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Interview with Anna Sarang on foreign agent law in Russia
We already wrote earlier about the so-called “foreign agents law” in Russia and its enforcement on HIV service organizations. This time we talked to Anna Sarang, director of the Andrey Rylkov...
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Foreign powers attack Russia with sterile needles – or do they?
Dawid Krawczyk: So, are you a foreign agent, or not? Ivan Varentsov: No, I’m not. The Russian Ministry of Justice claims that you are, though. Our organization, the Andrey Rylkov Foundation has been...
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“Foreign Agent” strikes back
lll The Russian government began its attack on non-profit organizations working in the field of HIV prevention in February, 2016. In just 6 months, the Ministry of Justice managed to include to the...
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A Hyperlink to Absurdity
Text: Tanya Lokshina, HRW Russia Program Director “We actually thought we had ‘mopped up’ our website and got rid of those ‘undesirable’ hyperlinks, but we missed one,” Anya Sarang told me, chuckling...
View Article50,000 rubles (US$862) for a 2011 hyperlink to an undesirable organization
Translated by: Baira Nokhaeva Judicial District No.427 of the Shchukino district of the city of Moscow fined the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (ARF) 50,000 rubles (US$862) with...
View ArticleRussia: Punished Over Hyperlinks
(Berlin) – The Russian government has intensified enforcement of the country’s repressive legislation on foreign “undesirable” organizations to intimidate Russian nationals and groups, Human Rights...
View ArticleRussia: New assault on independent media, NGOs and activists through...
A wave of unfair, excessive and suffocating fines levied on independent Russian media, NGOs and human rights defenders represent a new assault on human rights in Russia, Amnesty International said...
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Russia’s Harm Reductionists Are Once Again Under Attack
Text: Niko Vorobjov \ Photo: Ivan Ridm “It used to be that you’d be walking on your way to score, and if you’d see a policeman, you’d give them three hryvnia [about 10 cents], and they’d tell you to...
View ArticleIn Russia, Helping People with Diabetes and People Who Use Drugs is “Foreign...
Text: Yulia Gorbunova Last week, a Russian group in Saratov, that for three decades has helped people living with diabetes, announced it was shutting down. According to the group’s leader, Larisa...
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Russia Is Punishing People for Helping Drug Users
Text: Niko Vorobjov Last month, a Moscow court ordered the city’s only drug harm reduction NGO, the Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF), to pay 800,000 roubles (£9,575) for publishing what it called “drug...
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