Remembering Eleanor
Eleanor Barden, 24 February 1932 – 26 March 2018 A Memorial, by Sergei Nikitin Sad news has come from Northampton Quaker Meeting — Eleanor Barden is dead. I met Eleanor a very long time ago, 20 years ago. She...
The Mennonite Centre in Molochansk
Readers may be interested to know about the Mennonite Centre at Molochansk in south eastern Ukraine. Based in a restored former Mennonite Girls’ School (Maedchenschule) building, the Centre is engaged in humanitarian and social development work to improve the...
Running the Great Manchester Run
The Great Manchester 10K Run took place on 10 May 2015. Our Friend Rebecca Critchley took part in the run to raise money for Friends House Moscow. Here is her account of the event. It is only when you...
Friends Together – Virtually
At Britain Yearly Meeting (held at Friends House, London in May 2015), Friends House Moscow tried an experiment in connecting three countries together. Our programme staff, in the office in Moscow, and Alla Soroka of AVP Ukraine, speaking from...
Fat Cats
Zarathustra is a (very) fat ginger cat who is owned (or is it the other way round?) by Russian artist Svetlana Petrova. Svetlana has become known for her online artworks which feature paintings by famous artists, embellished by the...
A Good Sign
By Pat Stewart On Saturday, March 15, two weeks after Russian forces began to take control of key locations in Crimea and one day before the Crimean referendum, there was a peace march in Moscow. According to the BBC,...
What does George Fox say?
This is nothing in particular to do with Russia, but we love this music video by Quaker filmmaker Ben Guaraldi, with Friends (mostly from Massachusetts), shot on location at Framingham Friends Meeting, Homer’s Cause, and the Middlesex Fells. A...
Power of Goodness
Our fellow F/friends, Friends International Library, have just completed a second edition of Power of Goodness: Stories of Nonviolence and Reconciliation. This is a three-language edition in Russian, Chechen and English of stories showing love and kindness in action. ...
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Peter Dyson (FHM Board member) writes about a visit in June 2013 to St Petersburg by Mahogany Opera, who performed all three of Benjamin Britten’s Church Parables. The Return of the Prodigal Son was performed in the magnificent Hermitage...
A Visit to Moscow and Grozny
By Roswitha Jarman Roswitha is a Quaker who worked in Moscow in the 1990s and helped to set up Friends House Moscow. She also worked in Chechnya promoting peace and reconciliation. In May 2013 she returned after a 10...