On December 6th, 2011, during mass protests in St Petersburg Filipp Kostenko, public activist and employee of the human rights organisation Anti-discrimination centre Memorial, was arrested and put into detention centre at Zakharyevskaya str., 6, and embarked on hunger strike.
On 10th of December, a seminar on the refugees’ rights will take place in the office of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial at 5 p.m. The address of the office is St Petersburg, 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya str., 25/14, office 410.
On November, 25 a court in Minsk delivered a verdict for Ales Bialiatski, vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the head of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna.” The court found Bialiatski guilty and sentenced him for 4,5…
In 1974 the 30th day of October was declared the Day of political prisoners in USSR. 37 years have passed, and many things have changed. The USSR does not exist anymore, but political repressions still take place in the countries…
During our 15 years of cooperation with the Belarusian Human Rights Centre “Viasna”, we have known our colleagues and partners – human rights defenders from Viasna – to be outstanding, brave and honest professionals. This counts in particular for Ales…
September 25th is the birthday of Ales Bialiatski, a vice-president of an International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and head of the human rights center “Viasna” – a member organisation of the FIDH in Belarus, who has been imprisoned in…
During our 15 years of cooperation with the Belarusian Human Rights Center “Viasna”, we have known our colleagues and partners – human rights defenders from Viasna – as outstanding, brave and honest professionals. This counts in particular for Ales Bialiatski,…
In August 2005 an international seminar “Research methods of culture in human sciences” took place in the region of Odessa. Among the participants were ethnologists, linguists, historians, political scientists from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria and Greece.
Socialising is one of a person’s basic needs. Therefore it is unsurprising that language and its problems cause so much debate – language itself is the fundamental means of human communication. Language is a part of human culture, and just…
In the village of Chudovo the Kalderash have lived for 20 years. In the village there is a “settlement” school where children receive primary education. However, not many of them study further. (Following the traditions of their fathers and grandfathers),…
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