Because of a recent attempt by the Russian Orthodox Church to seize St. Petersburg St. Isaac’s Cathedral in February 2017, many people remembered the events of a century ago. The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church also apparently considered the…
Stefania Kulaeva What purpose does withdrawal of children from the family by the state serves, that of protecting the rights of the child or the suppression of the rights of family? In what cases public guardianship authorities can exercise their…
Olga Abramenko On December 16, 2016 members of the “Aboriginal Forum”, an informal association of experts representing indigenous peoples of the Russian Far North, Siberia and Far East, reported that the director of the Centre for Assistance to Small-numbered Indigenous…
Stefania Kulayeva As time goes by, more and more new details become known of how police stormed a house where two desperate students barricaded themselves with a gun in the village of Strugi Krasnye in the Pskov region. It turned…
As you may know, in April this year the Russian president signed a decree on the merger of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) with the Interior Ministry. In accordance with this decree, FMS was abolished as a separate agency and…
In mid-summer 2016 the law “On the basis of the system of crime prevention” came into force. If understood literally, this law should be useful for prevention of crime and protection of people in difficult situations, such as homeless or…
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