Focus Countries - Russia

Recent Grants

Universities and Scholarly Infrastructure
Human Rights

Universities and Scholarly Infrastructure

Number of Grants: 33

Academic Educational Forum on International Relations (Moscow, Russia)
$500,000 to strengthen the scholarly field of international relations in Russia (over three years). (2008)

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 Councils for International Education (Washington, D.C.)
$150,000 in support of upgrading information and communications security at the European Humanities University (over three years). (2007)

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.)
$375,000 in support of the journal Pro et Contra (over three years). (2007)

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)
$300,000 in support of a project on improving social science research and education in universities of Siberia and the Russian far East (over three years). (2007)

Center for Russian Environmental Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$450,000 to develop regional mechanisms for developing and implementing Russia's environmental policy (over three years). (2007)

Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies (Saratov, Russia)
$300,000 in support of research and analysis on social policy reforms in contemporary Russia and publication of the "Journal of Social Policy Studies" (over three years). (2008)

Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire (Kazan, Russia)
$240,000 in support of the journal, Ab Imperio (over three years). (2008)

Centre for Independent Social Research (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$600,000 in support of activities aiming to improve policy-relevant social science research and education in Russia (over five years). (2007)

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

European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$100,000 in support of maintenance expenses for the European University at St. Petersburg. (2008)

European University at St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$500,000 in support of development activities (over two years). (2007)

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)
$250,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2009)

Independent Institute for Social Policy (Moscow, Russia)
$330,000 in support of a sociological data archive and related training program, and the SPERO journal of social policy research (over three years). (2007)

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 in support of an educational program in the social sciences and humanities for young Russian regional university faculty and researchers (over three years). (2007)

JSTOR (New York, New York)
$174,000 in support of electronic access to archived journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities for selected universities in Russia (over six years). (2007)

Kharkov Center for Gender Studies (Kharkov, Ukraine)
$330,000 in support of the Russia/NIS university network in gender studies and activities aimed at consolidating gender studies as a social science field in the region (over three years). (2007)

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)

Regional Public Organization Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning (Moscow, Russia)
$40,000 to support an international meeting of scholars and analysts of interethnic conflict (over one year). (2008)

Research Center "REGION" (Ulianovsk, Russia)
$250,000 in support of research, networking, and policy studies on youth issues in contemporary Russia (over three years). (2007)

Russian Political Science Association (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 to facilitate the development of political science in Russia (over three years). (2008)

St. Petersburg State University Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St Petersburg, Russia)
$450,000 to develop new undergraduate courses in the social sciences and humanities (over three years). (2008)

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Arlington, Virginia)
$1,500,000 to expand the Program on Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia (over three years). (2009)

World Security Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 in support of an internet-based newsletter of daily news, analysis, and opinion about Russia (over two years). (2008)

Human Rights

Number of Grants: 33

All Russian Public Movement for Human Rights (Moscow, Russia)
$250,000 in support of work to promote human rights in Russia (over three years). (2007)

Amnesty International London (London, United Kingdom)
$260,000 to protect and promote human rights in the Russian Federation (over two years). (2008)

Association of Groups for Public Investigations (Kazan, Russia)
$375,000 to promote human rights protection in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2008)

Center for the Promotion of International Defense (Moscow, Russia)
$210,000 in support for a training program for lawyers in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (over three years). (2007)

Center for the Support of Democratic Youth Initiatives (Perm, Russia)
$100,000 to promote the rights of young men of conscript age (over two years). (2008)

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

Committee for Civil Rights (Moscow, Russia)
$300,000 in support of a project to promote accountability of law enforcement agencies in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2008)

Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations (Moscow, Russia)
$250,000 to strengthen the regional human rights ombudsman institution with a special focus on promoting women's rights (over three years). (2008)

Dos'e na Tsenzuru (Moscow, Russia)
$195,000 in support for a human rights journal and a quarterly publication covering human rights violations in the criminal justice and penitentiary systems (over three years). (2007)

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

Human Rights Resource Centre (St Petersburg, Russia)
$200,000 in support of a project to provide legal support to Russian NGOs and promote the professional growth of these organizations (over two years). (2008)

Independent Council of Legal Expertise (Moscow, Russia)
$800,000 to facilitate reform of the courts and law enforcement agencies and improve mechanisms for the protection of human rights in Russia; and to partially fund the purchase of office space (over three years). (2008)

Interregional Foundation "Association of Ombudsmen" (Dmitrov, Russia)
$100,000 to develop and disseminate a database for use by Russia's human rights ombuds institutions (over two years). (2008)

Interregional Human Rights Group (Voronezh, Russia)
$150,000 to support human rights networking activities in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation (over three years). (2008)

Jurix (Moscow, Russia)
$250,000 to promote the institution of human rights ombudsmen in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2007)

Kazan Human Rights Center (Kazan, Russia)
$180,000 in support of a long-term strategy to promote accountability of law enforcement agencies in the Russian Federation. (2007)

London Metropolitan University, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (London, United Kingdom)
$450,000 to promote access to the European Court of Human Rights in the Russian Federation (over three years). (2008)

Moscow Center for Gender Studies (Moscow, Russia)
$225,000 to promote human rights of women in Russia (over three years). (2008)

Moscow Guild of Theater and Screen Actors (Moscow, Russia)
$85,000 in support of the International Stalker Film Festival 2008-2009 in the Russian regions and Moscow (over two years). (2008)

Moscow Guild of Theater and Screen Actors (Moscow, Russia)
$60,000 to support the International Stalker Film Festival 2009 in three Russian Regions. (2008)

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)

Moscow Helsinki Group (Moscow, Russia)
$400,000 in support of a long-term strategy to strengthen the human rights movement in Russia through monitoring human rights and the development of a regional monitoring network (over two years). (2007)

Nizhny Novgorod Regional Non-Governmental Organization "Committee Against Torture" (Novgorod, Russia)
$270,000 in support of a long-term strategy to combat police abuse in Russia (over three years). (2007)

Perm Civic Chamber (Perm, Russia)
$375,000 to promote new approaches to human rights work in Russia (over three years). (2008)

Perm Regional Human Rights Center (Perm, Russia)
$225,000 to promote accountability of law enforcement agencies in the Perm region. (2007)

PRIMA Human Rights News Agency (Moscow, Russia)
$225,000 in support of work to provide a reliable, accurate source of information on human rights in Russia (over three years). (2007)

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)

Southern Regional Resource Center (Krasnodar, Russia)
$200,000 in support of the Legal Assistance to Migrants in Krasnodar Region project (over three years). (2008)

St. Petersburg Center of Humanities and Political Studies Strategy (St. Petersburg, Russia)
$300,000 to support the Development of the Institution of Regional Human Rights Ombudsman in the Russian Federation project (over three years). (2007)

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)
$280,000 to promote reform of the regional police force (over three years). (2007)