East and Southeast Europe
The Regional Office FNF ESEE covers 23 countries in East and Southeast Europe. The Regional Office in Sofia coordinates the following Project Offices in the region: Bulgaria and North Macedonia, Greece, Romania and Moldova, Western Balkans, Russia and Central Asia, Ukraine and Belarus, South Caucasus and Turkey.
News
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Prisoner of Conscience: Yury Dmitriev, Russia
In 1997 historian and researcher Yury Dmitriev made a gruesome discovery in the Sandarmokh forest of Karelia, a Russian region close to the border with Finland. He found the burial grounds of thousands of political prisoners massacred there under Stalin’s regime. Find out the story of the prisoner of conscience, Yury Dmitriev from Russia.
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Defending what is right
Georgian politician and civic mover and shaker Tinatin Khidasheli has been immersed in the fight for justice for 30 years – and is ready for the next 30 to come. Tinatin is the type of person for whom the use of “fighter” in the expression “freedom fighter” is well deserved. In her three decades of civic activism, she has gone from clashing with the Soviet-era militsiya (police) in the final year before the fall of the USSR to defending in court the basic rights of those ostracised by the new Georgian state, from advocating the need for EU integration of her country in Parliament, to reforming its military.
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Prisoners of Conscience: Polad Aslanov, Azerbaijan
Find out the story of a political prisoner and journalist from Azerbaijan, Polad Aslanov.
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Prisoner of Conscience: Emir-Hussein Kuku, Ukraine
Find out the story of Emir- Hussein Kuku, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist, charged with being a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir party that is banned as a terrorist organization in Russia, but legal in Ukraine. Kuku denied any involvement with the movement.
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From public policy to politics in Croatia: an impossible mission?
Diana Topcic-Rosenberg tells her story of adapting to the political and social realities of her home country after a 20-year career abroad
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We are the Power Here
In the documentary film “Women leading protests”, activist and music artist Maryna Rusia Shukiurava tells the inspiring story of how women realized and claimed their power in Belarusian society. She has been part of the opposition movement in Belarus since she was 18 years old. She has often expressed her political opinion through her work as a musician and as an NGO activist.
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Liberal Communicators Network (LCN): Non-Profit Edition
If you are passionate about non-profit communications, you are cordially invited to apply for the ‘Liberal Communicators Network (LCN): Non-Profit Edition’ of the European Liberal Forum (ELF). The Academy ‘Make a Good Message Better’ offers online a series of big-picture inputs by high-level speakers in the summer (7 sessions over 2 weeks: 24 June- 11 July) and 2 specialized workshops and 2 sessions in the autumn on SEO and Social Media in September and October.
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🌍 'In more than 60 countries, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom promotes the work of human rights defenders, journalists and representatives of civil society. With their courageous actions, they repeatedly create new spaces to control governments and those in power. It takes people who fight for freedom under adverse circumstances and stand up for human rights and threatened fellow human beings, and these people need support.' shares Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Deputy Chair of the Management Board of the FNF and former German Minister of Justice. 🌍 Discover our liberal human rights work in the Global Report 👉 https://humanrights.freiheit.digital/cover/
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🇹🇷 The Impact of Human Rights Education in Turkey 🛑 Turkey has been associated with human rights violations over the past years, and it is rated as “not free” in Freedom House's latest report in 2021. The country’s experience with a deepening human rights crisis led society to normalize unfair indictments against journalists, lawyers and human rights activists. The project of Friedrich Naumann Foundation - Turkey is featured in our Global Human Rights Report👉 https://humanrights-2021.freiheit.digital/turkey/
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🇧🇬 The Chronicles of Infodemia from Bulgaria 🛑 The coronavirus pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide has evidenced that false information and rumours are life-threatening to human health. In partnership with FNF, the Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria Асоциация на европейските журналисти - България started the Chronicles of Infodemia campaign, exposing misinformation relating to COVID-19. The project of Friedrich Naumann Foundation Southeast Europe is featured in our Global Human Rights Report 👉 https://humanrights-2021.freiheit.digital/bulgaria/
