Other publications & reports
Please see below for links to relevant articles on civil society, health and social welfare in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA)
Ukrainian and foreign experts recently published a study into the Mental Health of Adolescents Exposed to the War in Ukraine. Their findings in this study of 8096 Ukrainian adolescents residing in Ukraine and abroad were that adolescents exposed to the war were more likely to screen positive for psychiatric conditions. Read the report here. October 2024
Andrey Kurkov is probably the best-known living Ukrainian writer outside his own country, and especially in the UK. Read a review of his latest book Our Daily War by BEARR Trustee Janet Gunn here. October 2024.
Improving dementia care for Jewish communities in the post-Soviet region: an article by Beth Saffer, Head of Older Peoples Programmes at World Jewish Relief. October 2024
In June, Elena Kostyuchenko was awarded the 2024 Pushkin House Prize for her collection of reportage and personal essays I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country. The same month saw the publication of Take My Grief Away: Voices from the War in Ukraine by Katerina Gordeeva. Read a review of these two books by BEARR Trustee Sam Thorne here. August 2024
BEARR reports from the conference ‘The Hidden Wounds of War’ held in Kaunas, Lithuania on 21-23 May, 2024 and organised by by the Head of the Sakharov Centre in Kaunas (and BEARR patron) Professor Robert van Voren. For details click here. June 2024
Georgia’s new law on “transparency of foreign influence” and its incompatibility with international human rights standards: an article by Mariam Uberi about this controversy, published on 22 May 2024 by the Foreign Policy Centre. June 2024
Book by Anna Shevchenko Around the War in Twenty Stories – Ukrainian Tales of Hope, Humanity and Humour tells personal and true stories of ordinary Ukrainians who stayed, fled or relocated inside their own country when Russia’s violent attack struck in the early morning of 24 February 2022. Read the book review by BEARR Trustee Janet Gunn here. April 2024
BEARR Special Adviser Armorer Wason reports from the King’s College London event “Rethinking resilience: men and conflict trauma in Ukraine” Moderated by Lt Gen Dr Martin Bricknell. April 2024
Daryl-Ann Hardman reports on the remarkable story of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice (BCH) and her involvement in its development as Chairman of the Friends of the BCH. March 2024
Importance of community-based and peer-led mental health support in conflict and post-conflict countries: a briefing by Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic of the University of Sussex on lessons for Ukraine from experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following her presentation at The BEARR Trust conference in November 2023. For the briefing click here. March 2024
The Armenian Church in London has been supporting voluntary work by the Church in Armenia to provide financial and emotional help to people displaced from the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which the Armenians call Artsakh. The Church kindly provided a video informing about their activities. February 2024
The Halo Trust, a charity founded in 1988 and registered in the UK and USA has been demining in conflict and post-conflict zones all over the world. It has kindly provided an article about its work in Ukraine for the BEARR Trust. August 2023
A Baku-based think tank, the Center for Economic and Social Development has published recommendations on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the post-Soviet space. August 2023
Book Review: “Grey Bees” by Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov. (First published in Russian by Folio, Moscow, in 2018). Translated by Boris Dralyuk. August 2021.
A research paper by John Lough, “Ukraine’s system of crony capitalism – the challenge of dismantling ‘systema’” published by Chatham House on 1 July 2021, has a chapter on corruption in the healthcare sector. July 2021
BEARR trustee and associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, Dr Charlie Walker writes about young care leavers in Russia. June 2021
Professor Christopher J Gerry, director of Russian and East European Studies, University of Oxford, on Putin’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. April 2021
Article by Daryl-Ann Hardman, a founding BEARR trustee and Chairwoman of Friends of the Belarusian Children’s Hospice (UK), on training of medics in palliative care for children in Belarus, which continues despite the pandemic. April 2021
Review by BEARR’s Chairman, Nicola Ramsden, of Dr Harald Lipman’s “Memories of Moscow: Memoirs of a Medical Diplomat”. February 2021
Major report published in 2020 on the state of civil society in Russia from the Institute of Modern Russia: “RUSSIA UNDER PUTIN: 20 YEARS OF BATTLING OVER CIVIL SOCIETY” – read it here.
Report by Maryna Parfenchuk, Joint MA in European and Global Affairs, on Statelessness in Ukraine. September 2020
Judith Pallot, PI “Gulagechoes”on Lessons of the Recent Past: From Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in Russia’s Prisons. October 2020
Advice from Age International on helping elderly people in the COVID-19 crisis. March 2020
Report by Robert Wragg for Ipsos MORI on OSCE Research on Violence Against Women and Girls in Ukraine and Moldova. April 2020
Charlie Walker, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton, on Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Engaging Men in the Gender Equality Agenda. January 2020
https://bearr.org/2020/06/13/covid-19-a-tale-of-two-countries/
COVID-19 IN EECA COUNTRIES – AN OVERVIEW
A report by Nathan Dampier, BEARR Trust volunteer
