In 2016, Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial” together with the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties prepared a human rights report on violation of LGBT rights in occupied Crimea and Donbas. The text contains numerous cases of physical attacks, moral violence against LGBT…
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The Moscow Times: ‘Like Pre-Revolutionary Pogroms’: Ethnic Conflicts on the Rise in Russia
For the second time in 13 months, Roma have fled a Russian village for fear of attacks. Olga Abramenko, an expert on the Roma with the St. Petersburg-based Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center, said that tensions between Roma people and ethnic Russians…
Moscow City Court rejected a lawsuit against Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which was made by Johannes Rohr, a German expert on indigenous peoples. Rohr has challenged the decision of the FSB to ban him from entering Russia until 2069….
RT: The list of jobs women in Russia are banned from doing will see an almost a six-fold reduction, with the ladies now getting a chance to pilot planes, drive trains and handle heavy construction machinery. “Labor conditions at many…
Sky News: This week, after a two-year legal battle, a court in St Petersburg ordered the Janoshka printworks to give Ms Vasilyeva her job back and to pay her 1.85 million roubles (£22,000) in lost income and 10,000 roubles (£120)…
On 8 April, the international day of the rights of Roma representatives are included in this minority 80 ethnic groups celebrate their national holiday. On this day in the Studio RFI came Stefania Kulaeva, head of the anti-discrimination centre “memorial”,…