Boris Altshuler, physicist and human rights defender, lives in Moscow. He is director of the NGO Right of the Child and co-founder of the Positive Childhood Association. Boris Altshuler is a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and of the Public Chamber of Russia. 

 

 

 

Galina Arapova lives in Voronezh and is director and senior media lawyer of the NGO Mass Media Defence Centre, working in the field of media rights protection and the promotion of freedom of expression standards in Russia.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina is a journalist, writer and executive secretary of Russian Union of Journalists.  

 

Aleksei Babii lives in Krasnoyarsk and is chair of the Krasnoyarsk Memorial Society.

 

 

 

 

Andrei Blinushov lives in Ryazan, is chair of Ryazan Memorial, a member of the board of the International Memorial Society, and  director and editor-in-chief of the internet portal Human Rights in Russia.  

Pavel Chikov, PhD, MPA, LLM, lives in Kazan and is chairperson of AGORA, an association of human rights organizations.

Yuri Dzhibladze lives in Moscow and is president of the Centre for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights, a Moscow-based public policy and advocacy NGO which he founded in 1998. He is also a member of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights.

 

Svetlana Gannushkina lives in Moscow. A member of the board of the Memorial Human Rights Centre and of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, she heads the Civic Assistance Committee for refugees and IDPs and Memorial's Migration Rights Network.

 

Olga Gnezdilova lives in Voronezh and is a barrister working with Lawyers for Civil Rights.

 

Elena Grishina lives in Moscow and is director of the Centre for Public Information. She is also editor of the Chronicle of the Moscow Helsinki Group and author of a textbook on public relations for NGOs.

 

Igor Kalyapin lives in Nizhny Novgorod and is chair of Committee Against Torture, a non-profit combating police abuse.

Maria Kanevskaya lives in St. Petersburg and is director of the NGO Human Rights Resource Centre providing legal and other services to NGOs in Russia.

 

 

 

Sergei Lukashevsky lives in Moscow and is director of the Sakharov Museum and Public Centre. 

 

Dmitry Makarov, born in Orel, Russia, is a member of the Coordinating Council of international Youth Human Rights Movement. He also works as a program coordinator for Moscow Helsinki Group and coordinates joint work on fundamental rights.

 

Veronika Marchenko is chair of the board of the charitable foundation Mother’s Right, a non-profit working to protect the rights of parents of soldiers who die in service. Veronika Marchenko has held this position since she inspired the creation of Mother's Right in 1989. She lives in Moscow. 

Alyona Ob'ezdchikova lives in Voronezh and is director of the Interregional Human Rights Group,  an NGO working in the sphere of human rights advocacy; freedom of information, assembly and association; public oversight and reform of law-enforcement bodies; and human rights education. She is a member of the Public Council of the Voronezh Police Department and a member of the board of the European network FLARE.