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In August 2021, amendments to the Law on the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation and other legislation regulating the legal status of stateless people came into force (Law No. 22-FZ of February 24, 2021, entered into…

On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrated on the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” remembers the genocide of the Romani people in the 1930-1940s, which was a part of…

The events in Kazakhstan have put activists from protest movements, independent journalists, and human rights defenders at risk. Naturally, their situation is concerning and has become the main focus of international organizations and the media. But the voices of those…

ADC Memorial draw the attention of the UN  Human Rights structures to the problem of new wave of the violations of the Pamiris rights in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan.

Human rights defenders draw the attention of the UN  Human Rights structures to the problem of new wave of the violations of the Pamiris rights in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast of Tajikistan. In late November 2021 in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast,…

What began as peaceful protests against socio-economic inequality swiftly turned into violence facilitated by Kazakhstan’s internal security forces and troops of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), amounting to violations of the right to life and liberty, as well as…

Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…

ADC Memorial has reported to the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation on the violation of the rights of the indigenous peoples of southern Siberia to safe drinking water and sanitation. Reports from civil…

International Memorial Board Statetment On 28 December 2021 Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, referred to a missing ‘foreign agent’ designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal pretext, though, and the court hearings showed that…