Paris, Saint-Petersburg — Over the last two years the Russian authorities have waged the largest offensive against freedom since the end of the Soviet Union, according to a report published today by FIDH and its member organisation ADC Memorial. The…
People in a neighboring country, Ukraine, stood in pickets even if it was freezing cold, lived on city squares and struggled against intolerable laws, trying to abolish them (and they did succeed in some cases!). But Russia has “its own…
Following last year’s outbreak of anti-immigrant sentiments, many Russian media started reporting about an unprecedented “rise in crime acts” committed by immigrants, which supposedly was a “threat to national security”. Spreading negative news reports and outright distortion of facts inevitably…
On January 23-24, 2014, ADC “Memorial”, Russian LGBT Network and Civil Partnership Platform “Central Asia on the Move” took part in the session of the UN Committee on the Rights of a Child. Earlier these NGOs together with LGBT organization…
Issue #12 (29) features a film review of “Ivan. In memory of our friend” (a documentary about Ivan Khutorskoy, a Moscow antifascist murdered by the neo-Nazis), an interview about the situation in Greece and the ban on the Golden Dawn…
Five years ago, in 2009, lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in Moscow by neo-Nazis. January 19 – they day of their murder – became the day of memory, antifascist actions, public assemblies against all forms of…
Issue #12 (29) features a film review of “Ivan. In memory of our friend” (a documentary about Ivan Khutorskoy, a Moscow antifascist murdered by the neo-Nazis), an interview about the situation in Greece and the ban on the Golden Dawn…
ADC “Memorial” has published report to the UN Committee for Children’s Rights concerning the problems of children coming from vulnerable groups. Appendices to the report were prepared together with LGBT organization “Vykhod” (Coming Out) and the Russian LGBT Network. Publication…
On January 19 each year a picket is traditionally held in memory of antifascists Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov, who were murdered by neo-Nazis in 2009. This year a picket was to be held on January 19 on the Field…
ADC “Memorial” has published report to the UN Committee for Children’s Rights concerning the problems of children coming from vulnerable groups. Appendices to the report were prepared together with LGBT organization “Vykhod” (Coming Out) and the Russian LGBT Network. Publication…
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