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RUSSIA
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Title:
Russian Federation
Source:
United Nations. Cartographic Section.
Date of Document:
January 2004
Accessed Date:
22 November 2012
Title:
Russie. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
22 November 2012
Title:
Russia. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
23 March 2022
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
Title:
EASO Country of Origin Information Report. Russian Federation: State Actors of Protection.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
March 2017
Accessed Date:
4 January 2018
Title:
Fédération de Russie: Les structures géopolitiques de la Russie. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
16 May 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Russia. BTI 2022 Country Report.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Présentation de la Russie
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
17 November 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Russia. Civic Freedom Monitor.
Source:
International Center for Not-For-Profit Law
Date of Document:
10 August 2020
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Russian Military Mobilization on Ukraine's Borders and in Occupied Crimea
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
27 April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Country of origin information report for the Russian Federation
Source:
Netherlands. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Date of Document:
April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
The situation of Crimean Tatars
Source:
Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly.
Date of Document:
4 June 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Ukraine: Russian Air-Dropped Bombs Hit Residential Area
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
10 March 2022
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
Accessed Date:
10 May 2022
Title:
Russia. Amnesty International Report 2021/22: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
29 March 2022
Accessed Date:
29 March 2022
Title:
Russia. World Report 2022: Events of 2021.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2022
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia. Nations in Transit 2021.
Author:
Nicholas Trickett
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia. Freedom in the World 2022.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
South Ossetia. Freedom in the World 2021.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Crimea: Breaking the wall of silence
Source:
Crimean Human Rights House et al.
Date of Document:
November 2018
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to resolution 16/21 of the Human Rights Council
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/30/RUS/1
Date of Document:
1 March 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Compilation on the Russian Federation
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/30/RUS/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
19 March 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Russia: Citizenship, Living Conditions, Protection from Refoulement and Consequences of Leaving for citizens from the Former Soviet Republics in Russia and Hate Crimes and racially motivated attacks against Non-Slav Citizens in Russia.
Source:
Denmark. Danish Immigration Service.
Date of Document:
August 2017
Accessed Date:
25 January 2018
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Russian Federation
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/30/RUS/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
9 March 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine
Source:
United Nations. General Assembly.
Date of Document:
2 August 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Crimea. Freedom in the World 2022.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
ECRI Report on the Russian Federation (fifth monitoring cycle)
Source:
Council of Europe. European Commission against Racism and Intolerance.
Date of Document:
5 March 2019
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Unfair Game: Persecution of Human Rights Defenders in Russia Intensifies
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
17 September 2019
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Civil Society in the North Caucasus: Latest Trends and Challenges in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan
Source:
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Date of Document:
January 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Russia. Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach: The Global Scale and Scope of Transnational Repression.
Date of Document:
February 2021
Author:
Nate Schenkkan; Isabel Linzer
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Russia: Brutal Arrests and Torture, Ill-Treatment of Anti-War Protesters
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
9 March 2022
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Insufficient Home Services for Older People
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 August 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Federal law on citizenship of the Russian Federation (As Amended in 2017)
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Georgia and South Ossetia: Requirements and procedures for a Georgian citizen of Ossetian ethnicity to acquire South Ossetian citizenship (2008-2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
20 January 2014
Accessed Date:
26 June 2014
Title:
Requirements and procedures to obtain internal and foreign travel passports; whether biometric passports have been used; if so, information on the biometric passport, including stored biometric data and its appearance; requirements and procedures...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
19 January 2016
Accessed Date:
27 January 2016
Title:
Availability of fraudulent documents
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
15 November 2013
Accessed Date:
29 November 2013
Title:
The Transformation of Russian Citizenship Policy in the Context of European or Eurasian Choice: Regional Prospects
Source:
Central and Eastern European Migration Review
Date of Document:
13 June 2017
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Whether the consent of both parents is required for a child to be listed and/or pictured in one of the parents' international passports; whether the consent of both parents is required for a child to obtain his or her own passport
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
5 November 2013
Accessed Date:
29 November 2013
Title:
Conditions under which Soviet-born persons who emigrated from the territory of Russia before, during or after 1992 would be permitted to apply for citizenship of the Russian Federation; factors taken into account when processing such an...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
15 September 2008
Accessed Date:
22 November 2012
Title:
Russia and Uzbekistan: Whether an individual born in the Soviet Union (Russia) to ethnic Russian parents, who is a citizen of Uzbekistan, is entitled to Russian citizenship (2013-May 2014)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 May 2014
Accessed Date:
29 May 2014
Title:
Whether a database containing residency registration information of Russian citizens exists; how it is accessed and under what circumstances; how it is updated
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
14 December 2009
Accessed Date:
22 November 2012
Title:
Russian Federation. U.S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
Title:
Federal law on introduction of changes into the federal law 'on the citizenship of the Russian Federation'
Accessed Date:
19 November 2013
Title:
Russia: New Law Eliminates Requirement to Renounce Foreign Citizenship
Source:
United States. Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Monitor.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia and Ukraine: Issuance of Russian passports and citizenship rights to Ukraine citizens living in the territories of Crimea and Donbas [Donbass] (2014-February 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
28 February 2020
Accessed Date:
30 March 2020
Title:
Fédération de Russie : L'acquisition de la citoyenneté russe par naturalisation
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
27 October 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia expands list of those prohibited from holding dual citizenship
Source:
Gherson Immigration
Date of Document:
22 January 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Basic Information; Election results. Russian Federation: State Duma.
