The bits and pieces of information on the persecution of gay people in Chechnya that trickled down to the media scare one with the scale, purposefulness and somewhat radical brutality of violence against the victims. At the same time…
The festive “Women’s Day” is over and the gloomy days of late winter follow one after another, as March in Russia has the same distant relation to real spring as women’s rights have little to do with a strange tradition…
Because of a recent attempt by the Russian Orthodox Church to seize St. Petersburg St. Isaac’s Cathedral in February 2017, many people remembered the events of a century ago. The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church also apparently considered the…
Stefania Kulaeva What purpose does withdrawal of children from the family by the state serves, that of protecting the rights of the child or the suppression of the rights of family? In what cases public guardianship authorities can exercise their…
Olga Abramenko On December 16, 2016 members of the “Aboriginal Forum”, an informal association of experts representing indigenous peoples of the Russian Far North, Siberia and Far East, reported that the director of the Centre for Assistance to Small-numbered Indigenous…
Stefania Kulayeva As time goes by, more and more new details become known of how police stormed a house where two desperate students barricaded themselves with a gun in the village of Strugi Krasnye in the Pskov region. It turned…
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