Focus Countries - Russia

Recent Grants

Universities and Scholarly Infrastructure
Human Rights

Universities and Scholarly Infrastructure

Number of Grants: 26

Academic Educational Forum on International Relations (Moscow, Russia)
$40,000 to support an alumni conference and evaluation of the Forum's training programs. (2011)

Academic Educational Forum on International Relations (Moscow, Russia)
$175,000 to support development of a new generation of international relations expertise in Russia and the CIS. (2010)

American Councils for International Education (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 to develop North American fundraising capacity for the European Humanities University (over three years). (2009)

American Friends of the New Economic School (University Park, Pennsylvania)
$600,000 to establish two new professorships at the New Economic School (over three years). (2009)

Analytical Center of Juri Levada (Saratov, Russia)
$150,000 in support of the project, Monitoring of Social and Economic Transformations in Russia. (2009)

Autonomous non-profit organization "Transnational Family Research Institute/R" (Moscow, Russia)
$180,000 to support Demoscope, the biweekly electronic journal on demographic issues (over three years). (2009)

Bureau of Economic Analysis (Moscow, Russia)
$100,000 to support research on the middle class in Russia (over 14 months). (2009)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support the policy journal, "Pro et Contra" (over three years). (2010)

Center for Anthropological Research (Krasnodar, Russia)
$75,000 to research the impact of globalization on ethnic villages in rural Russia (over two years). (2009)

Center for Independent Social Research and Education (Irkutsk, Russia)
$175,000 to support a research project on the societal role of universities in provincial Russia (over three years). (2010)

Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies (Saratov, Russia)
$300,000 to support a comparative analysis of social policy processes in the post-socialist space (over three years). (2010)

Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire (Kazan, Russia)
$290,000 in support of the journal, "Ab Imperio" (over 42 months). (2011)

Center of Applied Research and Programs (Moscow, Russia)
$150,000 to support Russia's participation in the European Social Survey. (2010)

Charities Aid Foundation (Kent, United Kingdom)
$150,000 to support information and consulting services to nongovernmental organizations (over two years). (2009)

Friends of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Manchester, United Kingdom)
$400,000 to support graduate training and research in the social sciences. (2011)

George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
$310,000 in support of PONARS Eurasia (over three years). (2011)

Gorbachev Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
$180,000 to study Russian federalism and to include perspectives from the regions of Russia (over three years). (2009)

Higher School of Economics Centre for Labour Market Studies (Moscow, Russia)
$350,000 to support the Labor Market Informality in Russia: An Economic-Sociological Perspective project (over two years). (2009)

Independent Institute for Social Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$170,000 to support the journal "SPERO" (over three years). (2011)

Independent Institute for Social Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$250,000 to analyze the effects of the economic crisis on social policy formation in modern Russia (over two years.) (2009)

Institute of Law and Public Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$375,000 to promote legal consciousness and legal reform in Russia (over three years). (2009)

Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
$600,000 to support the Center for Sociological Education's training program in the social sciences and humanities for young Russian regional university faculty and researchers (over three years). (2010)

Nordic Council of Ministers (Copenhagen, Denmark)
$600,000 in support of the European Humanities University Trust Fund (over three years). (2009)

Perm State University Department of Political Science (Perm, Russia)
$225,000 to support, The Struggle for Identity and New Institutions of Communication project (over three years). (2009)

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Arlington, Virginia)
$750,000 to expand the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia (over three years). (2009)

World Security Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 to support"Johnson's Russia List" , a daily electronic digest of news and analysis on political, economic, and security developments in Russia (over two years). (2010)

Human Rights

Number of Grants: 20

All Russian Public Movement for Human Rights (Moscow, Russia)
$150,000 to support research on human rights abuses in child care facilities and the federal penitentiary system (over two years). (2010)

American Friends of the New Economic School (University Park, Pennsylvania)
$600,000 to establish a research center on new media and society at the New Economic School (over two years). (2011)

Amnesty International - International Secretariat (London, United Kingdom)
$265,000 to support a project entitled, Protection and Promotion of Human Rights in the Russian Federation (over two years). (2010)

Central-Blacksoil Center for Protection of Media Rights (Voronezh, Russia)
$300,000 to protect media rights in Russia (over three years). (2009)

Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 to work with regional and municipal public authorities and the mass media to combat gender discrimination through the implementation of existing laws in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2010)

Dos'e na Tsenzuru (Moscow, Russia)
$90,000 to support a human rights journal and its quarterly publication covering human rights violations in the criminal justice and penitentiary system. (2010)

European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$400,000 to conduct research on the functioning of the court system in Russia (over two years). (2010)

Glasnost Defense Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 to advance media freedom in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2011)

Glasnost Defense Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
$125,000 to monitor violations of mass media rights in the Russian Federation. (2009)

Human Rights Resource Center (St Petersburg, Russia)
$375,000 to provide legal support to Russian NGOs and promote the professional growth of these organizations (over three years). (2010)

Kazan Human Rights Center (Kazan, Russia)
$250,000 to combat police abuse in Russia (over three years). (2010)

Moscow Guild of Theater and Screen Actors (Moscow, Russia)
$255,000 in support of the Stalker International Human Rights Film Festival (over three years). (2011)

Moscow Helsinki Group (Moscow, Russia)
$400,000 to strengthen the human rights movement by monitoring human rights in Russia and to continue development of a regional monitoring network (over two years). (2009)

Nizhny Novgorod Regional Non-Governmental Organization Committee Against Torture (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia)
$375,000 to combat police abuse in Russia (over three years). (2010)

Public Interest Law Institute (New York, New York)
$495,000 to produce a report on the current state of legal education in Russia (over three years). (2009)

Public Verdict Fund (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 to combat torture and promote police reform in Russia (over three years). (2009)

Ryazan Memorial Historical, Educational and Human Rights Advocacy Society (Ryazan, Russia)
$225,000 in support of a website providing coverage of human rights in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2011)

Sutiazhnik Public Association (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
$300,000 in support of a project entitled, Strategic Implementation of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Russian Courts (over three years). (2009)

University of Minnesota Human Rights Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
$150,000 in support of the Russian Human Rights Library (over two years). (2009)

Women of the Don Region (Novocherkask, Russia)
$300,000 to promote reform of the regional police force (over three years). (2010)