Lyudmila Alekseeva
How funded advocacy?
- Of the hundreds of thousands of organizations just have some cash infusion. Most ... well, just working. In Apatity head teacher and the teacher created organization. When the school stopped classes, she has devoted little room. In Rostov husband and his wife lived in a communal apartment, so they stood on the stairs, turn to the reception. And those who have money, get them from two sources. Previously, it was almost entire Western grants. The Soros Foundation, Ford, Bell. Cost money, we can not take it, because our objective - to protect the citizen from the state and who is a girl dines, that her and her dance. But recently started to appear and domestic money. For example, in the Volga district, local entrepreneurs and the president's envoy tenders for the best social project and give the money from its treasury. Recently I was told that now 60 percent of the money, which receive our public organization comes from private Russian foundations. True, they finance social programs rather than human rights. But our businesses are very dependent on government. If we get money from them, it means: They whistle - and they throw us.
- What is your relationship with the authorities?
http://www.izvestia.ru/politic/article30518
Grantees
Current grants allocated to MacArthur in the years 2004-2009 to support projects in the field of human rights in Russia and CIS countries
2006
Independent Legal Expertise Board
Moscow, Russia
Purchase a permanent office in Moscow, $ 450 000,00
2007
Autonomous nonprofit organization "Lawyers for Constitutional Rights and Freedoms
Moscow, Russia
Legal support of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, $ 250 000,00
Perm Regional Human Rights Center
Perm, Russia
Support project to improve accountability of law enforcement bodies in Perm $ 225 000,00
Kazan Human Rights Center
Kazan, Russia
support long-term strategy to improve the accountability of law enforcement agencies $ 180 000,00
Editorial Board "Index / Dossier on Censorship"
Moscow, Russia
Support for human rights magazine "Index of / dossier on censorship and its quarterly applications" Bondage "$ 195 000,00
editorial rights information agency Prima News "
Moscow, Russia
support activities to provide reliable and accurate information on human rights $ 225 000,00
Center for International Protection
Moscow, Russia
support educational programs for lawyers, promoting human rights through The European Court of Human Rights $ 210 000,00
2008
European Centre for the Protection of Human Rights
London, UK
Support for Access Russians to the European Court of Human Rights $ 450 000,00
Committee "For Civil Rights"
Moscow, Russia
Support Project to improve the work law enforcement agencies in the Russian Federation, $ 300 000,00
consortium of women's non-governmental associations
Moscow, Russia
In support of activities Women's Rights Ombudsman in the Russian Federation, $ 250 000,00
Amnesty International »(Amnesty International)
London UK
Protecting Human Rights in the Russian Federation and development of appropriate legal institutions $ 260 000,00
Interregional Human Rights Association organizations "AGORA"
(Association of groups to conduct public inquiries)
Kazan, Russia
Continued support for the protection of human rights in Russia $ 375 000,00
Interregional Human Rights Group
Voronezh, Russia
Support Network of Human Rights in the Voronezh region Russia $ 150 000,00
Moscow Center for Gender Studies
Moscow, Russian Federation
support for women's rights in Russia, $ 225 000,00
Independent Council of Legal Expertise
Moscow, Russian Federation
Promoting reform of law enforcement bodies and courts, improving the mechanisms of protection citizens' rights in Russia, $ 800 000,00
-profit organization "Resource Rights Center"
St. Petersburg, Russia
Providing legal assistance to Russian NGOs and promote the professional growth of these organizations $ 200 000,00
Perm city public charitable organization "Center for Youth initiatives "
Perm, Russia
Protecting the rights of young people of military age $ 100 000,00
Perm Civil Chamber
Perm, Russia
Support for new approaches to human rights activities in Russia
South Regional Resource Center
Krasnodar, Russia
Support Project "Legal assistance to migrants in Krasnodar Krai" $ 200 000,00
2009
Initiative Public Interest Law "
Moscow, Russia
A report on the current state of legal education in Russia $ 495 000,00
Moscow Helsinki Group Moscow, Russia
Support for monitoring human rights in Russia and the development of a regional network of public controls to improve conditions in prisons $ 400 000,00
Public Association Sutyazhnik "
Ekaterinburg, Russia
Support Project" Strategic litigation at the courts of Russia with the application of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms $ 300 000,00
Regional Foundation Center for protection of the rights of the media information "
Voronezh, Russia
Support Project for the protection of media rights of $ 300 000,00
Centre for Human Rights University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA
Support Development of Internet resources on human rights in Russia, $ 150 000,00
Fund "Public Verdict"
Moscow, Russia
support reforms in the sphere of struggle against violent relation to the citizens by law enforcement agencies $ 300 000,00
Glasnost Defense Foundation, Moscow, Russia
monitoring violations of mass media in the Russian Federation $ 125 000,00
http://www.macfound.ru/grantees/human_rights_grantees.html
well and unverified links broken
1.B this year , the Ford Foundation identified the organization "Memorial" - three tranches.
- society itself directly - http://www.fordfound.org/grants/database/detail?111185
(basic goal-setting grant - falsification of the history of Russia and the USSR).
so it is written - For education and advocacy on both contemporary problems of human rights abuse and historical issues concerning past repression .... This project was valued at 895,000 dollars.
- Other - concretized at the falsification of the history of the USSR
http://www.fordfound.org/grants/database/detail?111176 - to create a virtual Museum of the Gulag and the creation of a documentation framework for the atrocities of Stalin.
