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Assistant for the HERstory Programme
Job Offer The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (CSF) is looking for an assistant for the HERstory programme who will be based at the CSF Secretariat in Berlin. The position will start on September 1st until December 31st 2022, with option of extension,…
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Meeting on disinformation took place in Warsaw
On 4-8 July 2022, the Forum Working Group on Civic Education held a meeting in Warsaw dedicated to dealing with disinformation. The meeting participants discussed strategies to counter the spread of false information, the role…
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Internship Announcement at the CURE Campaign
The CURE Campaign is looking for an intern who would join our international team between 15 August and 1 September 2022 for the period of three months. The internship will take place mostly online, the intern will be ideally based…
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Confronting Memories experts met in Chișinău
On 29 June - 3 July 2022, the Forum’s historical memory and education programme Confronting Memories hosted a meeting in Chișinău, Moldova as part of its project “Talking History, Talking Future”. The international expert group of…
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A Call to Release Alexey Gorinov and to Stop Political Pressure Against Local Opposition Politicians in Russia
Download the statement Statement by the Working Group “Citizens in local self-governance” and the Board of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum The members of the Working Group “Citizens in local self-governance” and the Board of…
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Working Group on Public and Inclusive Health conducted a study tour to Istanbul
On 26-28 June 2022, a study tour of the Forum Working Group on Public and Inclusive Health to Istanbul (Turkey) took place. The meeting was dedicated to how to build effective interaction in the face…
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Summer School “War, Gender and Precarity” took place in Moldova
From 11 May to 24 May 2022, 27 participants from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Netherlands, Romania, Russia and Switzerland took part in the Summer School “War, Gender and Precarity” in Chișinău and in Molovata in…
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MEMBERS NEWS, OPINIONS AND IDEAS
Schengen Zone: Are the Borders Back?
Goran Miletic, Director, Europe and MENA Department and Deputy Global Programme Director, Civil Rights Defenders I remember very well March 1995 when Benelux countries, together with Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal, opened their borders in…
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Online conference “Citizen Science 2.0” will take place on July 28
The concluding conference of the “Citizen Science 2.0” project will take place on 28 July 2022. The conference will be dedicated to summing up the annual “Citizen Science 2.0” project the participants of which: Drew…
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ECtHR and “foreign agents”: the answer that has been waiting for too long
Natalia Taubina, Public Verdict Foundation, former Board member of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum On 14 June 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on the complaint “Ecodefense and Others v. Russia”. It…
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The fourth “The Last Address” plaque will be inaugurated in Germany
On 8 July 2022, the initiative "The Last Address" of the German Memorial will inaugurate the fourth commemorative plaque in Germany. The plaque commemorates Fritz Storch, who was an accountant in Berlin. He was arrested…
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Solidarity prevails: the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Hungary
Anikó Bakonyi, Board Co-Chair of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, Hungarian Helsinki Committee The concept of ‘welcoming refugees’ was not part of official Hungarian policies during the past decade, rather the opposite. The Hungarian government…
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What has happened to independent media in Russia since the war with Ukraine started
Kirill Artemenko, director of “Bumaga” media outlet (Russia) 12 March 2022 was the first Saturday since the war began that I decided to get enough sleep. I didn’t manage it, however: the website of “Bumaga”,…
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