Discrimination of A.Sosnov, a person with vision impairment, who could not enter Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after Bekhterev, although he had successfully passed entry exams for psychiatric internship after magna cum laude graduation from Chuvash University. Institute administration explained its refusal to admit Sosnov by the requirement for its students to have on-the-job training, while special conditions for people with disabilities were absent there (in case of Sonov, additional lighting was required), while the institute lacked financing for this and nobody wanted to deal with solving this problem.
Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had been illegally denied the right to study at the internship program at the psychiatry faculty of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after Bekhterev, finally received compensation…
For more than a year various Saint-Petersburg courts considered the case of Andrey Sosnov, a disabled person with vision impairment, who had made a legal appeal against the refusal of the Saint Petersburg scientific and research psycho-neurological institute named after…
Lawyers of ADC “Memorial” Inessa Sakhno and Sergey Mikheyev represented legal interests of Mr. Sosnoiv, a disabled person, in court in a case against discriminatory approach. On December 22, 2014 judge N.Ikonnikova of the Nevsky district court of Saint Petersburg…
Over 20 years ago, back in 1992, the UN General Assembly declared December 3 the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Since then the states – members of the United Nations Organization try to time various events aimed at improving…
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