Can European Values Win People’s Hearts and Minds?
Upon request by the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum e.V., Katarzyna Batko-Tołuć, Programming Director at the Citizens Network Watchdog (Warsaw, Poland), reflects on the European citizenship and presents the concept of the European Values Instrument (EVI): Last October I was invited to Brussels to take part in the Active Citizenship Week. […]
Nina Berezner: ‘In Europe, Very Few People Spoke of Chechnya before the Huge Scandal about the Infringement of the Rights of the LGBT Community and Torture’
Interview with Nina Berezner, President at D’est (Paris, France)
Sergei Medvedev: ‘We Searched for Alternative Ways, Tried to Involve Young People’
Interview with Sergei Medvedev, Board Chair at Dekabristen e.V. (Berlin, Germany)
Sergei Shapkhaev: “Right to a Healthy Environment Is Also an Indefeasible Human Right”
Interview with Sergei Shapkhaev, Head of the Buryat Regional Union on Lake Baikal (Ulan-Ude, Russia)
Catalonia: How Things Came to This Point and How to Move Forward
Upon request by the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, Moisés Jomarrón de la Cerda, Development Manager at the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin, Germany), reflects on the circumstances of the Catalan referendum. Moisés Jomarrón has authored this essay in his personal capacity. The opinions expressed are his own and do […]
Simon Cosgrove: ‘The Soviet Phrase “Druzhba Narodov” Comes to Mind, “Friendship of People” in the True Sense of the Word’
Interview with Simon Cosgrove, CEO at Rights in Russia, member of the Forum’s Steering Committee (Ilminster, UK)
Štefan Čok: ‘The Past Is Always at the Centre of Political Conflicts’
Interview with Štefan Čok, Member at Memorial Italia (Milan, Italy)
Biodiversity in Standards and Labels for the Food Industry
Upon request by the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, Stefan Hörmann, Team Leader of the Department for Business and Biodiversity and Head of the Bonn Office at the Global Nature Fund (GNF, Germany), reports on the on-going Project "Biodiversity in Standards and Labels for the Food Industry" having been implemented in […]
Svetlana Makovetskaya: ‘We Just Need to Be Interesting’
Interview with Svetlana Makovetskaya, Director at the GRANI Centre (Perm, Russia)
Endowments for Social, Environmental, and Human Rights NGOs
Upon request by the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum, Oleg Sharipkov, Head of the "Civil Unity" Foundation, tells about a successful pratice of setting up an endowment in Russia: Few people know that there has been a law on endowments for non-profit organisations in Russia since 2007. After having read the […]