-over coverage of the atrocities of Stalin - The Memorial will receive 200 thousand dollars over two years.
Third - the development of new technologies to provide service support for human rights to citizens. 250 thousand dollars. http://www.fordfound.org/grants/database/detail?110390
of the things that are worth note - the Ford Foundation, in conjunction with the MacArthur Foundation continues funding for the Human Rights Centre, Perm.
For three years the Ford Foundation has invested in this area - 415 thousand dollars, http://www.fordfound.org/grants/database/detail?111184 http://www.fordfound.org/grants/database/detail?100969
http://www.fordfound .org / grants / database / detail? 108,325, which together with investment MacArthur (remember, once wrote about this - http://marina-yudenich.livejournal.com/490879.html ) Totaled 1.3 million dollars.
Incidentally, in recent years there has been a systematic process of regionalization of the grant funding. If before 2001, 95 percent Money invested in Moscow, and 5 in St. Petersburg, now the situation is somewhat different.
Total percentage division for the year 2010 60 (Moscow) 15 (St. Petersburg) 25 - other regions.
Investment in the cultural dimensions of the projects has not changed.
Since 2004, the amount of the grant of U.S. money to support human rights activity increased in 4,5 times.
Most grants flowing into the area, directly with each other is not connected.
replaced illuminated in a spy scandal Belon (MTBF + Murmansk), grant support which began to decline - a stable financial help gets MTD Voronezh and above the center of Perm.
only "Common" for all regions of the program, funded primarily MacArthur - was a struggle with the system of Internal Affairs and MDAP.
via fatherland
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http://www.ned.org/where-we-work/eurasia/russia
Russia
National Endowment for Democracy
All-Russia Public Movement “Za Prava Cheloveka” (ZPC)
$75,000*
To improve the treatment of prisoners incarcerated in Russia’s system of prisons and penal colonies. ZPC will investigate violations of prisoners’ rights, bring legal measures and public pressure to decrease the occurrence of such violations, and hold public tribunals to review particularly egregious cases. In addition, ZPC will monitor cases of torture and murder by Russia’s law enforcement agencies, especially in the North Caucasus.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$300,002
To support trade union training activities and legal advocacy, thereby strengthening freedom of association. The Solidarity Center will support union education activities at the regional level and provide training on basic unionism, collective bargaining, health and safety and labor legislation. It will assist Russian unions in strengthening their connections with unions outside of Russia and use its expertise to promote networking among workers.
Association of Public Entities “Union of Committees of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia”
$60,000*
To continue to defend the legal rights of Russian servicemen. The organization will provide legal aid and education to the victims of hazing and cruel treatment in military units. It will also monitor and publish recommendations on the jurisdictional conflicts between the Military and Civilian Prosecutors that arise during hazing investigations.
Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization “Center for Social and Labor Rights”
$55,861*
To maintain, expand and promote its interactive internet portal, www.trudprava.ru, which promotes knowledge of labor rights and issues, and provides workers with the necessary skills to defend these rights. The website will serve as an independent and objective source of information to help workers make informed decisions and improve their working conditions.
Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization “Memorial Center for the History of Political Repression ‘Perm-36’”
$49,735*
To provide support for its museum dedicated to political repression in the Soviet Union. In addition to museum upkeep, Endowment funds will used to conduct a series of seminars for teachers from neighboring regions and prepare electronic versions of historical and methodological materials.
Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Agency for Social Information”
$67,000*
To build regional NGO coalitions and to strengthen ties between regional and issue-based associations, coalitions, and networks of civil society organizations in three selected regions in Russia. In order to support local NGOs and coalitions, three small grants will be awarded for projects to strengthen networks and organize activities intended to increase public trust in NGOs.
Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Agency for Social Information” (ASI)
$65,671*
To collect and disseminate information on the activities of the Russian NGO community. ASI will maintain its network of affiliate offices located in 24 regional centers, which will provide reports that will be aggregated by the Moscow office, posted on the ASI website, and distributed via an email listserv. The ASI website serves as a primary vehicle for information exchange for the Russian NGO community.
Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Center for Social Projecting ‘VOZROZHDENIYE’”
$55,000*
To assist young political leaders on the municipal level in Pskov region. Vozrozhdenie will help to form a network of new political leaders, dubbed “political generation 2010-15,” who will become more responsive to their constituencies. The project activities will focus on the Pskov oblast municipal elections on October 11, 2009.
Autonomous Non-Profit Organization “Mashr”
$55,000*
To counter the lack of official accountability and lack of respect for human rights in Ingushetia. Mashr will publicize incidents of kidnapping and forced disappearance, provide legal assistance to victims and their family members, encourage officials to investigate such events thoroughly, and use international judicial mechanisms to resolve such cases when necessary.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$137,479
To develop understanding about democracy and the market economy and build entrepreneurship and leadership skills among young people in the North Caucasus. CIPE and its local partner VIM will design and carry out a certificate program on youth entrepreneurship and leadership for university age students. CIPE and VIM will also support the graduates by establishing an alumni network and providing access to local business leaders and officials.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$74,042*
To strengthen existing proposals and formulate new approaches to eliminating corruption. CIPE will create a working group of Russian and US academics, policy specialists, and former officials to analyze issues of corruption in Russia and prepare recommendations to strengthen institutions of integrity in Russia’s private and public sectors. The working group will present its recommendations to the media, public and government at a final conference.
Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations
$50,000*
To monitor and research instances of violence or pressure against journalists. In particular, the Center’s staff will conduct investigations into murders, kidnappings, and other extreme forms of violence against journalists in order to determine if they are connected to journalists’ professional activities.
Center for Peacebuilding and Community Development
$17,340*
To conduct six lectures at Chechen universities on topics essential to democratic development. This will include: the relationship between state, society and the individual; rule of law; models of development; historic experiences with authoritarianism; and democracy and freedom of expression.
Centre de la Protection Internationale
$50,000*
To provide advanced training on international judicial procedures to human rights lawyers from Russia and other CIS countries. The Centre will train highly qualified specialists in Russia and other NIS countries on how to prepare and submit acceptable cases to the European Court.
Charitable Foundation “Support of Civil Society Initiatives ‘Fulcrum Foundation’”
$55,000*
To continue its small awards program for youth NGOs. The organization will award approximately seven small awards of about $5,000 to support projects conducted by civic organizations working in Russia’s regions. The organization will also continue to monitor and support the activities of organizations that received awards this year.
Charity Foundation “International Project - Youth Human Rights Movement”
$65,000*
To strengthen the Movement’s network of youth human rights organizations. In addition to networking and training activities, the project will include a mini-awards competition and small grants program, which will provide capacity-building and project support to regional groups that have little access to financial resources; lack management and PR skills; and are inexperienced in running public campaigns.
Chelyabinsk Regional Public Fund “Helping Hand”
$57,000*
To continue its program of legal assistance and human rights education and training in several cities in the southern Ural Mountains. Helping Hand’s “Human Rights Ambulance” will offer free legal aid, including working with inmates in the region’s prison system and their families. Helping Hand’s Human Rights School will provide courses on human rights, democracy, and civic activism.
Civil Rights Defenders
$108,338*
To hold a conference on human rights in the North Caucasus in November of 2009. The conference will take place in Stock-holm during the Swedish chairmanship of the European Union and its goal will be to draw international attention to human rights abuses in the North Caucasus.
DEMAS - Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights
$58,785
To establish crossborder partnerships between Czech and Russian NGOs. Representatives of seven members of DEMAS, a Czech NGO umbrella association, will travel to Russia to establish contacts with Russian civil society organizations. In turn, 11 representatives of Russian NGOs will be invited to the Czech Republic to become more familiar with civil society there. The program is designed to identify issues and develop programs for future cooperation and partnership.
The Foundation for the Support of Information Freedom Initiatives
$72,000*
To monitor government information resources and related practices, disseminate news and resources on the www.svobodainfo.org web site, and support litigation to secure greater public access to government information.
Foundation “Independent Press Center”
$50,000*
To operate its Press Center, which has working contacts with more than 80 leading NGOs that use the Center’s premises to organize press conferences, briefings, seminars and roundtables. These events provide Russian and foreign journalists with access to a wide variety of speakers on key political, economic and social issues.
Foundation - Public Commission for the Preservation of Academician Sakharov’s Heritage”
$90,000*
To organize its seventh annual “Interregional Contest of Teachers on the History of Political Repression in the USSR.” This event provides history teachers in schools across Russia with an opportunity to create an original lesson plan and supplementary materials on topics such as Stalinism, political repression, the gulag system, human rights and the dissident movement.
Friends of the CEELI Institute
$44,311*
To develop a strategy for greater advocacy on the subject of criminal prosecutions for war crimes committed during the conflict in Chechnya. The Institute will hold a workshop on international criminal law and international humanitarian law which will bring together Russian researchers, lawyers and human rights activists, and prominent western experts. The workshop will focus on a review of the existing research that has been conducted thus far and conduct strategic planning for the next stage of the project.
Institute of Public Affairs
$28,850*
To conduct a crossborder fellowship program for young Russian think tank analysts and NGO activists. The Warsaw-based IPA, one of Poland’s leading think tanks, will collaborate with the St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies “Strategia” (Strategy) to select young Russian fellows who will receive training, participate in a 12-day training and study visit to Poland, and produce and publish a policy paper.
Interregional Association of Human Rights Organizations “AGORA”
$60,000*
To provide legal and informational assistance to Russian activists and organizations that come under pressure from the authorities as a result of their work. AGORA will leverage its experience providing human rights groups with legal and informational support to continue its assistance to persecuted activists and organizations.
Interregional Non-Governmental Organization “Center for Information and Protection of Human Rights”
$50,000*
To support its operations including: maintaining exhibits on human rights; operating a library on the history of political repression; and providing a video center and an internet classroom for students and teachers studying human rights. It will also operate a public legal aid office, help teachers and NGO activists to develop teaching materials for young people, and offer management and financial training to NGO leaders.
Interregional Public Organization “Center for the Development of Social Partnership”
$50,000*
To continue its program of increasing citizen participation in local government in Yaroslavl region. In addition, the Center will evaluate the state of the civil society and suggest ways to make the work of NGOs more effective in cooperation with the local government and the Yaroslavl oblast Public Chamber.
Interregional Public Organization “Committee Against Torture”
$85,000*
To reduce the incidence of torture in Chechnya. The Committee will monitor and publicize cases of torture at the hands of law enforcement officials, and will offer legal aid to the victims.
