Friends House Moscow – Supporting Quaker work in Russia

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/

Friends and Comrades

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Next year marks its thirtieth anniversary of Friends House Moscow. Its opening marked a period of optimism that followed the thawing of East–West relations, circumstances very different to those today. Those who conduct the work in Russia do so under circumstances that are not only difficult but dangerous. However, we are mindful that, as one […]

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A new exposition commemorating the Volga famine during 1921 & 1922…

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An international exhibition dealing with the terrible, and rarely acknowledged, history of famine in Russia is now visible online; it was inspired by the personal story of a British Quaker, Violet Tillard. The exhibition’s curators, Marina Demchenko and Anna Melnikova, brought together two dozen artists from different countries, and, from among them, an invited jury of […]

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“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…

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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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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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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

News

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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