🕊 Russian Human Rights Initiative. We stand for: 🌍 Freedom of information 🌚 Reducing secrecy 📱 Digital Rights The First Department (Первый отдел) is a community of lawyers and journalists fighting against government secrecy. We open the doors of closed court sessions, unearth illegally classified data from archives, and defend citizens unfairly accused of crimes against the state. Why "The First Department"? It's quite simple. The First Department of the FSB's Investigative Dire...