Source:
Inter-Parliamentary Union. Parline.
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
Title:
International Election Observation Mission: Russian Federation – Presidential Election, 18 March 2018.
Source:
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
6 June 2018
Accessed Date:
25 January 2019
Title:
Russian Federation, State Duma Elections, 18 September 2016. OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission, Final Report.
Source:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
23 December 2016
Accessed Date:
30 January 2017
Title:
Russian Federation. Referendum of 1 July 2020.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
The Kremlin's Political Prisoners: Advancing a Political Agenda by Crushing Dissent
Source:
Perseus Strategies; Memorial Human Rights Centre
Date of Document:
May 2019
Author:
Jared Genser et al.
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
“Like Walking a Minefield”: Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia's Chechen Republic
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
31 August 2016
Accessed Date:
30 December 2016
Title:
Russia: Government vs. Rights Groups
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 June 2018
Accessed Date:
25 January 2019
Title:
Russian Federation. Election for President of 18 March 2018.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Brutal Repression of Protests in Moscow: a complete account of violations
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
September 2019
Author:
Ilya Nuzov; Daria Kovaleva
Accessed Date:
10 March 2020
Title:
Follow-Up Memorandum of the Commissioner for Human Rights on Freedom of Assembly in the Russian Federation
Source:
Council of Europe. Commissioner for Human Rights.
Date of Document:
5 September 2017
Accessed Date:
25 January 2018
Title:
Political Repression and Political Prisoners in Russia 2018–2019
Source:
Memorial Human Rights Centre
Date of Document:
October 2020
Author:
Igor Gukovsky; Sergei Davidis; Darya Kostromina
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Russia's Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Suggested List of Issues: Submitted for the consideration of the 8th periodic report by the Russian Federation for the 129th Session of the Human Rights Committee
Source:
Memorial Human Rights Centre et al.
Date of Document:
June 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Les principales forces politiques
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
25 May 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Police Detain Thousands in Pro-Navalny Protests
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 January 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Ingushetia protest leaders face up to nine years in prison
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
2 December 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Russian Federation. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
25 January 2019
Title:
“I Could Kill You and No One Would Stop Me”: Weak State Response to Domestic Violence in Russia
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 October 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
The Russian Federation. WAVE Country Report 2021: Women's Specialist Support Services in Europe and the impact of COVID-19 on their provision
Source:
Women Against Violence Europe
Date of Document:
December 2021
Author:
Elena Floriani et al.
Editor:
Elena Biaggioni et al.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Decriminalization of Domestic Violence
Source:
United States. The Law Library of Congress. Global Legal Research Center.
Date of Document:
June 2017
Accessed Date:
4 January 2018
Title:
Concluding observations on the report submitted by the Russian Federation under article 12 (1) of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
Code:
CRC/C/OPSC/RUS/CO/1
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Rights of the Child
Date of Document:
3 July 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Killed by Gossip: “Honor killings” of women in the North Caucasus. Report on the results of a qualitative study in the republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chechnya (Russian Federation).
Source:
Stichting Justice Initiative
Date of Document:
18 December 2018
Author:
Yu. A. Antonova; S.V. Siradzhudinova
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Russie / Tchétchénie: « crimes d'honneur »
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
22 March 2019
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Inside the fight over Russia's domestic violence law
Date of Document:
17 February 2020
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Délivrance des papiers d'identité aux enfants mineurs et autorisations parentales pour leur sortie du territoire
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
21 July 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Informations sur le mariage à titre posthume
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
23 March 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Proposed Russian Domestic Violence bill prioritises “preserving family” over the life and health of women
Date of Document:
12 December 2019
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Fédération de Russie: Les enfants en situation de handicap
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
22 September 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia's Deadly Negligence of Domestic Violence
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
8 March 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Ninth periodic report submitted by the Russian Federation under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2019
Date of Document:
8 January 2020
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Domestic Violence in Russia: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Date of Document:
20 July 2020
Accessed Date:
5 February 2021
Title:
Concluding observations on the ninth periodic report of the Russian Federation
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
30 November 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
European Court Rules to Reunite Chechen Woman with Her Children
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
25 November 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Situation and treatment of sexual and gender minorities; legislation, state protection and support services (2017-February 2020)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Accessed Date:
30 March 2020
Title:
Russia. Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People in Europe and Central Asia.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association. ILGA-Europe.
