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According to the press service of tAssociation of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights, the Association’s specialists work with information from official sources on the bill introduced by a group of Russian senators on July 14, 2020, which will forbid people who have changed their gender in documents to make changes to birth certificate and other documents, also the bill will actually violate medical and judicial secrets. In addition, they said, the text of the bill includes amendments requiring all citizens to prove before marriage that they have a genetic gender, i.e. submit a certificate of analysis for the karyotype (number and structure of chromosomes). According to human rights activists, people with a genetic or hormonal disorder will also lose the opportunity to marry.

According to human rights activist Maria Arkhipova, the intervention provided for by the bill in private life will lead to large-scale violations of human rights and freedoms, will become an instrument for destroying families, careers, existing lives of people who have been married for decades and have children, such a bill, if adopted, will form a criminal the practice of placing people in isolation on the basis of sex at birth - women will end up in men's prisons and vice versa. As Maria Arkhipova explained, such a law, if adopted, is a crime against humanity and is comparable to the Holocaust against Jews and is analogous to the Nuremberg law of 1935, which in turn is the basis for the formation of a tribunal if adopted.

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According to the press service of the Association of Russian Lawyers  for Human Rights, on April 6, 2020, US President Donald Trump signed a document that guarantees property of resources extracted in space. According to human rights defenders, the initiative is useful for the development of outer space and private space companies.

In connection with the US initiative, the chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers  for Human Rights, Maria Arkhipova (Bast), published a video explaining the importance of the signed document for space exploration in comparison with the outdated Agreement on the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies in 1979 (text of the document on the link https://undocs.org/en/A/RES/34/68).

As explained by Maria Arkhipova (Bast), the guarantee of property in space will arouse interest in space exploration and resource extraction by private companies. Moreover, Maria Arkhipova welcomed similar decisions previously made by Luxembourg, as well as Ukraine at the end of 2019. According to Maria Arkhipova, the interest in space of private companies previously relied on government orders, in the new conditions, commercial organizations will be able to start implementing their own programs aimed at new technologies for the extraction and processing of resources, and profit from new activities.

As the human rights defender stressed, the right to property is a human right, and this right should be ensured both at the level of private space organizations and at the level of legal mechanisms that allow the use of both guaranteed law at the level of international law and national law of the aforementioned states.

Chairman of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights, the lawyer, human rights defender and professional manager in the space industry Maria Bast, recorded a video statement to countries and peoples in connection with the spread of coronavirus.

On the photo: Maria Bast, lawyer, manager of Space Administration

According to Maria Bast, coronavirus is a crisis of human civilization, and if people want to defeat the coronavirus and subsequent problems and disasters on Earth, then humanity must join resources and efforts and explore space, expand the human environment, and make space a comfortable living environment. According to Maria Bast, the problem of overpopulation on Earth has made itself felt, and mankind has the opportunity to save not only their lives, but also all life on Earth, if humanity is exploring space, creating its bases in orbit, on satellites and other planets.

More details in video by Maria Bast

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As the press service of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported the activists of the Organizing Committee of the left forces planned the protest "Science instead of religion" in Gorki Leninskie 21 February 2015.

The activists said, that the main goal of the protest is the protest against the interference of the Church in the affairs of the state, against the violation of the principle of secularism and against the construction of the temple in front of the Museum of Vladimir Lenin in in Gorki Leninskie.
As the press service said, the Organizing Committee of the left forces issued a video in which the activists speak about the building of the temple at the entrance to Museum of Vladimir Lenin.
The protest "Science instead of religion" planned 21 February 2015, from 14.00 to 15.00 Moscow times, the place of the protest - Gorki Leninskie Moscow region, Leninsky district, the main entrance to the Museum-Rreserve Gorki Leninskie.
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As the press service of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported, that the protests against the demolition of the monument "Walking Lenin and against the attempts of the commercial construction of the cottages and warehouses at the territory of Gorki Leninskie were held 24 January 2015.

on the photo: Maria Bast, chairwoman of Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights
The protests were timed to the day of the funeral of Lenin, the activists commemorated Lenin, holding pickets around the historic route - at the southern entrance to the Gorki Leninskie

on the photo: the southern entrance to the Gorki Leninskie, 24.01.2015

- on the route of the funeral procession of Lenin to the railway station Gerasimovo (Leninskaya) and near the monument "Walking Lenin" at Kashirskoye high-way.