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• Abduction 21
• Abkhazians 27
• Abuse of psychiatry 9
• Access to procedures 1
• Adoption 12
• Alawi 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 27
• Armed forces / Military 120
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 178
• Armenian 2
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• Asylum-seekers 10
• Avars 4
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• Balkars 6
• Baptist 16
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• Embargo 3
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• Equality before the law 1
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• Expulsion 3
• Extradition 13
• Extrajudicial executions 54
• Falun Gong 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 2
• Forced labour 4
• Foreign occupation 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 48
• Freedom of assembly and association 82
• Freedom of conscience 17
• Freedom of expression 374
• Freedom of information 218
• Freedom of movement 6
• Freedom of religion 278
• Freedom of speech 181
• Gender discrimination 4
• Genocide 2
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• HIV and AIDS 5
• Hare Krishna 8
• Hindu 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 9
• Human rights activists 172
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• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 4
• Immigrants 6
• Immigration control after entry 2
• Impunity 37
• Independence of judiciary 10
• Indigenous persons 4
• Ingush 77
• Integration 5
• Internal armed conflict 106
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 11
• International Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers (ICRMW) 2
• International armed conflict 16
• International courts and tribunals 9
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 1
• Involuntary repatriation 1
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• Karachay 7
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• Komi 4
• Kosovar 1
• Kumyks 2
• Kurd 2
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• Laws relating to religion 14
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 46
• Livelihoods 2
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• Mass exodus 1
• Maternal and child health care 2
• Mental health 1
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• Methodist 4
• Migrant rights 3
• Migrants 41
• Military operations 63
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• Multiple nationality 2
• Muslim 159
• National security / Public order 10
• Naturalization 1
• Nogai 6
• Non-refoulement 3
• Non-self-governing territories 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 2
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• Peacekeeping 12
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• Persecution based on political opinion 9
• Persecution of family members 2
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• Piracy 3
• Police 85
• Political asylum 4
• Political groups 42
• Political parties 76
• Political situation 211
• Pre-trial detention 16
• Prevention of discrimination 1
• Prison or detention conditions 13
• Prosecution vs persecution 12
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 2
• Protestant 28
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 7
• Public health 4
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• Security situation 299
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• Women-at-risk 1

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• European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC)
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• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Russian Federation
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Moscow
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Russian Federation
• Memorial Human Rights Center
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Russian Federation
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• ReliefWeb - Russian Federation (the)
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• UNHCR - Russian Federation
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• United States Department of State - Russia
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