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Suleyman Yanopol lives in a Kotlyar Roma encampment in Chudovo, Novgorod region. He is now completing his school education and is getting ready to follow in the footsteps of his older brother and go to college. In his hometown he…

  This year celebrations of International Romani Day were organized in Chudovo, Novgorod region, by Suleyman Yanopol, a local volunteer and activist, who now works as an assistant teacher for the first grades of a school in a local Roma…

International Romani Day was celebrated in several cities and towns in Russia, among them Samara. On this occasion the staff of ADC “Memorial” joined these celebrations. Samara region is home to several Romani population groups: Kotlyar (Căldărari) Roma dwelling in…

After the murder of several human rights activists working in Chechnya, Igor Kalyapin started the Joint Mobile Group. To reduce the risk they send investigators on short missions to Chechnya to document Human Rights abuses. This information is then used…

Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan, globally known to have critiqued the incumbent government of Bangladesh against its human rights abuses, has been released from prison today, October 11, 2013, after 62 days of prolonged arbitrary detention.

In March 2013 as part of a delegation of human rights defenders from various countries I visited Azerbaijan to take part in a human rights mission organized by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH). FIDH is an international movement…

Court hearings in Leninsky district court of Saint Petersburg in a case initiated by the procurator’s office against ADC “Memorial” which were scheduled for October 14, 2013 were postponed due to absence of the third party – representative of the…

In April 2013 I participated in an informational trip to Sweden as part of exchange devoted to protection of women and children from family violence. This trip was organized by INGO Crisis centre for women (Saint Petersburg) and National Association…

Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) currently has a practice of calling foreign citizens from the countries of Central Asia (labor migrants) to answer for the lack of obligatory medical insurance policy. Crossing the border to the Russian Federation without such…

Representatives of more than 70 NGOs from the European Union and Russia participated in a general assembly of Civic Forum in Hague on October 5-7, 2013. Following discussions at the forum participants adopted strategic aims for the next two years,…