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As the representatives of the Organizing Committee of the left forces reported, the protest  "Science instead of religion" was held in Gorki Leninskie in Moscow region 21 February 2015, where the left wing activists protested against the construction of the temple opposite the entrance to the Museum of Vladimir Lenin.

on the photo: the slogan "Science instead of religion", the protest against the constuction opposite the entrance to the Museum of Vladimir Lenin, 21 February 2015

The protest took place at the square in front of the temple.

on the photo: the slogan "Take away the temple, priest!", 21 February 2015

As the activists told, the representatives of the Organizing Committee of the left forces held in their hands the posters with slogans "Science instead of religion", "Take away the temple, priest", "Mind against religion" etc.

on the photo: the slogan "Mind against religion", 21 February 2015

As the press-service of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported, the specialists of the Association received a complaint from the director of the Museum-Preserve Gorki Leninskie in the Leninsky district of Moscow region about the construction of an Orthodox church at the entrance to the museum of Vladimir Lenin.

The construction is carried out almost in front of the Museum of Lenin. The activists of leftist movements also confirmed the information, the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights said.

According to the activists, 01 February 2015 the protest "Science instead of religion!"  was held near the the entrance to the Museum-Preserve Gorki Leninskie. During the protest the activists expressed their attitude to construction, which violated the principle of the separation of church from the state in Russia. According to the activists, the posters of the activists were "Science instead of religion", "Do not touch Lenin, etc.

As the press service of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported, 18 January 2015 Chairwoman of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights Maria Bast expressed her position and opposed the repression and extrajudicial reprisal. Maria Bast held a picket  in Moscow on Revolution Square. As  Maria Bast said, the perimeter of the square was surrounded by police, the police permitted the cars. Picket, as Bast reported, lasted for 15 minutes, the police patrolled the square and did not interfere. Maria Bast held in her hands  a poster, which called to stop the repression and supported Mark Halperin, who are in temporary detention facility on 38 days.

on the photo: Maria Bast, Moscow, 18 January 2015

According to Maria Bast, she is not share the political views are of Mark Halperin, and the picket has the human rights character, because as chairwoman of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights Maria Bast is concerned in connection with the start of the practice of arrests maximum duration for a single picket in Russia and in connection with the beginning of widespread use of extrajudicial reprisal and reprisals against the opposition with the liberal views.

Maria Bast comment:

As the press-service of the Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights said, 06 January 2015 Russian Government adopted the decision №1604 "About the list of the medical contraindications, medical conditions and medical restrictions to driving", which significantly restricted the rights of LGBT people, people with limb amputation and rare, including and hereditary eye diseases, people shorter than 150 cm to drive a vehicle. All these groups may stay without the driving license.
First time Russia included to the list of medical contraindications to driving the group of diseases, according to the International Classification of Diseases №10, the personality disorders and behavior in adulthood F60 - F69. All transgender people, bigender, asexuals, transvestites, crossdressers, people who need in a sex reassignment were recognized by Russian Government as a people with the deviations. The state deprived these groups their rights to drive a vehicle.

on the photo: Alexander Peskov, Russian parodist

As a press-service of Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights reported, roundtable "Women's Rights in Russia and abroad" held in Moscow July 10, 2014 in press center “Moskovsky Komsomolets”.

Chairwomen of Association of Russian Lawyers for Human Rights, Russian Top-Lawyer Maria Bast invited the experts for the discussion “Women's Rights in Russia and abroad".
The roundtable gathered the representatives of different women’s movies and human rights defenders, assistants of MP of the Russian State Duma, representatives of the Council of Europe in Russia.
Maria Bast opened the discussion and proposed all to express their position on women's rights in Russia: respect and observance of women’s rights in Russia, the problem of idealization of the situation with women’s rights in EU, the critical attitude to the information from EU.

on the photo: Maria Bast, July 10 2014
Maria Bast stressed, that Russia was the locomotive at the beginning of the XX century for women’s rights in the world. As Maria Bast said, that Great October Revolution of 1917 brought women rights, women become the subjects of law, women got the right to vote. The achievements of Soviet Women triggered a wave of feminism around the world.

on the photo: Svetlana Gannushkina