Date of Document:
February 2022
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: A state-led assault on equality. Challenging hate: Monitoring anti-LGBT “hate speech” and responses to it in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.
Date of Document:
February 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Russia: Sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
November 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
“They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me”: Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia's Chechen Republic
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
26 May 2017
Author:
Tanya Lokshina; Kyle Knight
Accessed Date:
4 January 2018
Title:
Russian Federation's Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Treaty: Suggested List of Issues Relating to Discrimination Based on Sexual orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights; Moscow Community Center for LGBT+ Initiatives
Date of Document:
1 June 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Justice or Complicity? LGBT Rights and the Russian Courts
Source:
Equal Rights Trust
Date of Document:
September 2016
Accessed Date:
30 December 2016
Title:
Transgender people in Russian society
Source:
Transgender Legal Defense Project
Author:
Diana Yashenkova; Valery Melnikov
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Written submission related to the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons and men who have sex with men in Russia. Submitted for the consideration of the 6th periodic report by the Russian Federation for the 62nd Session of ...
Source:
Moscow LGBT-Initiative 'Stimul' et al.
Date of Document:
August 2017
Accessed Date:
4 January 2018
Title:
Russia. Trans Legal Mapping Report 2019: Recognition before the law.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
September 2020
Author:
Zhan Chiam et al.
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Chechen Republic (Russian Federation). Our Identities Under Arrest: A global overview on the enforcement of laws criminalizing consensual same-sex sexual acts between adults and diverse gender expressions.
Source:
International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
Date of Document:
15 December 2021
Editor:
Lucas Ramón Mendos
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
No Support: Russia's “Gay Propaganda” Law Imperils LGBT Youth
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
11 December 2018
Author:
Michael Garcia Bochenek et al.
Editor:
Tanya Lokshina et al.
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Russia: Tier 3. Trafficking in Persons Report 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
1 July 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Well-Forgotten Old: Hate Crimes and Efforts to Counteract Xenophobia and Radical Nationalism in Russia in the First Half of 2021
Source:
SOVA-Center for Information and Analysis
Date of Document:
30 July 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
OSAC Country Security Report. Russia.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
2 August 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Groupes armés clandestins au Daghestan (2018-2021)
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
1 July 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Anti-extremism in Quarantine: The State against the Incitement of Hatred and the Political Participation of Nationalists in Russia in 2020
Source:
SOVA Center for Information and Analysis
Date of Document:
12 March 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
General Security Situation and Events in Dagestan
Source:
Austrian Red Cross. Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation.
Date of Document:
13 January 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Les assassinats et tentatives de meurtres visant les opposants Tchétchènes dans les pays européens depuis 2009
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
30 May 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Information on military conscription and exemption from service, including alternative military service for conscientious objectors
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
14 November 2011
Accessed Date:
22 November 2012
Title:
Military service, including amendments to military service; whether women are treated differently than men; whether holders of military books are treated differently than conscripted persons; consequences of draft evasion and availability of ...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 April 2015
Accessed Date:
27 January 2016
Title:
Crimea: Conscription Violates International Law
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
1 November 2019
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Concluding observations on the sixth periodic report of the Russian Federation
Source:
United Nations. Committee against Torture.
Date of Document:
28 August 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention. Sixth periodic reports of States parties due in 2016. Russian Federation.
Date of Document:
27 December 2016
Accessed Date:
16 January 2018
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Gabriela Knaul. Addendum: Mission to the Russian Federation.
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
30 April 2014
Accessed Date:
17 December 2014
Title:
Fédération de Russie : L'accès à la santé dans les prisons russes
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
12 July 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: No place for protest
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
12 August 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Standardized police reporting forms, including appearance; whether police are required to submit a written response to a complainant regardless of whether they pursue an investigation, appearance and content of the written response; police...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
16 October 2015
Accessed Date:
27 January 2016
Title:
Russie/Ingouchie : menaces pesant sur les proches de personnes soupçonnées de terrorisme (persécution d'Etat, vendetta)
Source:
Swiss Refugee Council
Date of Document:
24 May 2018
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Russia. The Law on Police Use of Force Worldwide.
Source:
University of Pretoria. Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Taking Control? Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Russia.
