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Raids, repression, political persecution, mobilization and conscription – a list of organizations that help people in the most difficult situations.
Help conscripts and military personnel
• Go through the woods – help avoid mobilization and military service or desert.
• Military lawyers – help to understand army legislation and provide legal assistance.
• Conscript School – protects the rights of conscripts, military personnel and alternative employees.
• Conscious objector movement – helps Russians avoid military service.
• Appeal to conscience – help to refuse military service for reasons of conscientiousness.
Help those persecuted for political reasons
• OVD-Info – protect those persecuted for anti-war statements and participation in public events.
• For human rights – helping political prisoners.
• Vyvozhuk – help politically persecuted people leave Russia.
• Paddy wagon LIVE – helping defendants in criminal cases.
• Open space – support activists and activists.
Help in a collision with the state
• Anti-torture team – protect victims from torture.
• Public verdict – provide legal assistance to victims of the arbitrariness of security forces.
• First department – defend those accused of treason.
Helping victims of online speech
• Roskomsvoboda – protect those who are persecuted for statements or activities on the Internet.
• Network Freedoms – provide legal assistance in cases of freedom of expression.
• Center for the Protection of Media Rights – provides legal assistance to journalists, bloggers and photographers.
Helping prisoners
• Sitting Russia – protect the rights of convicts and their families.
• Support for political prisoners. Memorial – provide legal assistance to political prisoners and support their families.
• Solidarity zone – support those persecuted for anti-war actions.
• Woman.Jail.Society – protect the rights of women, children and other vulnerable groups of prisoners.
Help collect money to pay fines
• Picketman – collect money for fines for single pickets.
• Golden Key – provide psychological and financial assistance to anti-war students and teachers.
• Rosshtraf – help to collect money to pay fines for publications on social networks and participation in events.
Help LGBTQ+
• LGBTQ+ group “Coming Out” – provide psychological, legal and other consultations, conduct cases in court.
• Sphere Foundation – provide social and legal support, including emergency support.
• Center T – working to improve the quality of life of trans* people in Russia.
• Queer Sweet – helps LGBTQ+ and BIPOC people affected by the war.
• Crisis group SK SOS – help those facing danger to life, persecution and violence in the North Caucasus.
• Guys+ – provides information about LGBTQ+ sexual health and family life.
Protect women’s rights
• Center “Violence.Net” – help victims of domestic violence.
• Consortium of women’s non-governmental associations – provide legal support for victims of domestic violence throughout Russia.
• Center “Sisters” – helps survivors of sexual violence.
• Marem – help women from the North Caucasus republics who have suffered from domestic violence.
• Silsila – protect migrant women, refugees and representatives of Eastern cultures in Russia from domestic violence.
Help migrants, refugees and war victims
• Helping to Leave – helping Ukrainians leave the combat zone.
• Civic assistance – protect the rights of migrants and refugees.
• First line— tell you how to evacuate, relocate and protect yourself from persecution
• Every Human Being – helping victims of the war in Ukraine.
