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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...