Sutyajniks Learn

In addition to planning and conducting their own activities, Sutyajnik attorneys raised their qualifications in educational and practical areas by participating in seminars and workshops run by partner organizations in the non-commercial sector. Such activities included the training session “International Labor Organization: Labor Rights Standards and the Mechanisms of Labor Rights Protection,” organized by the Centre of Trade-Union Training; summer schools on human rights in Tver and St. Petersburg; XXVI International Human Rights Training Program (Montreal, Canada); and regional courses on human rights in Sweden and Serbia.

Sutyajniks continue their research, successfully combining it with practical work. Anna Demeneva is working on her candidate dissertation on the legal consequences of decisions rendered by the European Court of Human Rights regarding the Russian Federation. Lyudmila Churkina is completing preparations for her candidate dissertation at the Ural State Academy of Law and is representing the case of Sutyajnik v. Russia, and other cases. Anton Burkov received a master’s degree in international human rights law from Essex University in Great Britain, earning distinction in defending his dissertation on the influence of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on Russian law; the dissertation materials now serve as an online training resource entitled “Studying the European Convention” (www.sutyajnik.ru/rus/echr/school). In the meantime he is working on his doctoral dissertation in the law faculty at Cambridge University (Great Britain) on the application of European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Russian courts, and is simultaneously working on the cases Mikhailova v. Russia and Russian Labor Party v. Russia.

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Non-governmental organization Sutyajnik: We Are Sutyajnik. 2005 ANNUAL REPORT. Yekaterinburg, Ural University Press, 2006.