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Action alert! Call for solidarity with Russian drug policy activist Irina...
The Russian drug policy activist Irina Teplinskaya had a tablet of methadone planted on her as she recently re-entered Russia. This incident happened on the 18th of August 2011, at the Khrabrovo...
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Activist Irina Teplinskaya, who recently filed a complaint against Russia to...
On coming back home to Kaliningrad, after a three-month stay in Ukraine, harm reduction activist Irina Teplinskaya was planted with drugs during the inspection at customs and border control. Irina...
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Andrey Rylkov Foundation web-site banned by the Federal Drug Control Service...
06.02.2012, Moscow The website of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (ARF) was blocked on Friday, 3 February 2012 by order of the Federal Drug Control Services (FDCS) “due to...
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The International AIDS Society (IAS) responds to the irresponsible closure of...
9 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland. Given its long-standing interest in the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), the IAS expresses its profound concern towards the abrupt...
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“Why are they bullying us?” Open letter from Anya Sarang
By Anya Sarang At the end of last year, the authorities started to show a bit too much interest in our NGO, the “Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice” – interest of a rather strange...
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“Foreign agents”: controversial bill on NGOs approved by parliament
Russian Parliament has approved a draft bill that establishes special rules for NGOs receiving foreign funding and mandates them to report to the authorities as “foreign agents”. The draft legislation...
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Denis Matveev should be released and accorded a right to compensation for damage
By Michail Golichenko Denis Matveev should be released and accorded a right to compensation for damage – this is an opinion by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Human Rights Council on...
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London School of Economics Report Calls for New Approaches to Drug Policy
By Phillip Smith A report from the London School of Economics released Monday night outlines the enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage from the war on drugs and calls for new, evidence-based...
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Press-release: Andrey Rylkov Foundation being labeled by the Russian...
Press-release By the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice regarding its inclusion in to the list of the organizations carrying out functions of a foreign agent. Citizens, keep alert...
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The charges against Andrey Rylkov Foundation have been dismissed
Text translated by Daria Mogucheva for ARF Moscow, August 30 – RAPSI, Eugenia Sokolova. According to the RAPSI reporter in the courtroom, the Khoroshevskiy District Court of Moscow has dismissed the...
View ArticleMoscow City Court is on NGO side
Translation from Russian: Daria Mogucheva According to the Club of NGO Lawyers which provides comprehensive legal support to Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (ARF) the Moscow City...
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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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