Kabardino-Balkar Republic Public Human Rights Center
$45,000*
To continue its program of human rights activism in the predominantly Muslim republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus. The Center will render free legal aid; monitor the activity of the courts and encourage judicial, legal and other reforms that promote human rights and democracy; research Stalin-era crimes in Kabardino-Balkaria; and hold a series of roundtables and conferences to deepen local understanding of these issues.
Levada Center
$33,104*
To conduct two public opinion surveys, one prior to and one following the elections to the Moscow city Duma on October 11, 2009. The Levada Center will distribute information from its public opinion surveys to major national and international news agencies, and will publish an analytical report on the elections at the conclusion of the project.
MEMO 98
$54,274*
To monitor how the state-controlled media manipulates public opinion in Russia. In conjunction with the Moscow-based Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES), a NED grantee, the Slovakia-based MEMO will create a monitoring team in Russia, conduct a week-long training in Bratislava, and supervise a four-month long media monitoring program. The results of the monitoring will be disseminated at four press conferences and on the internet.
The Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights
$23,136*
To carry out a human rights monitoring and legal assistance program in Dagestan. Mothers of Dagestan staff will travel to the regions to collect information about instances of human rights violations throughout Dagestan. The organization will keep weekly office hours in its Makhachkala office to provide the citizens with free legal advice and defend the citizens’ interests in courts.
Murmansk Association of Women Journalists
$38,000*
To continue its efforts to develop independent journalism and increase the transparency of local government in northwest Russia. This year’s program will focus on the new federal law on the freedom of information, which was passed on February 9, 2009 and will go into effect on January 1, 2010.
Noncommerical Organization Fund “Kostromsky Center for the Support of Civic Initiatives” Project
$25,000*
To strengthen civil society in Kostroma and the Kostroma region by providing informational and practical support for local NGOs. The Center will carry out training seminars for NGO leaders, conduct joint press-conferences with regional NGOs, publish and distribute a newspaper, and will support a website with information for and about NGOs.
Non-Profit Organization “Information Agency ‘Memo.ru’”
$225,000*
To operate its Caucasus Switchboard website (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru), which provides news and analysis of events in the Caucasus, as well as information on the activities of civil society groups. Over the next two years, Memo.ru plans to continue improving the quality of the website’s journalism, and expand its outreach to an international audience with more frequent updates of the English-language version of the website.
Non-Profit Partnership “Lawyers for a Civil Society” (LSC)
$50,000*
To collect and publicize a collection of federal and regional laws that regulate the work of NGOs. LSC will also create a report to analyze the state of Russia’s civil society that will help identify the regions of Russia that either completely lack or have few laws that regulate the work of civil society organizations.
Nonviolence International
$50,000*
To help local officials in the North Caucasus to implement Federal Law #131, Russia’s law on local government. This law provides a significant degree of autonomy to rural and municipal governments in areas such as provision of social services, regulation of housing and utilities, and local economic development.
Perm City Public Organization “Center for Civic Education and Human Rights”
$54,000*
To introduce human rights and civic education classes into Russia’s schools and universities. As in the past, the program will involve training teachers and university professors, developing human rights and civic education curricula, and publishing teaching materials. The Center will update its database of social studies teachers in Perm region, and will expand its alumni network to communicate better with graduates of the program.
Prague Watchdog
$49,830
To promote human rights, humanitarian assistance and freedom of information in the North Caucasus. NED funding will be used to continue operating the Prague Watchdog website, a leading source of information on the political, military, economic and humanitarian situation in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other North Caucasus republics.
Pskov Regional Public Organization “Council of Soldiers’ Mothers”
$20,424*
To conduct human rights training and consultations for approximately 1,000 draftees, draft-age youth, servicemen, and their families in Pskov region.
Public Regional Organization “Kolskaya Association of Women Lawyers”
$30,000*
To defend victims of torture and degrading treatment in the Murmansk region, and to educate activists and officials to prevent and defend against such conduct. The organization will operate a crisis center for victims of torture and degrading treatment, submit legal appeals on their behalf, train human rights activists, and conduct seminars on human rights for civil society activists and government representatives in Murmansk oblast.
Regional Civic Initiative - The Right to Life and Human Dignity
$29,474*
To publish a quarterly journal Dosh (Word) that monitors human rights and provides commentaries about political and social life in the North Caucasus. Dosh has been published since 2003 and it is one of the most popular independent printed journals in Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Regional Civic Institute Research and Information Center Memorial
$50,000*
To collect and disseminate information on the activities of NGOs, as well as other important events for civil society in St. Petersburg and the Northwestern Federal District of Russia. St. Petersburg Memorial will create an informational and analytical website dedicated to human rights, ecology, and the preservation of unbiased information about the history of totalitarianism and repression in Russia.
Regional Civic Institute Research and Information Center Memorial
$40,000*
To begin the process of digitizing its vast historic archives to prevent further loss and make this vital historic information available to the general public. The project is expected to last three years, and Memorial plans to supplement or replace NED funding for the duration of the project.
Regional Civic Organization in Defense of Democratic Rights and Initiatives (GOLOS)
$75,234*
To increase citizens’ participation in the decision-making process by educating them and providing them with the necessary tools to advocate for their interests and protect their rights on a local level. GOLOS will conduct public hearings, signature collection campaigns, hold conferences and distribute brochures with the purpose of encouraging and publicizing issue based citizen activism in Russia’s regions.
