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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.

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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.

As Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported, starting from 15 January 2015 Russian authorities supported the foundation of the pro-governmental movement "Antimaidan", which will fight with the dissidents, support the extrajudicial reprisal against Russian opposition, courts started to sentence to the maximum periods of arrest - 30 days, the criminal prosecution for the expression of the civil position.

According to the experts of the Association, 15 January 2015, Russian mass-media announced the foundation of the organization "Antimaidan", which was initiated by Alexander Zaldostanov (Russian biker, the leader of the movement “Night wolves”, the owner of the night club in Moscow), a member of the Federation Council Dmitry Sablin (the relative of the ex-governor of Moscow region, Russian oligarch), Nazi writer Nikolai Starikov. The movement, as the founders said, will fight with the so-called "color revolutions". According to the initiators of the movement, in fact, aimed to combat the dissents, the aggressive organized groups of supporters of the authorities will be participate at all the actions that they will be regarded as anti-state and make “certain actions” (http://ria.ru/society/20150115/1042688858.html). During the press-conference the speakers called to fight against dissents, some groups of citizens, called to kill LGBTQ-people, as a blogger said https://twitter.com/adagamov/status/555706167788580864.

As the press service of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights said, since August 1, 2014 the Istanbul Convention has been come into force. The Istanbul Convention is aimed to the protection of woman from domestic violence. Russian human rights defenders consider, that the Istanbul  Convention should be ratified by Russia. 
The specialists of the Association have prepared the proposals and formally addressed to the Russian lawmakers and drew their attention on necessity to ratify the Istanbul Convention.
The working group of the experts noted, that the Istanbul Convention provides for a set of necessary measures that will solve many of the problems and causes of discrimination against women and violence, inequality, etc. Thus, the Convention is based on the interests of the victims, and contains a comprehensive set of practical tools that can help improve response by all relevant actors. The Convention requires Parties responsible for the prevention of violence, protection of victims and prosecution of perpetrators of violence, and are obliged to adopt the measures necessary for the formation of a comprehensive policy in these areas, and women will get more opportunities.