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...
Over a number of years FHM has supported a variety of projects initiated by the Centre for Psychological, Medical and Social Support in Dzerzhinsk, a city east of Moscow. The projects have been directed towards finding innovative ways to...
A two year project in Dzerzhinsk (running from late 2015 to 2017) called “Attention! Conflict!”, was designed to set up mediation programmes in schools. The aim was to use peer-to-peer mediation by schoolchildren trained as mediators. Teachers and school...
The “Kids are Kids” Integration Centre for refugees in Moscow provides educational and cultural activities for pre-schoolers who don’t attend kindergarten, and tutoring for school age children including those who have no access to state schools. During 2016 about...
This project, in 2016, supported the activities of a dedicated group of voluntary prison visitors, Moscow’s ONK , by contributing towards their travel and subsistence expenses. In return the visitors provided information about their work and shared...
In 2012 Friends House Moscow received a major grant from The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, which provided three years of funding for translation and publication of Quaker texts. The work was not finished by the end of year 3...
FHM continues to fund the printing and distribution costs for Alternativshchik, a newsletter that provides information and support for conscientious objectors. Three issues were produced this year and around 1,000 copies were sent throughout Russia, either to individuals or...
FHM has been funding the rent of a small office for an advice centre in Kazan (Tatarstan), which provides legal and other advice on alternative service for conscientious objectors. The centre also helps in cases where there is an illegal...
The Alternatives to Violence project (AVP) is a practical training programme that enables participants to deal with potentially violent situations in new and creative ways. It was originally developed by Quakers in the 1970s in the USA, for use...