Feedback “…with further deportation from the Russian Federation” – this is now the usual ending of court rulings on administrative violations of migration regulations committed by foreign nationals in Saint Petersburg. On August 9, 2013 changes to the existing regulations on…
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Starting 2005 the long-established October Revolution day (November 7), which had been celebrated by several generations of Soviet and post-Soviet people, was replaced in Russia with the Day of National Unity (November 4) to commemorate liberation of Moscow from the…
10.11.2014
Roma children’s right to education: various practices, but the same discriminatory approach
When signing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a state acknowledges at the international level the right of each child to education. Concrete essence of each right evolves and becomes more detailed as international standards, practice of international…
UNITED has held its 48th conference on October 13-18, 2014 in Georgia. The conference was devoted to the topic “What Divides Europe? Bridging Traditional Values and Fundamental Rights”. Activists of NGOs from over 30 countries, including Russia, took part in…
21.10.2014
OSCE representatives on tolerance and non-discrimination meet Russian human rights activists
On October 15, 2014 ADC “Memorial”, Information and analytical center “Sova”, LGBT initiative “Vykhod” (“Way Out”) took part in a meeting in Moscow with three OSCE Chairperson’s Personal Representatives on combatting discrimination and promoting tolerance as part the latter’s two-day…
ADC “Memorial” has obtained a copy of a striking document – a denunciation written in the name of Roma people from the Leningrad Region to the Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika. We think there is merit in publicizing this document…