Theme: NGO

On June 8, 2015, ADC Memorial participated in a discussion about justice and the situation of human rights defenders. This discussion was organized by the ISHR and the British mission at the UN in Geneva. This event was timed to…

Exactly a year ago, on April 8, 2014, Constitutional court of the Russian Federation de facto supported orderly destruction of civil society by the Russian authorities by declining to sustain appeal of Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin regarding violation of constitutional…

In March 2015 amendments to the law on non-governmental organizations, which make it possible to exclude NGOs from the register of “foreign agents” and which were long sought by moderate critics of the law on NGOs, finally came into force….

As a member of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum and a colleague of “Soldiers’ mothers of Petersburg” NGO (Saint Petersburg, Russia) ADC “Memorial” has joined the common resolution of the forum demanding to end prosecution of independent NGOs in Russia…

Stephania Kulaeva: “Our group uncovered ethnic profiling by police and discrimination against minority groups in Russia. So Putin’s “foreign agent” law was applied to take us down.” To read Opinion: We fought the law but the law won – labelled…

St. Petersburg-based human rights organization ADC Memorial on Friday became the first major Russian nongovernmental organization to be liquidated for refusing to register as a “foreign agent” with the Justice Ministry. With its disbandment of ADC Memorial, the ministry has…