Regional Non-Government Human Rights Organization “Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg”
$94,160*
To conduct its Human Rights School, as well as other workshops, for thousands of draft-age youth and conscripts. The organization will also continue to maintain a database on draftees and servicemen in order to track cases of human rights abuse at military bases across Russia.
Regional Non-Governmental Organization “International Protection Center”
$60,000*
To offer free legal representation and consultation to the victims of human rights violations in Russia. The Center will help individuals who have exhausted all available remedies under the Russian court system to pursue their cases through the European Court of Human Rights or the United Nations’ Committee on Human Rights.
Regional Public Organization “Information Research Center ‘PANORAMA’”
$65,000*
To support two teams of two young leaders from various pro-democratic organizations to undertake six months of part-time journalism work. Trainees will be chosen from youth branches of democratic political parties and civil movements such as Oborona, Young Yabloko, Young SPS, Young Republicans, I Think, Da!, Young United Civil Front, and the Social-Democratic Youth Union, as well as young journalists from independent newspapers.
Regional Public Movement “Chechen Committee for National Salvation” (CCNS)
$80,000*
To provide legal assistance to refugee populations in the cities of Nazran, Ingushetia, and Grozny, Chechnya. CCNS will also monitor human rights abuses.
Regional Public Organization for Assistance in Securing Public Information “Center for Public Information”
$70,000*
To continue to expand its network of regional partners who gather and disseminate information about human rights developments. The organization maintains regular contact with NGOs, the media and the Russian Human Rights Ombudsman’s office, which provide updates on human rights violations, the activities of human rights activists, and events and activities organized by other NGOs and public organizations.
Regional Public Organization “Independent Council of Legal Expertise”
$65,000*
To carry out a variety of activities related to the Russian legal system and the development of legislation through nongovernmental efforts. Political conditions in Russia have generally become less conducive to this type of program in recent years, as the legislative branch is now dependent on the executive, and input from NGOs is frequently not welcome in the legislative process.
Regional Public Organization for Promotion of Citizens’ Education “Information and Analysis Center ‘SOVA’”
$77,611*
To monitor, analyze, and disseminate information intended to oppose nationalism and xenophobia in Russia, as well as prevent the restriction of civil liberties in the name of anti-extremism.
Regional Public Organization “Mothers of Chechnya”
$58,541*
To offer legal aid and advice to the families of citizens who were kidnapped or disappeared during and after the two wars in Chechnya. Mothers of Chechnya will help relatives to continue searching for their missing relatives and press criminal charges or file civil suits in court. It will also continue to maintain and expand its database on cases of disappearance in Chechnya.
Regional Public Organization “St. Petersburg League of Women Voters”
$45,000*
To hold a series of seminars and round tables for young civic activists from six regions: Arkhangelsk, Vyborg, Kaliningrad, Pskov, Tver and St. Petersburg. The purpose of these seminars and roundtables will be to educate and train representatives of unregistered NGOs and civic initiatives in organizational capacity building.
Rostov City Non-Profit Organization “Eko-logika”
$25,000*
To help citizens engage the local bureaucracy to increase transparency and accountability. Eko-Logika will organize training seminars to teach participants how to request information from local government sources and continue operating its resource center, which provides the necessary office equipment and consultative support needed to submit such requests.
Rostov Regional Public Organization “League for Civil Rights Protection”
$45,924*
To encourage transparency and accountability in municipal budgeting processes. The project will involve education, evaluation, analytical, and information components.
Slovene Philanthropy
$75,129*
To expand a civic activism program for primary and secondary school children in Chechnya and Ingushetia. The Ljubljana-based “Slovene Philanthropy” will conduct one advanced and two basic training workshops for student mentors. The mentors will train up to 700 pupils in volunteerism and oversee their public service at local schools, hospitals, NGOs or in local communities. Copies of an informational leaflet and a Russian-language manual on Voluntary Work in Schools will distributed.
Slovene Philanthropy
$64,668
To continue a civic education and activism program for primary and secondary school students in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The Ljubljana-based NGO will train 60 teacher-mentors who will train and oversee up to 900 volunteers in 30 schools. It will also distribute 3,000 copies of an information leaflet about the program and hold a one-day regional conference that will bring together 100 teachers, NGO activists, youth activists and Ministry of Education employees.
St. Petersburg Public Organization “Environmental Human Rights Center ‘Bellona’”
$47,760*
To increase access to information about Russian human rights and environmental issues, and to encourage networking among NGOs. Bellona will maintain its website, www.bellona.ru, a valuable source of independent information for the NGO community, media and general public. During this year’s project, Bellona will also publish four print and electronic editions of its journal, Ekologia i Pravo (Ecology and the Law).
Sverdlovsk Oblast Public Organization “Parity”
$25,000
To educate young people about their rights and responsibilities as voters and increase political participation among young people in Sverdlovsk oblast. A major new component of the program will include providing local NGOs with information and practical skills about submitting cases of voter rights violations to the European Court of Human Rights. Parity will also publish two brochures on voter rights and conduct two seminars.
Transitions Online (TOL)
$81,326*
To expand the distance learning component of a crossborder program that fosters independent journalism in Russia. In cooperation with the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the Prague-based TOL will create four self-directed learning modules based on the News University curriculum to enhance its distance-learning program for Russian journalists. It will also organize two study and training visits to the Czech Republic for 48 Russian journalists.
