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As you may know, in April this year the Russian president signed a decree on the merger of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) with the Interior Ministry. In accordance with this decree, FMS was abolished as a separate agency and…

In mid-summer 2016 the law “On the basis of the system of crime prevention” came into force. If understood literally, this law should be useful for prevention of crime and protection of people in difficult situations, such as homeless or…

It is difficult to watch the recent videos of pogrom of Roma houses in Loschinovka (Odessa region, Ukraine), as so strikingly similar scenes from the past century come to mind. That’s exactly how it starts – groups of people head…

August 2 is the International Day of Remembrance of the Romani Holocaust. On the night of August 2-3, 1944 2897 prisoners Zigeunerlager (“Gypsy Camp”) in Auschwitz were killed in gas chambers. Prior to that, on May 16, 1944, an earlier…

Civil society faces various difficulties in many countries of the world: various states use a different means to complicate the work of NGOs and independent human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and experts. Sometimes the authorities act boldly and simply do…

In recent years, under the pretext of combating terrorism and extremism in Russia a number of laws, including the infamous legislative package proposed by State Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya, were adopted in order to toughen punishment for “extremist” crimes. Meanwhile,…