Theme: detention centre

After the president issued orders regulating the status of foreign nationals during the pandemic, Russia’s Federal Bailiffs Service (FBS) took steps last summer and fall to expel many foreign nationals being held in Centers for Temporary Detention of Foreign Nationals…

Did you fall in a hole?/I did./Are you sitting in a hole?/I am./ Are you waiting for a ladder?/I am./Is the hole damp?/It is./ How’s your head?/Whole./So you’re alive?/I am./Well, off I go, then! Oleg Grigoryev Centers for the Temporary…

On International Migrants Day, 18 December, it is important to highlight the problems which foreigners faced in Russia during the pandemic in 2020. They include not only loss of income and difficulties with a return to the homeland, but also…

The coronovirus pandemic worsened the situation of many vulnerable groups, but it hit migrant workers especially hard. Thousands lost their jobs and housing were unable to return home and were forced to survive in tent camps, and some were imprisoned indefinitely in deportation centers (FNDC).

Deficiencies in the Russian legislation create conditions for systemic discrimination against foreigners and stateless persons, as the courts rule on their expulsion from the country even in cases where such expulsion is not possible, which in turn leads to long…

At the end of June 2020, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in cooperation with lawyer Olga Tseytlina managed to secure the release of two more stateless persons (natives of Kyrgyzstan) from temporary detention centre for foreign nationals. Both of these stateless persons…