OVD-Info
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OVD-Info () is an independent Russian human rights media project aimed at combating political persecution. Its main focus is freedom of assembly. OVD-Info is one of Russia’s largest human rights NGOs.
Key facts
- Company.logo
- OVD-Info logo.svg
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- ОВД-Инфо
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- ru
- Company.type
- Nonprofit non-governmental organization
- Company.founder
- Grigory Okhotin and Daniil Beilinson
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- Russia
- Company.num_employees
- ~7000 volunteers as of 2023, undisclosed number of staff
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Services
- Monitoring
- Legal aid
- Newsletters
- Informing
- Research
- Functioning and financing
- Awards
- References
- External links
OVD-Info () is an independent Russian human rights media project aimed at combating political persecution. Its main focus is freedom of assembly. OVD-Info is one of Russia’s largest human rights NGOs.
== History == OVD-Info was founded in December 2011 by Moscow journalist Grigory Okhotin and programmer Daniil Beilinson. They witnessed mass arrests of participants in the pro-democracy rally on December 5, 2011. Okhotin and Beilinson then posted the total number of detainees and their names on Facebook. The post went viral, and seeing the demand for their work, by December 10, on the eve of the rally on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, Okhotin and Beilinson launched the OVD-Info website.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OVD-Info” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.