List of BEARR Newsletters

BEARR Newsletter No 58


  • Report of 20th Anniversary conference
  • Small Grants Scheme 2012 call for bids
  • Young offenders in Arkhangelsk
  • Child mental patients in Kazakhstan
  • Development of NGOs in Belarus
  • STAND International
  • Country profile: Georgia
  • GB-Russia Society lectures

BEARR Newsletter No 57


  • BEARR's 20th Anniversary
  • Lecture: "Russia and the New World Disorder"
  • Anniversary conference, November 2011: Progress and Prospects in Health, Welfare and the Rol

BEARR Newsletter No 56


- "Young People in Trouble".  Annual Conference report

- Children in the Justice System in Georgia

- The post-communist mortality controversy

- Women in Central Asia

BEARR Newsletter No 55


  • The CIS: Growing Old Rapidly
  • Russia and Islam
  • Focus on the Caucasus
  • NGO Profile: RCWS
  • Small Grants Scheme: project reports
  • Annual Conference 2010: Young People in Trouble

BEARR Newsletter No 54


  • Annual Conference 2009: 20 years on - NGOs and children
  • EveryChild in Russia and the Region
  • BEARR Trust Annual Lecture: Russia and Islam
  • Downside Up in Russia

BEARR Newsletter No 53


  • CEELBAS/BEARR Conference June 2009
  • Website funding information upgrade
  • Small Grants Scheme 2009
  • Institute for Democracy, Moldova
  • Kitezh students
  • Annual Lecture 2009
  • A Russian Fairytale
  • ThePromise:disabled children in Russia
  • African Refugees in Russia
  • New BEARR Trustees
  • Annual Conference 2009

BEARR Newsletter No 52


  • Annual Conference 2008
  • Perspektiva: changing attitudes to disability in Russia
  • Caring for at-risk babies in Tajikistan
  • Disability and higher education in Ukraine
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BEARR Newsletter No 51


  • CEELBAS/BEARR Conference
  • NGO collaboration in Russia
  • Journal of a medical NGO

BEARR Newsletter No 50


  • The BEARR Trust conference
  • Russia's demographic challenge
  • Russian healthcare reform
  • Young children, institutions and family support in Russia
  • Women and chil

BEARR Newsletter 49


  • Street gangs in Kazan: dilemmas of disorder?
  • Conflict resolution in the North Caucasus
  • The BEARR Trus

BEARR Newsletter 48


  • BEARR Trust Annual Conference, 24 November 2006, "Outcast or Integrated? The challenge of homelessness in Russia and Eurasia
  • Unregi

BEARR Newsletter 47


  • The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2006
  • New BEARR website launched
  • Civil Society and NGOs in the Kyrgyz Republic
  • Friends Network in UK supports Belarus's Hospice Moveme

BEARR Newsletter 46


  • 1 The BEARR Trust 2005 Annual Conference
  • 3 Feedback on the conference
  • 4 Russia, Putin and NGOs
  • 5 Children’s hospices in Belarus
  • 6 Meeting disabled children’s needs in Russia

BEARR Newsletter 45


  • 1. Russian volunteers at the crossroads: NGO conference
  • 4. Russian NGOs and the fight against drug abuse and alcoholism
  • 6 Drugs harm reduction project in Sverdlovsk
  • 7 Russia and the West – converging or diverging?: The BEARR Trust Lecture 2005

BEARR Newsletter 44


  • 1 A new BEARR for a new situation
  • 3 Introducing Allavida, BEARR’s new partner
  • 5 Annual conference report
  • 8 GIP: reforming mental health provision in Russia
  • 10 Children and disability in Russia
  • 11 Russian NGOs today
  • 12 Pervouralsk: mental health in the workplace
  • 14 Grasping the nettle of reform in Georgia

plus ...

