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To the memory of our colleagues : statement of Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” On the 14th of June, the Saint-Petersburg city court sentenced the murderers of Nikolay Girenko, researcher, expert and defender of the rights of ethnical minorities. Voyevodin, organizer of…

Social activists Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev not released by court On January 14 the Moscow district court of Saint Petersburg examined the objections submitted by the lawyers of Vorotnikov and Nikolayev on prolonging preliminary custody of the artists. The…

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH, Paris) Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights (Moscow) Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” (Saint Petersburg) PRESS RELEASE 13 February 2009 RUSSIA’S FIRST UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE MOST SERIOUS HUMAN…

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” 

Statement on the 19th of January 2011 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.

Pacta sund servanda (“agreements must be kept”) is one of the principles of international law prescribing observance of the international treaties by states.