Buzuluk is a town to the south of the Urals in the Orenburg Region, which straddles the border between European Russia and Asian Russia. It has a long Quaker history: Friends worked there both before and after the Revolution,...

Children and teenagers can be particularly vulnerable when they use the internet. Risks include online bullying and depressive youth movements (sects and “death groups” which encourage suicide). A project in Dzerzhinsk, running during 2018, aimed to share experience and...

A new project in the city of Dzerzhinsk aims to help disabled young adults find a career. The project “My Route to Occupation” has both short term and long term objectives: The short term aim is to assist a...

During 2017 FHM continued to fund the rent for a small office in Kazan, to allow the advice service “For Our Sons” to operate. Every month the centre held about 40 individual consultations for people who want to exercise...

Vladimir Chertkov was the literary executor of Tolstoy, and the organiser of the Russian pacifist movement in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in the early 20th Century. The aim of this project was to preserve, by electronic scanning,...

Anton Konovalov is an expert in conflict resolution. He is an educational psychologist, and member of the Association of Curators of Mediation Services and Mediators, based in Moscow. Anton came to us with a proposal to set up a...

The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) gives practical training that helps people to deal with potentially violent situations in new and creative ways. Originally developed by Quakers in the 1970s in the USA, for use in prison work, the...

Activity in 2017 included publication of: Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale; Hidden in Plain Sight; Friends for 300 Years by Howard Brinton, and Reflections from a Long Marriage, by Roger and Susan Sawtell. Work in progress included...

FHM funds printing and distribution costs for the Alternativshchik newsletter for conscientious objectors, that is sent to individuals or distributed via religious organisations throughout Russia. Three issue s were printed and distributed this year.

The organisation Big Change helps young people brought up in orphanages to get education and job prospects, and acquire life skills for existing outside the orphanage. It receives funding from various sources (including President Putin). FHM has provided supplementary...