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For the First Time: the 10th General Assembly of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum Goes Digital
On 18-22 May 2020 the 10th General Assembly (GA) of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum was held. For the first time in the Forum history, the annual conference of Forum members and supporters went fully…
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Make Discussion, Not War: Let’s Stop the War for Memory and Monuments
Download the statement These days we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic thwarted the reminder of a common victory over Nazism around the world. In addition…
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The 10th General Assembly goes digital
The General Assembly (GA) is the biggest and the most important annual convention of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum members. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s edition of the GA will be different from the…
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The Riot in Angarsk Penal Colony: Call to Conduct Public Investigation and Answer the Questions
Download the statement On 10 April 2020, numerous messages about a riot in the FKU IK-15 (Federal Government Institution, Prison Colony - 15) in Angarsk, Irkutsk region, as well as about the fire in the…
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Forum Membership Reconfirmation is Successfully Completed
Recently, we have completed the first reconfirmation procedure of the Forum participation status. 131 Members of the Forum that have been part of it for more than two years (131 organisations) have been offered to…
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A Call to Ensure Safety of Elena Milashina and Have a Proper Investigation into the Threats against Her
Download the statement The Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is outraged by the silence and nonfeasance of Russian authorities in the case of the threats expressed by Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen…
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A Pandemic Is Not an Excuse for the Violation of Fundamental Rights of Citizens in Europe
Download the statement The Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum is deeply concerned about the various violations of fundamental rights of citizens across Europe. With the global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we…
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LATEST MEMBERS NEWS
Refugees, Migrants and Coronavirus: A Massive Challenge
It seems that we will divide contemporary history into a time of before and a time of after the corona crisis. While the coronavirus is breaking up borders — of any kind — at an…
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Internet in the Shadow of the State
The first law that marked the beginning of the strict regulation of the internet in Russia will soon be seven and a half years old. Since then, dozens of new legal acts have appeared in…
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500 Words on Brexit
That ever-useful distinction between ‘ideologues’ (crudely, those who put ideas before people, whatever their motives) and ‘pragmatists’ (those who put people’s needs before ideas) seems nowhere more relevant than in Britain today. The UK has…
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Dekabristen in 2019
Can social entrepreneurs become the key players of civil society? How does volunteering contribute to regional development? What can be done to revitalise post-Soviet dormitory suburbs? How to combine activism and art? These topics were…
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World AIDS Day: Helping Communities in Order to Help Everyone
Although HIV/AIDS affects the whole of society, it will be impossible to stop the epidemic without large-scale programmes for prevention, diagnosis and treatment for the key populations. Aleksey Lakhov, deputy director of the St. Petersburg…
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Fridays for Future: We Need to Act Together – Now
On 29 November, a new round of protests organised by the Fridays for Future movement took place in different cities all over the world. On behalf of the Solidarity group of the EU-Russia Civil…
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Protests in the Czech Republic: A Perspective From Russia
Last weekend, on 16 November 2019, dissatisfied citizens gathered for large-scale demonstrations all over the Czech Republic, demanding the resignation of the sitting Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, a billionaire involved in multiple corruption scandals. The…
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#PACE Monitoring Committee requests a legal examination of the #amendments to the Russian ... #Constitution from the #VeniceCommission after a petition of Russian HR defenders and activists and supported by more than 200,000 Russian citizens: https://t.co/k4uRPGIDqR
Sergei Mokhnatkin, Russian activist and political prisoner, passed away at 66 years old. He has died... of heavy spinal injuries inflicted on him in prison. Our deepest condolences to his family and close ones.
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Журналист Илья Азар не совершал никакого нарушения ... закона о массовых акциях, который в России носит откровенно запретительный характер.
Российские власти должны прекратить использовать пандемию в качестве предлога для дискриминации, репрессий и цензуры. https://t.co/TnM0cxnx9F
