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On Monday, February 21, 2011 at 13.30 in the Independent press-centre (Moscow, Prechistenka, 17/9) a press-conference “What will the art group Voina receive – state award or prison sentence?” will take place. Human rights activists and art historians will discuss…

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The publication for the numerous Uzbek community and residents of the city will be edited in Russian and Uzbek. The editor-in-chief of the “Petersburg Uz” newspaper, Ravshanbek Kurbanov: This newspaper is probably a call of the times. Many migrants with…

In 2010, volunteer from the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial, Birte Lampart, suggested a new and unexpected initiative: she invited her friends, who practice capoeira, to work with Roma children – the residents of the settlement of Peri. Capoeira is something between…

On February, 15th, 2010 the seminar-training “The Rights of the Child and Tolerance at School” for 8th grade pupils from school № 228 of Admiralteysky district, St.-Petersburg took place in Pushkin’s library. The seminar was prepared and held by the…

I moved to Russia from Kazakhstan and prepared all the documents to apply for Russian citizenship. I got registered in the migration office with the help of a mediator company (there are plenty of them now). The company Imperiya Prava…

The Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial has launched a new project on “Legal help to ethnic Koreans from the former Soviet republics” (together with the cultural autonomy of the Koreans in St Petersburg and with support of the consulate general of South…

7-12 November, 2010 the children from Chechnya accompanied by their teachers from the schools of Grozny, the capital of the republic, and the village of Novye Aldy visited St Petersburg. They really wanted to see this beautiful city.

I work in the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial, so every day I meet people who were cheated by mediator companies which issued them fake documents or by employers who did not pay the wages. And of course I also meet people…

On this day, in memory of the antifascists Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, human rights activists oppose the increasing threat of fascism and the inadequate response of authorities towards protests. Two years ago the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist…