Saving Us: Two nurses…
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...
AVP online in Russia and Ukraine
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...
“More questions than answers”: military conscription in the lockdown
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...
New activity at the Refugee Centre
“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...
A “big change” at the English Club
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...
News of Friends in Moscow, April 2020
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...
Children’s tales: Stories from the refugee centre
Migrant and refugee families suffer a huge dislocation. The children of such families feel the consequences, even if they were very young, or not yet born, at the time of their family’s move. They often lack the resources to...
European Young Friends meet in Russia
Peter Doubtfire of Young Friends General Meeting (part of Britain Yearly Meeting) reports on the EMEYF Gathering in Russia in April 2019 25 young adult Quakers and 10 children gathered in the village of Peski near St Petersburg for...
Quakers Uniting in Publications: Co-clerks from Moscow and USA
At the 2019 annual meeting of QUIP (Quakers Uniting in Publications), Vanessa Julye and Natasha Zhuravenkova were appointed as co-clerks – cementing an important transatlantic collaboration. QUIP (www.quakerquip.com) began in 1983 and is now an international network of over...
Were there Quakers in Russia?
This article first appeared in The Friend on 15 February 2018 under the title “A Russian tale”. It is reproduced here by permission. The picture is a view of Buzuluk, painted by Richard Kilbey who was a member of...