Vladimir Oblast Intellectual Public Movement “Lebed”
$25,000*
To operate its website, Vibor33 (www.vibor33.ru) The web site presents political news from Vladimir in a simple but frequently-updated format, containing both factual news and analytical columns.
Zagranica Group
$40,548
To foster and increase cooperation between Russian and Polish civil society organizations. The Poland-based Group will organize a Polish-Russian Non-Governmental Forum that will bring 100 NGOs from Russia and Poland together in Warsaw. At the two-day meeting, organizations will participate in a number of workshops designed to identify issues and develop programs for future cooperation and partnership.
* Indicates Department of State funding beyond NED's annual appropriation
The grant listings posted here are from the 2009 Annual Report, published in June 2010.
HOME "Intellectual elite of the nation." Almost half of the country looks back on his noble roots. It has become fashionable in the case of cry of the innocent victims and exiled nobles. And, as usual, all the troubles this time blaming the Reds, who are so treated with the "elite". During the talk becomes invisible importantly - the victory in that struggle is still red, and in fact at war with them "elite" is not only Russia but also the strongest powers of the time.
Yes, and where to take the current "Precious Lord" that the nobles in the great Russian turmoil were always on the side of whites? Other nobles, such as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, for the proletarian Revolution did much more than Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
turn to the facts.
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7 November 1917 the Bolsheviks came to power. Russia at that time was still in a state of war with Germany and her allies. Do you want to or not, and must fight. Therefore, already 19 November 1917 the Bolsheviks appointed chief Staff of the Commander In Chief ... Hereditary nobleman, his Excellency Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Army, Mikhail Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich. It was he who led the armed forces of the Republic of the most difficult period for the country, from November 1917 to August 1918 and from disparate parts of the former Imperial Army and Red Guard detachments in February 1918 will form the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. From March to August, MD Bonch-Bruevich and will occupy the post of military Head of the Supreme Military Council of the Republic, and in 1919 - the chief of the Field Staff Roar. Mil. Council of the Republic.
At the end of 1918 was established the post of Chief all armed forces of the Soviet Republic. Please love and favor - his honor, Commander of all armed forces of the Soviet Republic Sergei Sergeyevich Kamenev (not to be confused with Kamenev, which then together with Zinoviev were shot). Personnel officer, graduated from the Academy of General Staff In 1907, Colonel of the Imperial Army. Since the beginning of 1918 to July 1919, Kamenev made a lightning career of the commander of an infantry division to the commander of the Eastern Front and, finally, in July 1919 and the end of the Civil War served as that during the Great Patriotic War, Stalin would occupy. Since July 1919. no operation of ground and naval forces of the Soviet Republic did not get along without his direct involvement. great help Sergei Sergeyevich helped his immediate subordinate - His Excellency the Chief of Field Staff of the Red Army Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev, Hereditary nobleman, Major-General of the Imperial Army. On as Chief of Field Staff, he was replaced by Bonch-Bruevich and from 1919 to 1921 (virtually the entire war), it was headed, and in 1921 was appointed Chief of Staff of the Red Army. Paul Pavlovich was involved in designing and conducting major operations of the Red Army to defeat the forces of Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, Wrangell, was awarded the Order Red Banner and Red Banner of Labour (at that time the highest awards of the Republic). We can not ignore a colleague Lebedev, head of the All-Russian Chief of Staff of His Excellency Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Samoilov. Aleksandr Aleksandrovich also hereditary nobleman and Major General of the Imperial Army. During the Civil War led military district, the army, front, worked at the Lebedev's deputy, and then headed Vseroglavshtab.
Is not it funny there is a tendency in the personnel policy of the Bolsheviks? It can be assumed that Lenin and Trotsky, picking up the Red Army high command staff, put an indispensable condition that it was hereditary nobles and regular officers of the Imperial Army with the rank of not lower than colonel. But, of course, it is not. Just a tough military time has advanced rapidly of professionals and talented people as quickly closing the various "revolutionary balabolok. Therefore, personnel policy of the Bolsheviks is quite natural, they had to fight and win now, time to learn was not. However, truly worthy of wonder that nobles and officers came to him, and even in such numbers, and served the Soviet government for the most part faithfully.
Workers 'and Peasants' Red Fleet is generally aristocratic institution. Here is a list of his commanders during the Civil War: Vasily Mikhailovich Altfater (hereditary nobleman, Rear-Admiral Imperial Navy), Yevgeny Andreyevich Berens (hereditary nobleman, Admiral of the Imperial Navy), Alexander Nemitts (personal data exactly the same). Yes there commanders, Naval General Staff Russian Navy almost in full force defected to the Soviet government, and stayed manage the entire fleet of the Civil War. Apparently, the Russian sailors after Tsushima perceived idea of monarchy, as they say, is ambiguous.
Here's what he wrote Altfater in his application for admission to the Red Army: "I served so far only because he thought it necessary to be useful to Russia, where I can, and so as I can. But I did not know and could not believe you. Even now I still do not understand much, but I'm convinced ... that you love Russia more than many of us. And now I come to tell you that I am yours. "I think These same words could be repeated Baron Alexander von Taube, head of Glavnogoshtaba Command of the Red Army in Siberia (former Lieutenant-General Imperial Army). Taube troops were defeated by Czechs in the summer of 1918, he was captured and soon died in prison in Kolchak's death row.
