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A photo exhibition on the life of a local Roma settlement opened in Leskolovo, Leningrad region. Volunteers and local Roma children made a total of over 20,000 photo shots and then chose the best ones for the exhibition. Local cultural…

ADC “Memorial” was approached by the crisis center for women “Svet Nadezhdy” (“Light of Hope”) with a request for legal assistance  to be provided to Mrs. O., a citizen of Uzbekistan, who was a victim of family violence and ended…

In June 2012 ADC “Memorial” was approached by Svetlana Medvedeva, who has faced impossibility to take a practical course and thus complete education in ship navigation due to the ban of her shipping company on her performance as a motor-mechanic/helmsman….

An important court ruling was made by a Russian court in 2013 as a result of cooperation between ADC “Memorial”  and attorneys Olga Tseitlina and Sergey Golubok in case of a person without citizenship S.  Saint Petersburg city court has…

GENEVA (14 May 2013) – Three United Nations independent human rights experts today expressed serious concern at the “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” brought about by the current implementation in the Russian Federation of the law on ‘non-commercial organizations’ (NCOs),…

May 7, 2013, Saint-Petersburg. Antidiscrimination centre (ADC) “Memorial” has appealed to the UN Committee against Torture with a request to witness in its defense in a court case against it which will consider whether ADC should be registered as a…

The attorney from the Admiralty district of St. Petersburg saw signs of “a call against the current government and state structures” in the November 2012 human rights report of the UN Committee against Torture. As evidence, prosecutors quoted multiple times…

Starting March 26, 2013 procurator’s offices carry out checks of the private charitable establishment ADC “Memorial”. Thousands of copies of documents were requested to be provided, while the admnistration of the organization has spent hours and hours answering the questions…

On April 17, 2013 at “The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights” forum, in which representatives of civil society from various parts of the world took part, report on “Violation of the NGOs right to funding: from harassment to…

In April 2013 Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has published crime statistics via the new specialized website http://crimestat.ru, also noting violations in the official crime reports by the Russian Interior Ministry. Information published on Prosecutor General’s Office website deals with various…