Peace. Progress. Human Rights.

Our Ideals

"Peace, progress, human rights – these three goals are insolubly linked to one another."

ANDREI SAKHAROV

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 1975

Our mission

"Our mission is to support and promote the advancement of civil society, democracy and the rule of law.

We champion Sakharov's values – Peace. Progress. Human Rights – and we are committed to building a future based on this threefold foundation."

PPHR Director Elena Kotenochkina

Our Projects

Faces of the Russian Resistance is a series of exhibitions held in different cities around the world about Russians who opposed the criminal Putin regime and paid for this with their freedom. Our heroes are not only politicians who waged an open struggle for the freedom of Russia. They are ordinary citizens who did not believe the deceitful propaganda and did not accept the invasion of a neighboring country. They are men and women, young and old, political activists, artists, scientists, students, fathers and mothers. All of them have been imprisoned for years. Some—for decades.

Campaign #Free120 is the campaign for the release of critically ill political prisoners. Hundreds of political prisoners with serious illnesses are being held in Russian prisons and detention centres. They are denied medical care despite serious diagnoses ranging from diabetes and cancer to the effects of stroke.‍

Many of them have been sentenced to years or decades in prison for peaceful activism. They are being deprived not only of their freedom, but also of their right to life. We demand the immediate release of these people on humanitarian grounds.

Our goal is to draw public and international attention, to put pressure on the Russian authorities, and to save lives.