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…
Russia’s minority Roma population has experienced a recent wave of violent attacks and fear they may soon be deported. Link to the transcript and video on abc.net.au.
ИА REGNUM Новости reports on the press-conference in St Petersburg on December 9th. Stefania Kulaeva, head of programs of ADC Memorial, stated that in a number of schools in Russia children are being divided according to their ethnicity, which is…
Upon starting work at school №9, teachers begin to learn the previously unknown to them Roma language straight away. This is necessary, since a large number of Roma pupils attend this school. On January 30th, the school held a seminar…
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