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/

Coronavirus Special

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This is a collection of news stories about FHM and our projects during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and Ukraine. A shorter version is in our . Click on the “+” signs below to see each article. Last updated: May 2020 (Photo: Moscow Times, 30 March 2020) On Red Square, even the pigeons are social […]

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A COVID-19 timeline in Russia

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31 Dec 2019 – WHO is informed of an outbreak of “pneumonia of unknown cause” (later dubbed COVID-19) in Wuhan, China. 31 Jan 2020 – Two cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Russia, in Tyumen and Chita. They are both Chinese visitors to Russia. Both patients have recovered by 12 February and are discharged from hospital; […]

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Saving Us: Two nurses…

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People no one noticed before are saving our lives today. Because someone helped them in time. Few of us know what happens to those who were raised in orphanages when they reach the age of eighteen and begin to live on their own. As a rule — and this is a shameful fact of life […]

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AVP online in Russia and Ukraine

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AVP (the Alternatives to Violence Project) groups in Moscow and Ukraine are starting to meet online. Representatives from Ukraine have now joined AVP International’s Education Committee. They joined together with representatives from Africa, Australia, Europe and North America to discuss the demands of the current situation and how AVP’s work might be adapted. On 21 […]

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“More questions than answers”: military conscription in the lockdown

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On 30 March the Russian President and the Minister of Defence announced that spring conscription would start as usual on 1 April. The machinery of national defence requires that 135,000 young men be delivered twice a year. However by April, local governors and the heads of several regional military commissions had already announced that call-ups […]

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New activity at the Refugee Centre

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“Kids are Kids” (the Integration Centre for Refugee and Migrant Children) continues its work in Quarantine mode. Lessons in Russian, maths, English, physics, chemistry and some other subjects are still being held, but now they are online and teaching is most often done 1:1. Parents are also joining the classes, as they are not working […]

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A “big change” at the English Club

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FHM supports the “English Club” at Big Change, the organisation that gives education and life skills to young people who have grown up in orphanages and leave with little ability to cope. The English Club has recently gone online with the students mastering two new games: “Guess Who?” and “Guess Where?” – they are shown […]

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News of Friends in Moscow, April 2020

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Quakers in Russia have continued to meet in March/April, under the Quarantine regulations, by going online. Moscow Monthly Meeting (the main weekend Meeting for Worship, usually held on a Saturday) are now meeting by Skype. They also met like this with Michael Eccles who planned to visit Moscow on behalf of EMES (FWCC Europe and […]

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