During the pandemic High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova was approached by Chelyabinsk Human Rights Commissioner for assistance to citizen T. in returning her daughter to Russia from Vietnam. The federal ombudswoman scrutinized the situation and sent a request to the emergency response center for preventing the spread of the new coronavirus in Russia.…

On July 3, as a result of assistance of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russian Federation, lawyer Vladimir Zubkov was released from custody. As a result of media monitoring, the federal ombudswoman became aware about the violation prisoner’s rights. On July 2, the newspaper «Kommersant» published an article named «Cancellation of Sentence is Not a Reason for Release», which reported about failures by the…

On March 27, High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova received an appeal from Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia Arman Tatoyan with a request to assist in the reunification of the Armenian family, which was in a difficult life situation as a result of quarantine. According to the appeal, the applicants, as Armenian citizens, were unable to fly to Russia at their…