In the summer of 2017, environment and climate team of DRA e.V. met passionate environmental activist Dmitry Zakarlyukin from Chelyabinsk at EuropeLab in Gdansk. The citizens of the industrial city of Chelyabinsk are suffering from enormous air pollution and have no access to objective data on the state of the air.
December 28th, 2017 Andrei Rudomakha and his colleagues were violently attacked in Krasnodar.
Andrey Rudomakha is an activist, manager of the NGO Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC). He took part at protection of such environmental objects as Bolshoy Thach mountain, was also active against construction of the ski resort "Lagonaki" in the territory of Caucasus Nature Resort.
We have lost a true man and an expert of unique significance. It is the end of an era not only for the Memorial, but also for the Russian and European public. DRA is bereft of a close friend and colleague who accompanied our work from the very start.
On 4th December 2017 in Vienna, civil society organisations and activists from Ukraine, Russia and other European countries founded a joint international platform to push for peace and the rule of law in eastern Ukraine.
DRA together with partner NGOs is organizing a session “Enhancing the impact of civil society in the Donbas Conflict” on 6 December 2017 (2-3.30 pm).
In the East of Ukraine more strategic cooperation of different actors is necessary in order to strengthen civil society’s impact on the process of conflict resolution. This was a key message of the side event “Enhancing civil society’s impact in Donbas” on 15 Sept. 2017 in the framework of the HDIM conference of the OSCE 2017 in Warsaw.
The report on the results of the strategic seminar «Involving civil society on the conflict resolution process in Donbas», which was held in Warsaw on June 26-28, 2017, was published.
A Seminar for participants from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia for sports journalists, organizers of fan-activities, and fan liaison officers from football clubs.
Berlin – 14. – 21. of September 2017
The peace talks regarding the conflict in Eastern Ukraine have been deadlocked for months, while the interpretation and the implementation of the Minsk agreements remain a point of contestation.
The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum (CSF) is looking for a Project Coordinator for its Secretariat (full-time, 16.5 months) with obligations in the field of CSF project work.
