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This is the English language website for Friends House Moscow. It’s about who we are, what we do, and the people and projects we support. More info here.

We also have a Russian language website with different content, which gives information about Quakers. You can find it here: www.quakers.ru/

Это веб-сайт английского языка для Дома друзей Москвы. Ре чь идет о том, кто мы, что мы делаем, о людях и проектах, которые мы поддерживаем. У нас также есть сайт на русском языке с различным содержанием, в котором содержится информация о квакерах. Вы можете найти это здесь: www.quakers.ru/

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  • Doctor war protestor

    “People, stay human!”

    News

    In Russia, mass protests against the war, like the ones that took place in February and March, were quickly stifled by new laws. For example, one Moscow city councillor was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for passionately arguing, at a council meeting, that his district should not be debating the budget for […]

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    Ukraine, again…

    All blog posts, News

    More than eight months after the Russian invasion, the war in Ukraine continues. Here are some updates; for earlier news see this post: friendshousemoscow.org/news-about-ukraine/ War and the Peace Testimony Eight Quaker agencies have signed a joint statement on the Peace Testimony and the war in Ukraine. The statement notes that the Quaker vocation as a […]

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  • Russia flag with peace dove

    Then, and now…

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    Patricia Cockrell reflects on the “landscape” in Russia in the 1990s, when charities and human rights organisations were set up, and on how things have changed in the years that followed… One of the advices in the Britain Yearly Meeting little book of advices and queries is to ‘live adventurously’, and so we did  – […]

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    New books: Quakers in Russia

    News, Quaker History

    Two recently published books tell stories of Quakers in Russia – one book is set in the 1920s and one in the 1990s. In “Friends and Comrades: How Quakers helped Russians survive famine and epidemic“, Sergei Nikitin tells the history of how Quakers provided famine relief in southern Russia, during the turmoil of the Russian […]

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  • Ukraine flag over Kharkiv

    News about Ukraine

    News

    For ways to donate, see below… For a statement from Britain Yearly Meeting please click here … And for a collection of useful links and resources see this page from Northern Friends Peace Board in the UK: https://nfpb.org.uk/ukraine_2022/ For more reporting, see this article in The Friend: https://thefriend.org/article/quakers-condemn-the-attack-on-ukraine which includes a comment from one Friend […]

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  • Ukraine: Quakers in Britain condemn attack and call for end to fighting

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    This statement can be found at: https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-attack-on-ukraine Quakers in Britain strongly condemn the attack on Ukraine. It is a grave development for humanity, and a violation of international law, including the Charter of the United Nations. “Our belief in the preciousness of all human life leads us to oppose all war”, said Paul Parker, Recording […]

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  • Tsiolkovsky sliding on ice

    Sliding on the ice

    News

    “Nastya and Nikita” publish entertaining and educational books for children, books that tell stories about Russian people and places. One book features the town of Kaluga, where our new project to give school books to migrant children is running. It tells the story of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who is a local hero… “Who was Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky? […]

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    A book for migrant kids

    News

    Our project “Equally Diverse” provides schools, in the Kaluga region, with books that help children of migrants to learn Russian, understand the “codes” for living in Russian society, and thrive in their new environment. The project leader is especially enthusiastic about one special book… Migration: Incredible Animal Journeys is written by Mike Unwin, a UK […]

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Peace, alternatives to violence

In former Soviet Union countries, as everywhere else around the world, there is a...

Prisoners and justice

Quakers have a long history of working for the humane treatment of prisoners, and...

Mental health

Ever since William Tuke opened “The Retreat” in 1796, mental health has been a...

Orphans and disadvantaged kids

Orphans can have a hard time in Russia.  Brought up in institutions, they often...

Refugees and homeless

By 2017 there were more than 220,000 asylum seekers in Russia plus several million...

Supporting pacifists

Conscientious objection to military service was illegal in the Soviet Union.  It was legalised...

Our latest projects

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Friends in Talinn preparing for concert

Books for refugee kids in Estonia

A new project in Estonia is for the purchase of Estonian-language books  (plus some...

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Migrant kids in Kaluga and Novosibirsk

Equally Diverse (Одинаково разные) is an exciting project which began in 2020, in the...

AVP workshop Kharkiv

Alternatives to Violence Project

AVP (Alternatives to Violence Project) gives practical training that helps people to deal with...

Kids at the refugee school

Schooling for refugee kids in Moscow

The “Kids are Kids” Integration Centre serves about 80 refugee and migrant children, who...

Students at the English Club

Educational support for orphans

The organisation ‘Big Change’ works in Moscow to support the educational needs of young...

Outside the draft office in Kazan

Advice for conscientious objectors

An advice centre in the Kazan area called “For Our Sons” provides legal and...

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Information for conscientious objectors

Alternativshchik is a service that provides information and support for conscientious objectors who wish...

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Quaker outreach in the Russian language

Quaker outreach is not proselytising, but letting people know who we are and what...

Publications

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“Friends and Comrades”: Quakers in famine relief in Russia

In “Friends and Comrades: How Quakers helped Russians survive famine and epidemic“, Sergei Nikitin...

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“Sketches from a Quaker’s Moscow Journal”

In the 1990s, the iron curtain was giving way or at least becoming permeable...

Newsletter Winter 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is – sadly – still ongoing, after more than...

To Form a Faithful Community

Julie Harlow describes how the daily international online Meeting for Worship, to hold Ukraine...

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