BEARR Newsletter 43


Focus on children

  • 1 Belarus: developing fostering
  • 3 Editorial: Children's rights in Russia
  • Disabled children ...
    • 4 ... in Russia
    • 5 ... in Georgia
    • 7 ... in St Petersburg
  • 10 'Open Studio': Child mental health care in Tbilisi
  • Street children ...
    • 11 ... in Russia: 'Railway children'
    • 12 ... in Ukraine: the film, Flowers don't grow here:
    • 14 ... and developing family support in Moscow

plus:

BEARR Newsletter 42


  • 1 Amnesty International's Justice for All campaign
  • 2 The FCO-AIUK NGO conference
  • 4 Editorial: From philanthropy to human rights
  • 5 Racism and intolerance on the rise in Russia

BEARR Newsletter 41


  • 1 Conference report
  • 4 Editorial: Pursuing the will for change
  • 4 Editorial: Pursuing the will for change
  • 5 A 'Global Family' for Ekaterinburg's young people
  • 6 Developing community policing amongst ethnic minorities in Russia

BEARR Newsletter 40


  • 2 Introduction to the non-profit sector in Russia
  • 3 ‘School for Tolerance’ in Ekaterinburg
  • 4-5 300th Anniversary of St Petersburg: book launch and photo exhibition

BEARR Newsletter 39


  • 1 St Petersburg Fair
  • 3 A need for recognition: NGO development in Russia
  • 5 Unity of purpose in Georgia
  • 6 30th Anniversary of Aid to Russia and the Republics (ARRC)

BEARR Newsletter 38


  • 1-3 Annual Conference
  • 4 Professor Hosking’s lecture
  • 5 Health and social care in Georgia
  • 7 Work with minorities in the South Caucasus
  • 7 St Petersburg resources

BEARR Newsletter 37


  • 1 Focus in St Petersburg third sector
  • 2 St Petersburg NGO Development Centre
  • 5 Caring for St Petersburg’s disabled children
  • 6 Home Start Russia helping families

BEARR Newsletter 36


  • 1-2 VSO prepares to leave Russia
  • 3 ‘A clear pair of eyes’: VSO video
  • 4 Civic Forum update
  • 5 Women leaders in Siberia
  • 6 Helping women’s groups in Tadjikistan

BEARR Newsletter 35


  • 1-3 BEARR’s Annual Conference
  • 4-6 The Civic Forum and media reaction
  • 7-10 Focus on children: children and poverty; children and conflict; children and drugs
  • 11 Mental health in perspective

BEARR Newsletter 34


  • 1-2 Prison reform
  • 3-4 Young people’s mental health
  • 5-6 FEWER on Chechnya
  • 6 Putin’s plan for the third sector
  • 8-9 Russian volunteering
  • 10-11 Launches: resource pack on child abuse; ‘Russia and the Russians’; web resources
  • 12-13 Training in Uzbekistan

BEARR Newsletter 33


  • 3 Palliative care
  • 4 Guiding: a new force
  • 5-6 Social services
  • 7-8 Micro-credit
  • 9-10 Health and social care
  • 11-12 Reproductive health

BEARR Newsletter 32


  • 4 Architecture in Ekaterinburg
  • 5-7 NGOs: developing the third sector
  • 7 Health and Social Care Partnerships
  • 10-12 Caucasus: monitoring elections; resolving conflicts

BEARR Newsletter 31


  • 2 Lottery awards
  • 5 Support for burns unit in Belarus
  • 7 Health implications of nuclear policy
  • 14 ‘Glossary of Social Care Terms’
  • 15 Training: a decade of cooperation

BEARR Newsletter 30


  • 4 Western models for mental health working in the Caucasus
  • 5 Trade unions playing their part in civil society
  • 7 Is Russia ready for ‘Western’ social work?

BEARR Newsletter 29


  • 1 NGOs: coping with the crisis
  • 4 Educational support for hospice services in Russia
  • 6 Help for miners and their families in Ukraine
  • 8 Voluntary organisations respond to youth issues

BEARR Newsletter 28


  • 1 Public debate urges investment in Russia’s future
  • 3 Recent work in Sverdlovsk
  • 6 Transforming health services
  • 8 Consumers asserting rights in Eastern Europe

BEARR Newsletter 27


  • 1 Lottery cash to help Russia’s elderly
  • 2 Small grants scheme for Tatarstan
  • 6 Befriender volunteers in Ukraine
  • 7 Street children in Russia
  • 8 VSO develops new strategy for Russia

