$6.2 million UNHCR's financial requirements 2023 (1) 93% funded (2) (1) The financial requirements for Russian Federation are those of the operation's regular programme. (2) The percentage funded...
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IFRC statement on Russian Red Cross [EN/RU/UK]
We are aware that several articles about the Russian Red Cross and other components of the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement have been published in the media on 27 February. We are now...
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UNHCR Russian Federation Fact Sheet, September 2023
UNHCR has maintained a presence in the Russian Federation (RF) since 1992, and currently operates through its Country Office in Moscow. UNHCR works to ensure forcibly displaced and stateless people...
Russie : La répression atteint de nouveaux sommets
Aucune place pour la dissidence et une opposition poussée à l’exil ou derrière les barreaux (Berlin, 11 janvier 2024) – Pendant la deuxième année de son invasion à grande échelle de l’Ukraine, le...
Russia: New Heights on Repression [EN/RU]
No Space For Dissent, Opposition Pushed Into Exile or Behind Bars (Berlin, January 11, 2024) – During the second year of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government increased war...
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Belarus and Russia: IFRC network mid-year report, January – June 2023 (14 December 2023)
Context The humanitarian consequences stemming from the escalated armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the first quarter of 2022 continue to dominate the operational landscape of the...
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Belgorod: Supporting people displaced by violence [EN/RU]
In June, Gevork’s family house in Novaya Tavolzhanka, a village in the Russia-Ukraine border region, was destroyed during massive shelling and bombardment in the area. Now, the 31-year-old is staying...
Situation of human rights in the Russian Federation - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova (A/HRC/54/54) (Advance edited version / Unofficial Russian version) [EN/RU]
Human Rights Council Fifty-fourth session 11 September–6 October 2023 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Summary The present report is the first to be...
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Russian Court decisions on laws discrediting armed forces a ‘new low’ in clampdown on expression: UN experts
GENEVA (28 August 2023) – UN experts* today expressed grave concern about recent decisions by Russia’s Constitutional Court to dismiss challenges to the constitutionality of the country’s legislative...
Russia - Floods (media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 14 August 2023)
The remnants of tropical cyclone KHANUN, which made landfall over the south-eastern coast of South Korea on 11 August, have caused floods in Primorye Region, southern Far Eastern Federal District...
Russia: UN experts raise alleged targeting of anti-torture NGO by Russian Government
GENEVA (23 June 2023) – UN experts* have expressed their concerns and asked the Russian Government for information on allegations that an anti-torture NGO in the country was targeted in law...
First UN human rights expert on Russian Federation takes office [EN/RU]
GENEVA (12 May 2023) – Mariana Katzarova started work as the first UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation on 1 May 2023, following her appointment by the...
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Moscow Mechanism: Report on violations and abuses of international humanitarian and human rights law, war crimes and crimes against humanity, related to the forcible transfer and/or deportation of Ukrainian children to the Russian Federation
I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On 30 March 2023, the delegations of 45 participating States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), after consultation with...
Russia: UN expert submits amicus brief in case challenging dissolution of Moscow Helsinki Group
GENEVA (27 April 2023) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor yesterday submitted an amicus curiae brief to a court in Russia to support the Moscow...
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Ukraine and Impacted Countries Crisis - Emergency Appeal n° MGR65002, Federation-wide National Society Response Plan - Russia
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY / TRANSITION STRATEGY Russian Red Cross (RRC) will continue providing support to displaced people from Ukraine staying on the territory of the Russian Federation. The area of...
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Russian Federation: UN experts alarmed by recruitment of prisoners by “Wagner Group”
GENEVA (10 March 2023) – The recruitment of prisoners serving sentences in Russian correctional facilities for the private military and security contractor known as the “Wagner Group” was alarming,...
Russia: UN experts alarmed by escalation of crackdown on civil society
GENEVA (27 January 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over the escalating crackdown against civil society by Russian authorities after the decision by the Moscow city court this week to...
GIEWS Country Brief: The Russian Federation 13-January-2023
HIGHLIGHTS Slightly below-average area planted with 2023 winter crops Record high cereal production obtained in 2022 Total cereal exports forecast above average in 2022/23 Export prices of wheat...
Russia: ‘Immunity Law’ Set for Crimes in Ukraine
(Berlin, December 20, 2022) – Russia’s lower house of parliament has adopted a bill that would provide effective immunity for certain crimes committed in occupied areas of Ukraine, in violation of...
Russia: Proposed bill that removes criminal liability for war crimes is ‘impunity made law’
Responding to the adoption in the first reading by the Russian State Duma of a bill that effectively removes criminal liability for crimes committed by Russian forces and their proxies in the...