We invite interested listeners to the next expert webinar organized by ADC Memorial in partnership with the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICIPR) on the relevant issues of protecting the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Recently, activists and human rights defenders working on the rights of Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, climate change, and environmental rights have faced unprecedented repression in Russia. Dozens of activists across the country were interrogated and searched, many were forced to emigrate urgently, the activists Daria Egereva and Natalia Leongardt have been under arrest for several months. These persecutions are related to the recognition of dozens of organizations and groups with ethnic, Indigenous, and regional agendas as “extremist” and “terrorist” in 2024-25. Following the same scheme, on April 9, 2026, the Russian Supreme Court recognized the Memorial movement as “extremist”, thus criminalizing all “Memorials” and all their supporters. In these circumstances, activists and human rights defenders must be prepared for the challenges and risks targeting their physical and digital security.

• Digital security in the face of repression, surveillance, and lockdowns
• Physical security of activists in emergency situations
• International solidarity campaigns as a tool to protect activists and human rights defenders from repression

• Marry Michurova, Saami Indigenous people activist faced repressions in December 2025
• Timofei Dubrovskih, expert in the field of digital security, member of the Council of the Human Rights Center Memorial, researcher at RKS Global
• Dima Starover, human rights defender, expert on security issues
• Natalia Sineaeva, expert from NEVER AGAIN Association

📅 Date:  18 April 2026, 18.00 CET
🗣 Language: Russian

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