BEARR Newsletter 25


  • 1 Appeal targets winter suffering
  • 2 NGO development in the Urals
  • 3 4 Role-playing in Samara
  • 7 TB incidence rises as deadly strains develop

BEARR Newsletter 24


  • 3 Common ground in the Urals
  • 4 Working with local government
  • 8 Support for Taganka families
  • 9 Disability: children and students

BEARR Newsletter 23


  • 1 HSCP favours interdisciplinary projects
  • 4 Siberia is out in front
  • 5 Growth of Ukraine third sector hampered
  • 6-8 Social welfare: Ukraine, Russia, Tajikistan, Central Asia

BEARR Newsletter 22


  • 1 A welcome strategy for the Know-How Fund
  • 4 Disability centre opens in Perm
  • 5 Centre for orphans in Kitezh
  • 13 Pushkin-Cambridgeshire link

BEARR Newsletter 20


  • 1 Are children the main losers in transition?
  • 4 Facing the challenge of AIDS in the FSU
  • 6 Strengthening NGO support for older people
  • 11 Environment: training offered to Baltic NGOs

BEARR Newsletter 19


  • 1 KHF goes to DFID and JAU becomes EECAD
  • 3 Working in Samara
  • 4 Networking hospices in Russia
  • 6 NGOs are filling a void in Central Asia

BEARR Newsletter 18


  • 1 Winners and losers in the Lottery
  • 2-4 Refugees and migrants in Russia
  • 6-8 Whatever happened to Soviet childhood?
  • 11 Deaf-blind services in Russia

BEARR Newsletter 17


  • 1 Domestic violence: will the new law help?
  • 3 Supporting child psychotherapy in Russia
  • 5 International Alert’s programme in the FSU
  • 7 Charity law in Russia

BEARR Newsletter 16


  • 1-3 BEARR conference looks at new strategies, lobbying and planning
  • 4 Partnership for good government in Russia
  • 5-6 Policy for disabled children
  • 8 Insights into the NGO sector in Belarus

BEARR Newsletter 15


  • 1 BEARR works with Samara NGOs
  • 2 Developing suicide prevention in Russia
  • 6 BEARR seminar: child protection in Russia
  • 9 Promoting democracy in the FSU

BEARR Newsletter 14


  • 1 National Lottery Goes International
  • 2-5 Social Welfare: Big Issue; St Andrew’s Aid Relief; Oxfam in the Caucasus
  • 5 Aid for Romanian (and other) Christians
  • 7 Youth policies for new young Russians

BEARR Newsletter 13


  • 2 Initiatives for democracy funded by TACIS
  • 5 Remand prisons are a real problem
  • 6 Mental health problems in Estonia and Russia
  • 7 Sexual health training in Russia and Kazakhstan

BEARR Newsletter 12


  • 2 Programme for economies in transmission
  • 6 Pollution and health in Russia
  • 7 Protecting babies by promoting breastfeeding
  • 7 Care of Ukrainian children

BEARR Newsletter 11


  • 6 TACIS partnership programme
  • 6 Commission launches city twinning programme with Russia
  • 8 Civil society – East and West
  • 10 Nursing links with St Petersburg

BEARR Newsletter 10


  • 1-3 New Russian law on associations
  • 3 The philanthropy of Russian banks
  • 6 Rule of law projects in Russia and Ukraine
  • 9-11 Evolving good practice
  • 12 TB in Tomsk

BEARR Newsletter 09


  • 2-3 Management training in Samara
  • 5 The bank that likes to say ‘yes’
  • 6 Russia – the environmental disaster
  • 8-9 Promoting East-West collaboration at local government level

BEARR Newsletter 08


  • 1 TACIS
  • 3 Young people in Russia
  • 7 Suicide prevention in Estonia
  • 9 Russian health and social work
  • 11 Hospices

BEARR Newsletter 07


  • 1 What does partnership mean?
  • 2-4 Aid or Development?
  • 4 What role for the voluntary sector?
  • 8-9 How to donate goods to the FSU