Category: Новости

23 / 02 / 2023
Russian passport has become a “toxica asset”. 2022 migration statisitcs: 277 official “refugees”, decreased interest in RF citizenship
The total amount of people granted refugee status during 2022 (12 people) as well as the number of people with this status at the end of the year (277) are new anti-record numbers in the history of the Russian Federation. Never before in Russia has there been such a small number of the refugees granted recognition by the authorities
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24 / 12 / 2022
Svetlana Gannushkina has been added to the list of “foreign agents”
The Ministry of Justice has included Svetlana Gannushkina, Chairman of the Civic Assistance Committee and a Board Member of the HRВС Memorial, to the list of foreign agents
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12 / 12 / 2022
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia published migration statistics for 3rd quarter of 2022
Five foreigners were granted “refugee” status, 28.5 thousand people were granted temporary asylum and a quarter of a million people were admitted to Russian citizenship
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12 / 12 / 2022
Civic Assistance Committee Has Moved
We have moved to a new office. We provide social, legal, humanitarian and medical assistance here: ul. 3-ya Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 3, building 2.
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07 / 10 / 2022
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Memorial*, Centre for Civil Liberties and Ales Bialiatski
The Nobel Committee announced the laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022. It was awarded to the Russian human rights organisation Memorial, which had been liquidated in Russia by a court order, the Ukrainian human rights organisation Centre for Civil Liberties and Ales Bialiatski, founder of the Belarusian human rights organisation Viasna
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06 / 10 / 2022
Anna Politkovskaya Award presented to Svetlana Gannushkina
The international human rights organisation Reach All Women in WAR presented the 2022 Anna Politkovskaya Award to the Chair of the Civic Assistance Committee Svetlana Gannushkina and Ukrainian midwife Tetiana Sokolova “for their bravery in defying injustice, violence and war crimes in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine”
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21 / 07 / 2022
Status That Never Existed: History Of Political Asylum In Russia
In his report On the Status of Political Asylum in Russia, Konstantin Troitsky, analyst of the Civic Assistance Committee, tells the history of the political asylum status, analyzes the normative documents that define it, and cites famous cases of applying for this status.
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21 / 06 / 2022
“World Refugee Day: how you can help”: photos from the event
On the eve of World Refugee Day, employees and volunteers of the “Civic Assistance” Committee participated in an event organized by “Takie dela” media on June 18th. This event was organized by the media in the support of the Committee. More than a hundred guests gathered in the inclusive cultural center “Tverskaya 15” to listen to the discussion, visit a photo exhibition about the Committee applicants and bring humanitarian aid for refugees as well
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04 / 04 / 2022
Statement on the Incident in Bucha
The Civic Assistance Committee mourns victims in the city of Bucha and consider what happened another tragedy and our disgrace
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10 / 01 / 2022
Refugees from Afghanistan: Statistical Review
How many afghan refugees relocated to Iran and USA? Is […]
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