Auzhe later year, another "Red Baron"-Vladimir Olderogge (also hereditary nobleman, Major-General of the Imperial Army), from August 1919 to January 1920 Commander of the Eastern Front Reds - to achieve the Whites in the Urals, and eventually eliminated Kolchak.
In ETOGES time from July to October In 1919 another important front red - South - headed by his Excellency, the former lieutenant-general of the Imperial Army, Vladimir N. George. Troops under the command of Egoreva stop the advance of Denikin, hit him with a series of defeats and lasted until the arrival of reserves from the Eastern Front, which ultimately determined the final defeat of the Whites in South Russia. In these difficult months of fierce fighting on the southern front closest aide Egoreva was his deputy and at the same time the commander of a separate military groups Vladimir Selivachev (hereditary nobleman, Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Army).
As you know, summer and autumn of 1919 White planned to victoriously conclude the Civil War. To this end, they decided to apply the combined impact on all directions. However, by mid-October 1919 Kolchak the front was already a lost cause, there has been a turning point in favor of red and naYuge. At this point, White struck an unexpected blow from the northwest. Rushed to Petrograd Yudenich. The blow was so unexpected and powerful that in October were in the white suburbs of Petrograd. There was a question of surrender of the city. Lenin, in spite of certain panic in the ranks of his comrades, the city decided not to surrender. And now extends toward Yudenich 7-Red Army under the command of his excellency (former colonel in the Imperial Army), Sergei Dmitrievich Kharlamov, and the flank of the white comes to a separate group the same army under the command of His Excellency (Major-General of the Imperial Army), Sergei Ivanovich Odintsov. Both - of the hereditary nobility. The outcome of those events is known: in mid-October Yudenich still considered Red Petrograd in binoculars, and November 28 was unpacking suitcases in Revel.
This situation with the nobles and generals in the service of red everywhere. We say: all of you there are exaggerating. Bylizhe the Reds their talented captains and the nobles and generals. Yes, there were, their names we know well: Frunze Budyonny Chapaev Parkhomenko, Kotovsky, Schors. But what they were in the days of decisive battles? when deciding the fate of Soviet Russia in 1919, the most important was the eastern front (against Kolchak). Here is his commanders in chronological order: Stone, Samoilov, Lebedev, Frunze (26 days!) Olderogge. One of the proletarian and the four noble, let me emphasize - the all-important site! No, the merits of Mikhail Vasilyevich I do not want to belittle. He really talented leader and did much to defeat the same Kolchak, commanding one of the military groups of the Eastern Front. Then the Turkestan front under his Command crushed the counterrevolution in Central Asia, and the operation of crushing the Wrangel in the Crimea is deservedly recognized as a masterpiece of military art. But we valid: at the time of taking the Crimea even white no doubt in his life, the outcome of the war was finally resolved. Semyon Budyonny was the army commander his cavalry played a key role in several operations, some of the fronts. But we should not forget that the Red Army were dozens of armies, and call the contribution a are crucial in the victory it would still be a stretch. Nikolay Aleksandrovich Schors, Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev Gratsiansky Parkhomenko, Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky - Divisional Commander. Already because of this, for all his personal courage and military talents of the strategic contribution to the progress of the war they could not make.
So around our heroes emerged a peculiar conspiracy of silence in the Soviet years, and even more so - now. They won the Civil War, and quietly went into oblivion, leaving a yellowed operational maps and miserly line orders.
But "their excellencies" and "honor" shed their blood for the Soviets is not worse than the proletarians. About Baron Taube has already been mentioned, but this example is not unique.
the spring of 1919 in the battles of Yamburg Whites captured and executed by the Brigade Commander 19 Infantry Division of the former major-general of the Imperial Army, AP Nikolaev. The same happened in 1919, the commander 55 Infantry Division of the former Major-General A. Stankevich, in 1920 - commander of 13 Infantry Division of the former Major-General A. Sobolev. Remarkably, before the death of all the generals offered to join the whites, and all refused.
So you believe, tell us that the nobility and personnel officer corps were for the Reds?
Of course, we are far from this thought. It simply must be distinguished "gentleman" as a moral concept of "nobility" as a class. Nobiliary class was almost entirely in the camp of the white, otherwise it could not be. Sitting on the neck of the Russian people, they were very comfortable, and did not want to get off. True, white and assistance of the nobles was just miserable. Judge for yourself. In the watershed in 1919, around May, the number of strike groups of the White armies were as follows: Army Kolchak - 400 thousand man, the army of Denikin (Armed Forces of South Russia) - 150 thousand people, the army Yudenich (North-Western Army) - 18,5 thousand people. Total: 568.5 thousand people. Moreover
this is, basically, "lapotniki" from the villages, which are under threat of execution driven into the system and are then whole armies (!), like Kolchak, go to the Reds. And it is in Russia, where at that time, there were 2.5 million nobles, ie not less than 500 thousand men of military age! That seems to be shock troops of the counterrevolution ...
Or take, for example, leaders of the White Movement: Denikin - the son of an officer, his grandfather was a soldier; Kornilov - Cossack, Semenov - Cossack, Alekseev - the son of a soldier. From titled persons - one of only Wrangell, and he is a Swedish baron. Who's left? Kolchak was a gentleman, a descendant of Turkish prisoners, yes Yudenich with a very characteristic for "a Russian nobleman" name. In olden days the nobility of their own brethren in the class was defined as hudorodnyh. But "at no-fishy and cancer - Fish. Not look for Prince Golitsyn, Trubetskoy, Shcherbatov, Obolensky, Dolgorukov graphs Sheremetevs, eagles, Novosiltsev and among the less important white figures Vladislav Celina, Stanislav Fadeev Workers' and Peasants Imperial Army movement. Sat "nobles" in the rear, in Paris, Berlin, yes, and waited when one of their lackeys in the other lasso lead. Never came.
