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The annexation of Crimea by Russia and the ensuing military conflict in southeastern Ukraine have shaped Russia’s civic and political climate over the past year. The Russian media is waging a massive military propaganda campaign, хenophobia and hostility toward “Western…

The decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Kim v. Russia has strategic significance for similar cases involving the detention with a view toward expulsion of stateless persons in a SUVSIG. No country will accept them, which renders…

Welcome to the website of ADC “Memorial”. We would like to invite you to learn more about our activities: how we work to overcome discrimination of minorities and protection of the rights of migrants in the countries, which formerly were…

At the 113th Session of the UN Committee on Human Rights the 7th periodic report of the Russian government on the implementation of articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the Russian Federation will be discussed….

ADC “Memorial” has prepared a list of issues and themes pertaining to discrimination against women from particularly vulnerable groups, such as Roma women, migrant women, LGBT women, and Muslim women. This list has been prepared in anticipation of the 62nd…

In their struggle against various forms of discrimination human rights defenders treat discrimination of HIV-positive people as a special problem, which requires attention. This issue constitutes a sort of the intersection of several forms of accentuated stigmatization and discrimination: it…