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A photo exhibition on the life of a local Roma settlement opened in Leskolovo, Leningrad region. Volunteers and local Roma children made a total of over 20,000 photo shots and then chose the best ones for the exhibition. Local cultural…

ADC “Memorial” was approached by the crisis center for women “Svet Nadezhdy” (“Light of Hope”) with a request for legal assistance  to be provided to Mrs. O., a citizen of Uzbekistan, who was a victim of family violence and ended…

In June 2012 ADC “Memorial” was approached by Svetlana Medvedeva, who has faced impossibility to take a practical course and thus complete education in ship navigation due to the ban of her shipping company on her performance as a motor-mechanic/helmsman….

An important court ruling was made by a Russian court in 2013 as a result of cooperation between ADC “Memorial”  and attorneys Olga Tseitlina and Sergey Golubok in case of a person without citizenship S.  Saint Petersburg city court has…

GENEVA (14 May 2013) – Three United Nations independent human rights experts today expressed serious concern at the “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” brought about by the current implementation in the Russian Federation of the law on ‘non-commercial organizations’ (NCOs),…

May 7, 2013, Saint-Petersburg. Antidiscrimination centre (ADC) “Memorial” has appealed to the UN Committee against Torture with a request to witness in its defense in a court case against it which will consider whether ADC should be registered as a…