On 17 December, the Russian Human Rights Commissioner’s ‘Hasten to Do Good’ medal award took place in Moscow. The award’s criteria are commitment, heroism and courage displayed under the circumstances of a threat to human rights and freedoms.
On 29 October 2014, the day before the state Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova opened the annual ceremony called ‘Retrieving the Names’.
On 28 October 2014, in Moscow, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova held a meeting with the officials from regional human rights commissioners’ offices.