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
27 November 2019
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Russia. Freedom on the Net 2021.
Editor:
Elisha Aaron et al.
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Growing Internet Isolation, Control, Censorship
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
18 June 2020
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia: Year of Doubling Down on Internet Censorship
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
24 December 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Media Freedom in Crimea
Source:
International Partnership for Human Rights
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia's Silence Factory: The Kremlin's Crackdown on Free Speech and Democracy in the Run-up to the 2021 Parliamentary Elections
Source:
International Partnership for Human Rights
Date of Document:
August 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia Criminalizes Independent War Reporting, Anti-War Protests
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 March 2022
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia. International Religious Freedom Report for 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 May 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russia. United States Commission on International Religious Freedom 2021 Annual Report.
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Freedom of Conscience in Russia: Restrictions and Challenges in 2020
Source:
SOVA Center for Information and Analysis
Date of Document:
29 April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Treatment of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (2011- November 2014)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 November 2014
Accessed Date:
27 January 2016
Title:
Russia: 'I would like to believe' acquittal 'is first of many'
Date of Document:
23 November 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Religion and Violence in Russia: Context, Manifestations, and Policy
Source:
Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Date of Document:
June 2018
Author:
Olga Oliker et al.
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
Russia: Religious Freedom Issues. Statement by the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Source:
European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses
Date of Document:
19 September 2019
Accessed Date:
6 March 2020
Title:
Fédération de Russie : situation des Témoins de Jéhovah de mars 2020 à mars 2021
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
9 April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Fédération de Russie : situation des athées en Tchétchénie
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
10 March 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Country Policy and Information Note. Russia: Jehovah's Witnesses. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Inventing Extremists: The Impact of Russian Anti-Extremism Policies
Source:
United States. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Date of Document:
January 2018
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Racism, Discrimination and Fight Against “Extremism” in Contemporary Russia and its controlled territories
Source:
International Federation for Human Rights et al.
Date of Document:
18 July 2017
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
The treatment of people of mixed race and of people of African descent by society and the authorities; state protection provided to people of mixed race and to people of African descent who have been victims of violence and...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
5 March 2015
Accessed Date:
14 January 2016
Title:
Fourth Opinion on the Russian Federation - adopted on 20 February 2018
Code:
ACFC/OP/IV(2018)001
Source:
Council of Europe. Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
Date of Document:
20 February 2018
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
EASO Country of Origin Information Report: Russian Federation. The Situation for Chechens in Russia.
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
August 2018
Accessed Date:
8 January 2019
Title:
OSCE Rapporteur's Report under the Moscow Mechanism on alleged Human Rights Violations and Impunity in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation
Code:
ODIHR.GAL/76/18/Corr.1
Source:
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
Date of Document:
21 December 2018
Accessed Date:
25 January 2019
Title:
Concluding observations on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth periodic reports of the Russian Federation
Code:
CERD/C/RUS/CO/23-24
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Date of Document:
20 September 2017
Accessed Date:
5 January 2018
Title:
Combined twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth periodic reports submitted by the Russian Federation under article 9 of the Convention, due in 2020
Date of Document:
3 July 2020
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russian Federation. The Indigenous World 2021.
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Date of Document:
April 2021
Author:
Olga Murashko; Johannes Rohr
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Russian Federation. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
December 2020
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
List of issues: Civil and political rights of indigenous minority peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation
Source:
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology
Accessed Date:
8 March 2021
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Les mariages interethniques en milieu tchétchène
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
27 August 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Fédération de Russie : la situation des minorités ethniques
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
23 July 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Arménie et Fédération de Russie : Les mariages forcés chez les Yézides
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
6 April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Fifth Report submitted by the Russian Federation Pursuant to Article 25, paragraph 2 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Date of Document:
13 April 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Residence registration system, including legal requirements to change residence registration when moving from a residence with multiple co-registrants and whether consent from co-registrants is needed (2014-February 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
27 February 2015
Accessed Date:
27 January 2016
Title:
COI Query Response. Russian Federation: Legislation and practice on repatriation for nationals with dual Russian-Tajik citizenship (2010-2021).
Source:
European Union. European Asylum Support Office.
Date of Document:
26 November 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
Title:
Fédération de Russie : Situation des combattants engagés dans les mouvements djihadistes au Moyen-Orient et des membres de leurs familles à leur retour en Fédération de Russie
Source:
France. Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides.
Date of Document:
2 September 2021
Accessed Date:
28 March 2022
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 31 March 2022:
Title:
Russia. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020.
Additional Info.:
Addendum regarding reproductive rights was added on 4 November 2021
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
30 March 2021
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/russia
Accessed Date:
30 March 2022
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