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In June 2011 workers of the ADC Memorial learned about mass violations of foreign workers’ rights. Hired by contractors firms they work as street cleaners in the Nevsky district of Saint Petersburg.

The 34th number of the ADC Memorial Bulletin has been published. It contains:

On July 3, 2011 the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial organised a seminar within the project “Legal help and protection of national minorities in the North-Western region of Russia” (supported by SIDA). Work migrants and foreigners living in St Petersburg participated in…

On February 18, 2011 the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, met with NGO activists in Saint Petersburg. The key problems such as abuse of the right to the freedom of assembly, hate crimes and negative state’s attitude…

The French Internet blog devoted to a problem of violence in the Russian Federation, has published article about infringement of the rights of labor migrants, on materials of monitoring spent ADC Memorial http://russiaviolence.hypotheses.org/1286  

In Petersburg the independent Uzbek newspaper “Petersburg Ouse” has started to leave. The edition is addressed not only numerous Uzbek diaspora, but also other townspeople. The newspaper is issued in two languages – Russian and Uzbek. On Radio “Liberty” materials.

On December, 18th, 2010 the MEMORIAL has passed a seminar in office ADTS, devoted to xenophobia and discrimination overcoming, protection of human rights and counteraction to nationalism. Representatives of Commonwealth of youth of Dagestan in Sankt-Peteburge, journalists have taken part…

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As antifascist activists marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of the 20-year-old antifascist activist and punk musician Timur Kacharava on Saturday, they claimed that they are under increasing pressure from the police, while the threat of attacks from nationalist…

Today marks the International Day for Tolerance. ZAKS.Ru gives opinions on whether our city is more tolerant nowadays.  The representatives of national communities and experts, including from ADC “Memorial” give their opinions.    They beat less, but tolerance did not increase. http://www.zaks.ru (the…