in Moscow on May 6 ended in violence, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told one of the opposition leaders: “The demonstrators’ livers ought...