UN Special Rapporteur on Russia Extended for Another Year

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Mariana Katsarova with Russian writer Boris Akunin, one of the critics in exile targeted by the Kremlin, Palais Nation, September 22, 2025. © 2025 Tanya Lokshina/Human Rights Watch The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on October 7 extended the mandate of the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, for another year.The UNHRC’s renewed commitment to closely monitor the human rights situation in Russia, a Security Council veto-wielding state, is a lifeline for the country’s besieged civil society. This…

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