Russia

A recent attack on a participant of a peaceful action on LGBT rights has been met with legal consequences for the first time in Russia. Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the ruling and hopes that the ve...

A judge from the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic has ordered the withdrawal of a case after being blackmailed. This is the first time ever that a judge in Chechnya has publicly spoke out regardi...

Civil Rights Defenders condemns the brutal violence at the LGBT meeting “Rainbow Coffee” in St Petersburg this week. Two persons where badly injured by antigay attackers. Aggression and violent attack...

From 19–28 September, the fifth Queer Culture Festival will be held in St. Petersburg. The annual festival has been visited by thousands of people over the years. Civil Rights Defenders has supported ...

From the 19th-28th September, the fifth Queer Culture Festival (Queerfest) will be held in St. Petersburg. The annual festival has been visited by thousands of people over the years. Civil Rights Defe...

Over 2.000 immigrants, allegedly without documents, have been detained in Moscow and more than 500 are currently kept in a detention camp expecting deportation. “Attacks against the most vulnerable gr...

Journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev was murdered early in the morning of 9 July, close to Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev was a local correspondent of the news portal Caucasian...

Coming Out, one of Russia’s most prominent LGBT organisations and a partner of Civil Rights Defenders has been labeled a “foreign agent” by a court in St. Petersburg and fined with an equivalent of 12...

On Tuesday 11 June, the Russian Duma passed legal amendments prohibiting “propaganda” of non-traditional sexual relationships among minors. The changes are part of a larger campaign to restrict human ...

Three United Nations independent human rights experts express serious concern at the “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” brought about by the implementation in the Russian Federation ...