Polina Filippova: “Civil Society in the Shape We Have It Now Is One of the Best Inventions of the 20th Century”
Interview with Polina Filippova, Director of Communications and Head of the Volunteer Centre at the Sakharov Centre, Board member at the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (Moscow, Russia)
Alexander Kolotov: “When Talking on Felling Trees and Air Pollution, Nuclear Facilities Might Seem a Rather Insignificant Issue”
Interview with Alexander Kolotov, Director at the NGO "PLOTINA" (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
The 30th Anniversary of the Society for the Development of German-Russian Relations (Münster/ Münsterland)
The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum congratulates the Society for the Development of German-Russian Relations (Münster/ Münsterland) with its 30th anniversary and published on this occasion a flashback by Karl Wolff, one of the organisation’s founders: In spring 1988, in a wave of unravelling changes, four Russian language professors, Dr Helmut […]
Anikó Bakonyi: ‘The Government Keeps the Topic on the Agenda, As If Hungary Were at War’
Interview with Anikó Bakonyi, Advocacy and Project Officer, Refugee Programme at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (Budapest, Hungary)
The Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and the Reconciliation Process between Societies in Russia and Ukraine
Upon request of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, Karsten Fledelius, President at the Danish Helsinki Committee (DHC), and Carl Erik Foverskov, DHC Project Manager, outline the activities of the organisation with Russia and Ukraine: The Danish Helsinki Committee has a long tradition of cooperation with civic organisations and institutions from […]
#TrumpPutin in Helsinki
Upon request of the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, Laura Lodenius, Director at the Peace Union of Finland, reflects on the major issues and consequences of the Trump-Putin Summit on 16 July 2018 in Helsinki: The US President Donald Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Helsinki on 16 […]
Georgi Sitnikov: “We Do Not Plan to Stop Attempts to Change the Regulation of the Treatment of Animals”
Interview with Georgi Sitnikov, Founder of the NGO "For the Animal Protection" (Perm, Russia)
Eyes on Russia behind the Glam
Bianca Constantin: ‘I Wish People, Especially in the EU, Knew More about Challenges the Eastern Europe and Russia Are Facing Nowadays’
Interview with Bianca Constantin, Project Manager at INLAR (Bucharest, Romania)
Dmitri Shabelnikov: ‘The Overwhelming Majority Understands Now What Pro Bono Is about and Why It is Needed’
Interview with Dmitri Shabelnikov, Director at the PILnet Moscow Branch, Editor of the "Legal Dialogue" Journal