Tanya Lokshina
Associate Director, Europe and Central Asia Division Follow @TanyaLokshina
Tanya Lokshina, associate director for Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division, is based in Moscow. Having joined Human Rights Watch in January 2008, Lokshina authored several reports on egregious abuses in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus region and co-authored a report on violations of international humanitarian law during the 2008 armed conflict in Georgia. Her recent publications include a range of materials on Russia's vicious crackdown on critics of the government and on violations of international humanitarian law during the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Lokshina is a recipient of the 2006 Andrei Sakharov Award, "Journalism as an Act of Conscience." Her articles on human rights issues have been featured in prominent Russian and foreign media outlets, including CNN, the Guardian, Le Monde, the Moscow Times, Novaya Gazeta, and the Washington Post. Lokshina's books include Chechnya Inside Out and Imposition of a Fake Political Settlement in the Northern Caucasus. In 2014, her article on the abusive virtue campaign against women in Chechnya was published in Chechnya at War and Beyond (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series).
From HRW
July 12, 2019 Video
Video: Crimean Tatars Face Unfounded Terrorism Charges
Articles Authored
April 15, 2016 Dispatches
Dispatches: Kremlin Mopping Up the Remaining Dissenters in Crimea
Dispatches: The Price of Dissent in Chechnya
March 3, 2016 Dispatches
Dispatches: Prosecuted in Russia for Lack of Faith
February 8, 2016 Commentary
A Law Beyond Improvement
Published in Open Democracy
December 22, 2015 Dispatches
Dispatches: The Crime of Speaking Up in Russia
November 30, 2015 Commentary
A refugee family's ordeal in Russia
Published in openDemocracy
Civil Society Under Siege
Published in The Cipher Brief
November 10, 2015 Dispatches
Dispatches: Russian Government Targets Human Rights Giants
October 27, 2015 Dispatches
Dispatches: A Baby's Death in Russia – No Words Left
October 2, 2015 Commentary
Meanwhile in Putin's Russia, NGOs Face Oppression and Absurdity
Published in Newsweek
Reports Authored
"They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me"
Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia's Chechen Republic
"Like Walking a Minefield"
Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia's Chechen Republic
"You Don't Exist"
Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine
Invisible War
Russia's Abusive Response to the Dagestan Insurgency
"You Dress According to Their Rules"
Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women in Chechnya
"What Your Children Do Will Touch Upon You"
Punitive House-Burning in Chechnya
Humanitarian Law Violations and Civilian Victims in the Conflict over South Ossetia
"As If They Fell From the Sky"
Counterinsurgency, Rights Violations, and Rampant Impunity in Ingushetia