People with Down syndrome attend abstract painting workshop The “Energy of Colour” workshop was held as part of Museum Night at the Educational Centre of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. 30.05.2023 The workshop was held on 20 May by artist Alla Reshetnikova, and was open to allcomers. The foundations Love Syndrome and Downside Up …

Ukraine’s Diia platform sets the global gold standard for e-government Published by UkraineAlert, May 30, 2023 By Anatoly Motkin   Several thousand people gathered at the Warner Theater in Washington DC on May 23 for a special event dedicated to Ukraine’s award-winning e-governance platform Diia. “Ukrainians are not only fighting. For four years behind the …

Bill to criminalise working for unregistered foreign civil society organisations (CSOs) A new article in the Criminal Code provides for a maximum sentence of three years in prison. 29.05.2023 On Monday, the State Duma committee for public building work and legislation recommended that the chamber pass the bill on first reading. Earlier, a group of …

Yandex donates more than 300 million roubles to civil society organisations Yandex has published the annual report of its foundation Help at Hand.  29.05.2023 “In 2022, we focused on developing our programmes. Thanks to the support of Yandex users, we managed to raise twice as much money compared to last year. We organised more than …

Roundtable dialogue on humanitarian support for persons with disabilities in Ukraine 23 May 2023 News release by WHO Ukraine The war in Ukraine has posed new challenges for persons with disabilities living in Ukraine and, with the thousands of injuries sustained since the beginning of the war, the United Nations (UN) expects this population to …

A working group to improve CSO legislation is being created   23.05.2023   Elena Topoleva, Chair of the Public Chamber’s Commission for the Development of the Non-Profit Sector and Support for CSOs, has been speaking about the need for further work in this area.   The Public Chamber’s website has announced the formation of a …

Actors from the Patient Zero television series have recorded an audio fairy-tale for children living with HIV   22.05.2023   The idea for doing a voice-over for the Droplets of Health fairy tale has come from the Children+ charity.   Actors from the Patient Zero series, the first episode of which was shown last spring, …

Russia to create a register of citizens in need   19.05.2023   Tatyana Golikova, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, has said that the register will make it possible to “accurately identify citizens in need” and ascertain whether this data matches information held by Rosstat.   According to TASS, the register will be created this year and …

Study by Children’s Rights Commissioner: 40% of children placed in shelters at parents’ request   17.05.2023   Using data from 14 pilot regions, officials have determined why and at what age children most often end up in shelters.   The Children’s Rights Commissioner’s office has released the results of a comprehensive study aimed at understanding …

Government boosts support for organisations of disabled individuals   15.05.2023   The Cabinet of Ministers expanded the list of goods and services for which organisations of people with disabilities are given priority in public procurement.   The Cabinet of Ministers has recently taken a significant step by broadening the range of goods and services in …