In early August the obmudsman in the Chelyabinsk region, Alexei Sevastyanov, visited a Roma settlement in Shagol. ADC Memorial has attracted attention of the municipalities to the status of the residents of the settlement many times. Last time ADC Memorial…
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Obtaining a work permit
According to the results of the human rights monitoring conducted by ADC Memorial, only 10% of migrant workers obtain work permits via the Federal Migration Service (FMS), while others prefer going to the mediators and legal agenicies. When foreigners come…
On April 2-3, 2011 ADC Memorial held an annual conference within the project “Legal help to Roma settlements in Russia”. This time the traditional exchange of the results and experience and discussions of the project’s problems took place on the…
Workbook for bilingual Russian/Romani primer
This workbook for bilingual alphabet is aimed at primary school students for whom Roma Сăldărari dialect is their native language. Working with this study material allows children to develop an understanding that they not only can speak, but also write…
“ABC/primer for those who study Russian as a non-native language” was prepared by the Department of Intercultural Communication of the Russian State Pedagogical University named after Alexander Herzen as part of the project of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” “Overcoming segregation and…
Adventures of a foreigner in Russia
His story is not unique and very similar to many other stories of the people who come to ADC Memorial for help.
On September 22, 2009 during the Federal Migration Service raid in the Roma settlement near Saint Peresburg, Anna Lakatos, Pavel Gabor and Aladar Forkos – Roma-magyars born in Beregovo, Carpathian Ukraine – were arrested as having no documents. Pavel Gabor…
Capoeira on International Roma Day
Annually Roma children from the settlement in Peri make wonderful performances on International Roma Day. Usually these concerts are organised in the Leskolovo culture centre. Colourful Roma dances, songs and performances attract many people. This year the young Roma prepared…
This year my Roma friends invited me to Sablino to celebrate the Easter. As always on this day, there were lots of music and people.
During our 15 years of cooperation with the Belarusian Human Rights Center “Viasna”, we have known our colleagues and partners – human rights defenders from Viasna – as outstanding, brave and honest professionals. This counts in particular for Ales Bialiatski,…