THE TRANSCRIBED SPEECH OF ANDREY YUROV AT THE CONFERENCE,

Mr. Andrei Yurov is a well-known international human rights activist, philosopher, co-author of the concept of "humanitarian antifascism / Human Integrity", scientific leader of the International School of Human Rights and Civil Action. He is the Honorary President of the International Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM); an expert of the Council of Europe, a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. Since March 2014, Mr. Yurov has been heading the Crimean field mission on human rights, which conducted a permanent monitoring of the observance of human rights on the territory of the peninsula. Since 2010, Mr. Yurov has been involved in the work of human rights missions in Belarus to monitor massive human rights violations after the presidential elections; in Bishkek and Osh, Kyrgyzstan in connection with interethnic collisions; as well as in Chechnya (periodically from 2009 as part of the Consolidated Mobile Group), and in Georgia (in connection with the Georgian-Russian conflict in 2008). Mr. Yurov is the winner of the first prize of the Moscow Helsinki Group in the field of human rights protection in the nomination "For the development of traditions of human rights protection among young people." In 2015, Mr. Yurov became the winner of the prestigious international award - Helsinki Civil Society Award "for continuous efforts to organize campaigns of solidarity and observation missions in the OSCE region in the face of massive violations of human rights."