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It is possible that some of you are aware that, starting in June 2003, “Memorial” has implemented a program of free medical assistance to elderly people of gypsy (Roma) origin in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad and Pskov regions.

We continue to tell about schools where Gypsy children study. Today the discussion is about School No. 414 in the village of Volodarka. It recently became fifty years old. By today’s measures, the school is small – almost 300 children…

Diverse work on getting children of various nationalities, including gypsy children, to go to school has long been going on at School 462 in Pushkin region. Today the third generation of gypsies living in Alexandrovskaya is studying at the school,…

The roundtable devoted to the Human Rights Day was organised as a part of the 16th International film festival on human rights “Stalker.” The UN senior adviser on human rights in Russia, Russian human rights activists working on discrimination (the…