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St. Petersburg-based human rights organization ADC Memorial on Friday became the first major Russian nongovernmental organization to be liquidated for refusing to register as a “foreign agent” with the Justice Ministry. With its disbandment of ADC Memorial, the ministry has…

ADC “Memorial” has received official notice from the Russian Ministry of Justice that it had been liquidated. An official statement to this effect was introduced by the ministry into the Register of juridical persons on April 11, 2014. ADC “Memorial”…

On April 23, 2014 human rights defense association “Lawyers for constitutional rights and freedoms” (JURIX) organized round-table discussion “Strategic legal defense: practice and prospects for development” in Moscow. Lawyers, attorneys and representatives of NGOs from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Lipetsk…

The judicial panel of the Saint Petersburg city court, composed of presiding judge Gavrilova and judges Salnikova and Marina, ruled to decline ADC “Memorial’s” appeal against the earlier decision of Leninsky district court, which had required ADC “Memorial” to get…

by Stefania Kulayeva Some witty person once proposed to change the well known words of Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev “Who would grasp Russia with the mind?” by inserting another country’s name there. Thus a following piece was born: Who would…

Editorial Notes “Russian unity” vs. fascism and anti-Semitism of the “shadow world rulers”? Problems of discrimination Racism on the background of the Winter Olympics by Olga Abramenko Manipulating statistical data and the myth of “immigrant crime” by Sergey Mikheyev To…

by Anna Udyarova, lawyer of ADC “Memorial” When I first read the prosecutor’s suit and learnt what they chose as the reason (or, better say, pretext) for our persecution, I was very surprised. It sounded absurd: prosecution for a report…

“Defense of the rights of Russian-speaking people” and prevention of “persecution of people with pro-Russian sympathies” in the Ukraine recently became top concerns for the Russian state officials and mass media and it was this “necessity of defending Russians” that…

On April 8, the International Romani Day, representatives of ADC “Memorial” participated in several meetings of experts, devoted to problems of Roma people, including their defense from police arbitrariness, discrimination and torture. OSCE Expert Meeting on “Police and Roma and…

On April 8, 2014 Constitutional court of the Russian Federation announced its decision regarding the appeal made by human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin concerning violation of constitutional rights on NGOs, which were charged with “performing functions of foreign agents”. Constitutional…