On November 21-22, 2013 International forum “Cooperation between governmental and non-governmental organizations from countries of origin and destination in working with labor migrants from Central Asia” was held in Saint Petersburg. It was organized by the Russian Charitable foundation for…
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On November 15, 2013 Smolny district court of Saint Petersburg has ruled on the case of the organizer of a picket in memory of murdered antifascist Timur Kacharava, which was held back in 2012. The activist who had organized the…
On 11 November 2013, a hearing in the civil case brought by Admiralteysky District Prosecutor’s Office against the Anti-Discrimination Centre ‘Memorial’ (ADC ‘Memorial’) took place in the Leninsky District Court of St Petersburg. The Prosecutor’s Office initiated a civil suit…
Trial Court Awaits Ruling by European Court of Human Rights or Constitutional Court of Russia
An appeal hearing objecting the charges filed by the public prosecutor was held today, November, 18, at Zamoskvoretskiy district court of Moscow. The charges filed with the Chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Centre Memorial by the office…
Civil Court Case Becomes a Battle of Experts
On November 11, 2013 scheduled court hearings were held on a civil case of the procurator’s office against private charitable association Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial”. Procurator’s office had requested that ADC “Memorial” should be obliged to list itself in the register…
On November 2, 2013 international conference on the problems of education for Roma children and integration of them into Russian schools was held in ADC “Memorial” in Saint Petersburg. Principals and teachers of schools where considerable number of Roma children…
On November 1, 2013 regional public association “Children of Saint Petersburg” and ADC “Memorial” held a round table discussion devoted to the problems of foreign-speaking children. The problem of access to education, integration into school collectives, social and psychological adaptation…
On November 7-8, 2013 as part of Ukraine’s chairmanship in OSCE an additional meeting was held on the topic of human dimension and implementation of the plan for improving the situation of Roma and Sinti people. Ten years has passed…
Human Rights Watch Statement about the civil suits of prosecutor against ADC “Memorial” and “Women of the Don”. Two independent organizations could become the first victims of new legal tactics by Russian prosecutors to limit human rights work. Having failed…
In July 2012 Stepan Patryshev approached ADC “Memorial” for legal assistance in the case of violation of his rights during a detention by the police officers of the 76th police station in Saint Petersburg, namely captain A.Koshelev, head of the…