This charming music video is about life in the Moscow coronavirus lockdown. Starring the family of our Friend Sergei, who helps to run the service provider company that delivers charitable work for Friends House Moscow. Sergei’s wife Natalia is...
“Sergei Semyonich! Get up!” ” We infected all of Moscow for you!” ” Honest! We did!” ” And traffic jams everywhere!” On April 15, Moscow’s new coronavirus control system of electronic passes went into effect. The design, unfortunately, did...
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...
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...
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 (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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...