Centre for assistance to Torture Victims
Project duration: 2003-2005
Implementing partner: Committee against torture.

Alternative Civilian Service
Project duration: 2003-2005
Implementing partner: Centre for the Development of Democracy and HR.

Improving Conditions in Pre-trial prisons and colonies
Project duration: September 2003– March 2005
Implementing partner: ICPS.

Humanising the Russian Penal System
Project duration: September 2003– March 2006
Implementing partner: PRI.

Ethnic Minorities and Access to Justice
Project duration: September 2003– December 2005
Implementing partner: European Dialogue.

Researching and defending Roma Rights
Project duration: September 2003– March 2005
Implementing partner: European Roma Rights Centre.

The special training for officials of law enforcement and court bodies
Project duration: September 2003– August 2004
Implementing partner: Russian agency for patents and trademarks + UNDP.

Development of Russian Technology Business from Academic and Public Research
Implementing partner: Oxford Innovation.

Promoting Standards in Public Life in the Russia Regions
Project duration: September 2003– March 2005
Implementing partner: Institute of Law and Public Police.

Media and Economic Development: Reporting on Corruption, Business and the Judiciary
Project duration: May 2005– April 2006
Implementing partner: IREX.

Small Market Independent Newspaper Project
Project duration: April 2004 – March 2006
The project aim is to assist thirteen small market newspapers, seven papers selected each year, to better serve their communities by teaching their respective staff the knowledge required to improve journalism skills, general management, advertising, marketing and distribution, as a means to gain financial and therefore editorial independence.
Implementing partner: Eurasia Foundation.

Journalists Unions in the Defence of Professional and Social Rights
Project duration: November 05-June 2006
This project was designed to increase the independence of the media through the strengthening of journalists’ unions and to improve their capacity to defend journalists’ rights.
Implementing partner: International Federation of Journalists.

Human Rights Advisers in Prisons
Project duration: November 2005 – December 2007
This project supported the introduction of human rights advisers in the Russian prison system. The implementing partner has been working with the Russian Federal Prison Service (formerly GUIN) for several years.
Implementing partner: International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College London

School for Public Inspectors of Prisons
Project duration: July 2005 – March 2008
This project extended a system of public prison inspectors (drawing on the model of the UK Independent Monitoring Boards under the Home Office) to areas of Siberia, Northern and Far Eastern Russia, culminating in a bill passed by the State Duma in April 2008.
Implementing partner: Social Partnership Foundation.

Roma Rights Challenges to Hate Speech
Project duration: July 2005 – July 2006
This project extended a system of public prison inspectors (drawing on the model of the UK Independent Monitoring Boards under the Home Office) to areas of Siberia, Northern and Far Eastern Russia, culminating in a bill passed by the State Duma in April 2008.
Implementing partner: Social Partnership Foundation.

Strengthening Human Rights Capacity in the Russian Federation
Project duration: July 2005 – March 2008.
The project developed the capacity of NGOs and lawyers within the Russian Federation to apply to the European Court of Human Rights thereby enabling victims of human rights abuses to obtain redress.
Implementing partner: European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC).

Community Policing in Russia: Development of NGO – Police Partnership
Project duration: April 2006- March 2009.
The project goal is to establish a system of training for police officers on the issues of prevention of community and domestic violence and collaboration on this issue with relevant municipal institutions and NGOs; and also to introduce the mechanism of referral of victims of community and domestic violence.
Implementing partner NGO "Centre for assistance to victims of violence and human trafficking"

Monitoring and Education as a tool of torture prevention in Nizhny Novgorod
Project duration: July 2007 - December 2008
The project seeks to develop the torture prevention capacity of the legal and judicial community, involving prosecutors, judges, lawyers, police officers and students. The main aim of the project is to encourage future state agents and attorneys to respect individual rights, including the right to freedom from torture, right to life and right to effective remedy.
Implementing partner: Nizhny Novgorod Committee against Torture.

Strengthening Human Rights Capacity in the Russian Federation
Project duration: November 2007 – June 2009
The project’s aim is to develop the capacity of NGOs and lawyers within the Russian Federation to apply to the European Court of Human Rights, thereby enabling victims of human rights abuses to obtain redress.
Implementing partner: The European Human Rights Advocacy Centre.

Raising Awareness of Media Law Issues among Local Radio Stations, Radio Journalists, and Online ‘Citizen Journalists’ in Russia’s Regions
To promote respect for good governance and human rights by promoting international values: supporting the rule of law, pursuing dialogue on human rights issues, engaging with civil society, and encouraging democratic reforms and sustainable socio-economic policies.
Implementing partner: Foundation for Independent Radio Broadcasting (FNR)
Project duration: November 08 - August 09