Feedback 13.01.2011
Umid means “hope”
On the 24th of May, the workers of the anti-discrimination center “Memorial” learned of the beating of a migrant worker at the 68th police station of St Petersburg. On the next day I met with the aggrieved person.
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13.01.2011
Advocacy of migrant workers’ rights
The economical and social situation in many Central Asian countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States forces many people to go to Russia “for a better lot”: to earn money and support family and many relatives who retain at home….
I came to St Petersburg to work from my hometown Osh two years ago. For a long time I could not find employment, and I was forced to take any job just not to starve and pay my debts. In…
The presentation of the bilingual book «Gipsy fairy tales» in Romani and Russian languages and audio book on СD (read by the author) by Alexander Klein, took place in St. Petersburg House of Nationalities on April, 5th, 2010.
Resistance to any form of discrimination, fascism or racism becomes more important after recent nationalist actions in a few Russian cities and surge of xenophobia.
17.12.2010
The Gypsies of the City on the Neva
A Cultural Survey The Gypsies of the City on the Neva