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Interviews
- Armenia
- Activist/political scientist, Yerevan, 11 April 2017.
- Representative, Regional Studies Center, Yerevan, 6 April 2017.
- Representative, Helsinki Committee Armenia, Yerevan, 6 April 2017.
- OSCE representative of former Mission to Armenia, Berlin, 27 March 2017.
- Moldova
- Representative, Transparency International, Chișinău, 1 December 2017.
- Former police officer (via Viber), 4 April 2019.
- Human rights lawyer, Chișinău, 30 November 2017.
- Representative, Institute for Public Policy (IPP), Chișinău, 27 February 2019.
- Member Occupy Guguţa, Chișinău, 26 February 2019.
- Member Occupy Guguţa (E-mail conversation), 12 September 2019.
- Member of Watchdog.md, Chișinău, 21 November 2017.
- Representative, Human rights organisation Credo, Chisinau, 23 November 2017.
- Party activist, Dignity and Truth Party (Platforma DA), Chișinău, 28 November 2017.
- Belarus
- Activist, Nash Dom, Minsk, 10 September 2017 (follow-up questions 2020).
- Representative, Belarusian United Civic Party, Minsk, 8 September 2017.
- Representative of REP Union, Bobruisk, 12 September 2017.
- Representative of Viasna, human rights organisation, Minsk, 13 September 2017.