MOO 'Pravozaschitnuy centr 'Memorial''

OVD-Info is an independent human rights media project. Our mission is to collect, analyze and spread data on political repression in Russia. We monitor detentions and other cases of political pressure, inform media and human rights organisations, provide legal assistance to activists. An example of our work can be illustrated by the latest mass rallies on 9th of September 2018 Mass rallies were held around 80 cities of Russia. It ended up with over 1195 people being detained. Our hotline had received 818 calls and we were contacted by 184 people in Telegram Messenger. We have provided 70 legal consultations remotely and organized lawyers for some of people. We have also published the list of detained activists, so we provided the informational help: we believe that information protects and when many people are aware of political repressions, the level of it decreases. Thus, there were 550 media references to our news and lists published on 9th of September.
o OVD-Info headcount is >20 people. The team is split into several departments: Monitoring (monitors the political repressions and publishes news about it), Legal (provides legal help to activists and coordinates lawyers), Media (responsible for media strategy preparation and implementation), Data (produce data-sets and data journalism), Strategy (general strategy development), IT team (responsible for IT services development and support), Volunteers coordination (responsible for coordination of our volunteers)
o In order to help more detained activists, OVD-Info cooperates with some other Russian human rights organisations, which have their own net of lawyers in Russia (lack of lawyers in regions is one of the main obstacles for OVD-Info).
o OVD-Info is financed by grants from international funds, such as European Commission, and private donors (crowfunding). Since 2013 HRC “Memorial” is the general partner of OVD-Info and provide us infrastructural support.