But there is a moral category - the "gentleman". Put yourself in the place of "his excellency" jumping to the side of Soviet power. On what he can expect? The greatest - the commander's ration so a pair of boots (an exclusive luxury in the Red Army rank and file in bast shoes). In this case, the suspicion and distrust of many "friends" constantly vigilant eye next Commissioner. Compare that to 5000 rubles annual salary of Major-General of the tsarist army, and in fact many excellencies was still family ownership before the revolution. Therefore, the selfish interest for such people is excluded, one thing remains - the honor of a nobleman and a Russian officer. Best of the nobility went to red - to save the fatherland.
In the days of the Polish invasion in 1920 Russian army officers, including nobles, to the side of Soviet power in the thousands. Representatives from the top generals of the former Imperial Red Army created a special body - the Special Meeting of the commander in chief of all the Armed Forces of the Republic. The purpose of this organ development Recommendations for Red Army commanders and the Soviet government to repel the Polish aggression. In addition, a special meeting appealed to the former officer of the Russian Imperial Army to speak to defend the homeland in the ranks of the Red Army. Wonderful words of this reference, perhaps, to fully reflect the moral position the best part of the Russian aristocracy:
«At this critical historical moment in our national life, we, your senior comrades, call to your feelings of love and devotion for the country and appeal to you with the urge to forget all the insults, \u0026lt;...> to volunteer with a complete self-sacrifice and hunting in the Red Army to the front or the rear, where the government of the Soviet Workers 'and Peasants' Russia you are not appointed, and serve it not for fear but for conscience; so that his honest service, not sparing the life, to defend by all means important to us to Russia and not allow it to plunder. " A petition signed by their Excellency: cavalry general (chief of the Russian Army in May-July 1917) Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov General of Infantry (Defense Minister of the Russian Empire in 1915-1916.) Alexei A. Polivanov General of Infantry Andrew Meandrovicha Zayonchkovsky and many others General of the Russian Army.
In absolute terms, the contribution of Russian officers in the victory of Soviet power as follows: during the Civil War the Red Army was intended to 48,500 imperial officers and generals. In the final in 1919 they accounted for 53% of Red Army commanders.
Finish short review, we would like examples of human lives, which could not be better refute the myth of the pathological wickedness Bolsheviks and the extermination of noble estates in Russia. I will note once the Bolsheviks were not stupid, so understand that, considering the plight of Russia, they really need people with the knowledge, talents and conscience. And such people could expect to honor and respect by the Soviet authorities, despite the origins and pre-revolutionary life.
begin with His Excellency General of Artillery Aleksei Alekseevich Manikovsky. Alexey A. back in the First World War led Main Artillery Directorate of the Russian Imperial Army. After the February Revolution was appointed deputy (deputy) minister of war. Since War Minister of the Provisional Government Guchkov nothing was thinking in military matters, Manikovsky had become the de facto head of the department. In a memorandum October night in 1917 Manikovsky was arrested along with other members of the Provisional Government, and then released. A few weeks later again arrested and again released in conspiracies against the Soviet power has not been noticed. And in 1918 he headed the Red Army Main Artillery Directorate, then will work on various staff positions of the Red Army.
Or, for example, His Excellency Lieutenant-General of the Soviet Army Count Alexis A. Ignatiev. During the First World War, he was major general served as a military attaché in France and was in charge of weapons purchases, the fact that the tsarist government has prepared the country for a war that even the bullets had to be bought abroad. During that Russia pay a lot of money, and they lay in the western banks.
After October, our loyal allies instantly laid a paw on the Russian property abroad, including in the government accounts. However, Alexei A. oriented himself quickly, and French money transferred to another account, the Allies is not available, besides its name. And money was 225 million rubles gold, or $ 2 billion at current gold rate. Ignatieff did not succumb to the entreaties of the transfer of any part of the whites, nor from the French. After France established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, he came to the Soviet Embassy and modestly handed a check for full amount with the words: "These the money belongs to Russia. " The emigrants were furious, they decided to kill Ignatieff. And the murderer volunteered to be his own brother! Ignatieff miraculously alive - a bullet pierced his hat in a centimeter from his head.
offered each of you mentally try on a cap, Count Ignatiev and think about whether you can on this? And if we add to this that during the revolution, the Bolsheviks confiscated the family estate Ignatiev and family mansion in St. Petersburg? And the last thing I would say. Remember how at one time accused Stalin attributed to him that he killed all the remaining Russian tsarist officers and former nobles. So none of our heroes are not subjected to reprisals, all died a natural death (of course, but fallen in the Civil War) in the glory and honor. And their younger comrades, such as: Col. BM Shaposhnikov, Staff Captain, AM Wasilewski and FI Tolbukhin, Lieutenant LA He says - have become Marshal of the Soviet Union.
"Resuscitation Stories, Vladislav Celina, Stanislav Fadeev http://nnm.ru/blogs/rus001/raboche-krestyanskaya_imperatorskaya_armiya/
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