Children rights

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Russia offers fast-track citizenship to orphans from LPR, DPR, Ukraine

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the process for children from orphanages in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and Ukraine to acquire Russian citizenship.

10:53 03.06.2022

Russian government backs bill enabling life sentences for paedophiles

Russia's government has backed a bill proposed by the United Russia party to introduce life sentences for pedophiles, according to Chair of the State Duma Information Policy Committee Alexander Khinshtein.

17:01 20.10.2021

Lack of awareness on part of minors of moral harm caused to them still remains harm suffered

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction has agreed that the compensation of nonpecuniary harm caused to the children, who lost their father in a plane crash, needs to be increased. The lack of awareness of the moral harm caused to them does not mean that there was no such harm of it was insignificant.

15:56 08.10.2021

Kuznetsova relieved of post of Russia's Child Rights Commissioner

President Vladimir Putin relieved Anna Kuznetsova of the post of Russia's Child Rights Commissioner as she had been elected as a State Duma lawmaker.

15:18 01.10.2021

Trial of of ex-schema monk Sergius to continue in September

The Izmaylovsky District Court of Moscow on Wednesday postponed the hearing of a case against excommunicated ex-schema monk Sergius (Nikolay Romanov) over inducement to suicide and usurpation of power until September 2.

18:40 25.08.2021

Four defendants in surrogacy kids trade case returned to detention

The First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction overturned house arrest imposed on CEO of the European Surrogacy Center Vladislav Melnikov and three other defendants in a case over trafficking of surrogate mothers’ children and detained them.

10:43 06.08.2021

Disabled children to be seen out of turn – presidential order

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree ordering shops, social and other institutions to see out handicapped children out of turn.

10:44 27.07.2021

Russian minors’ ombudsman pushes for support for all categories of families with children

Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova stresses that complex support measures must be applied to all categories of families with children.

12:58 26.07.2021

Kuznetsova proposes to encourage child safety information distribution on social networks

Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova proposed to encourage social media users in distributing information on the rules of children’s safety during the online meeting with regional ombudsmen and members of the Infant Community Councils on Friday.

17:14 09.07.2021

Putin orders Cabinet to realize child benefit measures until August

President of Russia Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to pursue measures for monthly child benefits for minors aged from 3 to 7 years until August 1.

15:50 07.07.2021

Children Ombudsman urges closer cooperation of volunteers and authorities in search for missing minors

The mechanisms of interaction between the authorities and volunteer search teams need to be made even more effective, the Russian Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova believes.

10:47 07.07.2021

Russia's Children Ombudsman helps 23 more minors to return from Syria

The fourteenth special flight with Russian children from Syria has landed at the Chkalovsky airport near Moscow, the press service of the Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova informs. Another 23 children were returned to their homeland.

10:57 05.07.2021

Number of international adoption cases decreases amid pandemic - Russian Supreme Court

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the judicial practice in cases of international adoption: the number of such cases has significantly decreased, and already scheduled hearings were either suspended or terminated due to the impossibility of the adoptive parents to come to Russia.

15:51 04.06.2021

Russian Civic Chamber urges citizens to back memorandum on protection of minors on Internet

Members of the Russian Civic Chamber invite all concerned citizens to join the parent community's memorandum on the protection of children on the Internet and social networks.

15:43 01.06.2021

Number of appeals to Russian Children's Ombudsman increased by 7.3% in 2020

The number of appeals received by the office of Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova increased by more than 7% in 2020, according to the annual report on the activities of this human rights institution.

17:28 31.05.2021

Russian authorities to complicate rules for children traveling abroad with foreign parents

The Government Law-Making Commission has approved an initiative prohibiting a foreign parent from traveling abroad with children being Russian citizens in the absence of the consent of the other parent.

11:17 28.05.2021

Russian Children Ombudsman appreciates creation of register of nonpayers of alimony

The creation of a register of malicious defaulters of alimony can be an important step towards protecting the children's right to receive all due payments; however, the move needs to be an element of a whole package of measures, Children Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova has said.

12:25 20.05.2021

Russian government approves anti-terrorism requirements for children's camps

All Russian children's camps will have system for transmitting alarm messages to emergency services; buildings and territories will be inspected at least four times a day, according to new anti-terrorist requirements for places for organizing recreation and recuperation of children.

20:21 17.05.2021

Health condition of minors injured during Kazan school shooting is steady - ombudsman

Health condition of children admitted to Moscow and Kazan hospitals after school shooting in Tatarstan is stable, according to Russia’s Child Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova.

16:11 13.05.2021

Alleged Kazan school shooter to undergo mental examination

Ilnaz Galyaviyev, who is suspected of fatal shooting in a Kazan school building and mass murder, will undergo mental examination.

16:06 12.05.2021