How Quakers Saved Russia…
This is the title of a new book by Sergei Nikitin (a former director of Amnesty Russia, and longtime associate of FHM). It tells the story of the famine relief operation in southern Russia in the early 1920s. The...
Build Back Better
Friends House Moscow in the UK (registered charity 1055965) has joined with more than 300 civil society organisations and leaders to co-sign a statement from the #BuildBackBetter campaign. We “are calling for a new settlement that protects vital public...
Coronavirus Special
This is a collection of articles about FHM and our projects during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia and Ukraine. A shorter version is in our print-format newsletter . Click on the “+” signs below to see each article. Last...
A COVID-19 timeline in Russia
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...
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...