Moscow The Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation has been getting some depressing reports about the state of democracy in the Russian Federation. United Russia, the governing party of Putin, is pretty much the single dominant part to the degree that over the last year Putin allowed the creation of an “opposition” party and made the appointments …
Month: September 2007
Biggest and Best NGOs
Moscow It is hard to imagine Sergey Tsyplenkov and Valentina Melnikova in the same room much less in the same sentence, but after meetings with each of them on two different days in Moscow they are linked in my mind as the creme of the non-profit crop in Moscow despite their differences. Sergey …
Russian Housing Issues
Moscow Carine Clement directs a small NGO with five staff called the Institute for Collective Action in Moscow that supports nascent movements building around housing and other issues throughout Russia. It was hard not to continually think about the fact that she was a French woman who had come to the country a dozen years …