Moscow
The Moscow office of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation For Freedom covers the Foundation’s activities in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. The main topics of the Office activities are open society and culture; rule of law and human rights; market economy and entrepreneurship; European dialogue. The Foundation has partners in many cities and regions across Russia. Together with them, the Foundation carries out various projects and events: book fairs, exhibitions, film screenings, publishing projects, expert discussions and scientific conferences, polls, and podcasts among others.
News
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Presentation of the book «Andrei Sakharov. The Man, Who Wasn’t Scared»
The book Andrei Sakharov. The Man, Who Wasn’t Scared became the final project dedicated to Sakharov supported by the Naumann Foundation during the year of the 100th anniversary of Andrei Dmitrievich. This book, which is bright and full of illustrations, is meant to present Sakharov’s personality and reality, in which he lived, to those readers, who are still school pupils.
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Muses of Montparnasse
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom became a partner of Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in organization and management of the Muses of Montparnasse exhibition dedicated to free women.
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Beethoven Bicycle Promenade
During the Year of Germany, historian and musician Sergey Nikitin-Rimsky, MosCultProg group, and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom prepared a musical and architectural bicycle promenade at small courts of Sokolniki Moscow District.
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Ulrike Moser in Yaroslavl
During the Yaroslavskoe Knizhnoe Obostrenie Book Fair the book «Tuberculosis. The Other Story of German Society» by Ulrike Moser was presented at the fair with the participation of the author herself and translator of the book, Anna Kukes.
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Freedom: culture as a new messenger
The new project explores what cultural entrepreneurship is and where it stands in Russia and in the world.
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Russian Media and the Rule of Silence
Learn how the authorities in Russia are trying to silence independent media. The event was jointly organized by the Kennan Institute and FNF. The panelists are Pavel Chikov – a Russian lawyer, a human rights advocate and head of the Agora group; Ivan Pavlov* – a Team 29 representative; Roman Anin* – investigative journalist, ex-partner of OCCRP and editor-in-chief of Important Stories media*. Moderated by Sergey Parkhomenko.
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Female entrepreneurs
Moscow office of Friedrich Naumann Foundation launched a podcast about women in business and their stories.
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China's influence in Europe
Over the past decade the impact of China's economy has been increasing consequently with far reaching dependencies worldwide. While China has not been using traditional military force to expand its power, we can see clear instances where China uses political and economic coercion to reach its goals. This has led many counties to label China as a “systemic rival”. And that begs the question: What does China’s rise mean for the world?
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Gerhart Baum on the role of XX century for Germany challenges before the German society and the world in the digital age.
Interview with German politician, lawyer, public figure, and thinker.
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What is a foreign agent?
While reading different materials on the website of FNF Russia and Central Asia, you can spot a note that this person or organization is a foreign agent. Here is a short explainer on the issue.
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Страх съедает свободу. Книга Сабины Лойтхойссер-Шнарренбергер
В новой книге Сабина Лойтхойссер-Шнарренбергер лаконично покрывает множество сфер, в которых сегодня происходит наступление на свободу, заодно проговаривая важность основных прав для каждого человека.
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“We want Russia to be a country free from fear, a country of freedom, a country of dignity.”
Vladimir Kara-Murza is one of Russia’s most well-known opposition politicians, a human rights defender and a pro-democracy activist. He has become one of the most vocal critics of Vladimir Putin. He was a long-time colleague of then Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in 2015 and chairs the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom.
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Liberalism in the 21st Century
The book contains transcripts of discussions held a part of the "Liberal answers to challenges of 21st century" project.
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New Business Order: How Startups Change Economy and Society
In their book authors show that the New Business Order changes the approach to values, too: liberal values become more important.
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Yegor Gaidar Award 2019
Professor Karl-Heinz Paque received Yegor Gaidar Award «For outstanding contribution in development of international humanitarian relations with Russia».
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Заявление Правления Фонда Фридриха Науманна за свободу: «Правление Фонда Фридриха Науманна за свободу решительно осуждает вторжение России в Украину. Действия России являются атакой на европейский порядок безопасности. Россия несет ответственность за человеческие страдания. Ответом на российское вторжение в Украину станет наша солидарность с Украиной».
