In the late 1980s, Timofeev published Referendum magazine and served as the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, a human rights watchdog.
In 2006, he became Executive Director of the Moldovan Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, position held until 2011.
Helsinki | Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names | International Olympic Committee | Committee of Public Safety | UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee | University of Helsinki | Republican National Committee | Central Committee | European Court of Human Rights | Democratic National Committee | Human Rights Watch | human | Human sexuality | United States Department of Health and Human Services | Human swimming | House Un-American Activities Committee | International Committee of the Red Cross | Human | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary | United States House Committee on Ways and Means | The Human League | European Convention on Human Rights | United States Olympic Committee | American Jewish Committee | United States House Committee on the Judiciary | Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Human Genome Project | Equal Rights Amendment | Digital rights management | Center for Constitutional Rights |