{"id":1353,"date":"2025-05-03T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:58:06","slug":"the-peace-deals-blind-spot-human-rights-repression-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/2025\/the-peace-deals-blind-spot-human-rights-repression-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peace Deal\u2019s Blind Spot: Human Rights Repression in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Peace Deal\u2019s Blind Spot: Human Rights Repression in Russia\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/cu-people\/jean-francois-ratelle\/\">Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Ratelle<\/a> &#8211; University of Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new American administration in place, peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia have returned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/17\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-peace-explained.html\">agenda<\/a>. These discussions primarily focus on territorial control, security guarantees for Ukraine, and the lifting of economic sanctions on Russia. However, they leave little room to address the increasingly repressive measures implemented by the Kremlin since February 2022. Amid the shifting priorities of the U.S. administration, critical issues such as human rights\u2014freedom of the press, association, and dissent\u2014have been mostly sidelined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy memo examines the impact of the post-2022 amendments to the Foreign Agent Law, the new criminal code amendment introduced in March 2022 and 2023 to target anti-war support, and the increased use of anti-terrorist laws to target activists, which have collectively created an environment of severe repression in Russia. The new laws have cast a wider net than previous ones, targeting not only journalists and human rights workers but also ethnic and indigenous activists, well as anti-war protesters, resulting in a significant chilling effect on dissent and activism.&nbsp; The changes made to the Foreign Agent Law after 2022, in connection with the new laws enacted in March 2022 and 2023 amending Russia\u2019s Criminal Code, drastically extended the repressive power of the Kremlin and regional elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/05\/The-Peace-Deals-Blind-Spot-Human-Rights-Repression-in-Russia.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This policy memo examines the impact of the post-2022 amendments to the Foreign Agent Law, the new criminal code amendment introduced in March 2022 and 2023 to target anti-war support, and the increased use of anti-terrorist laws to target activists, which have collectively created an environment of severe repression in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[85,84,126,1,37,100,83],"tags":[124,35,125,42,43,78],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurasia","category-european-security","category-human-rights","category-news","category-policy-brief","category-russia","category-ukraine","tag-human-rights","tag-policy-brief","tag-protest","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eetn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}