On Father’s Day, MenCare partners across Eastern and Central Europe celebrated the holiday with many different events and activities. In Slovakia, fathers organized a variety of celebrations. In Bratislava, dads attended a football match and a picnic, while Ružinov town and Breza village held municipal festivities to commemorate the holiday. Although Father’s Day is not …
Centre Dardedze has successfully completed Latvia’s first fathers’ program. Meetings focused on the importance of being an active father, a father’s role during pregnancy, caring for yourself and your partner, understanding the world through the eyes of a child and how to use positive discipline. …
The launch of a new Russian language website delivers updated MenCare resources and social media platforms for Eastern Europe. …
Moscow and St. Petersburg celebrated International Women’s Day with an engaging exhibition of graphic art, called ‘Feminist Pencil,’ that featured comics, posters, and street art created by women with a social message. Many members of Feminist Pencil used graphic art to share their personal experiences with gender-based violence, and the exhibition featured work that called …
The report, “Impact of Gender-Sensitive Social Services on the Transformation of Parental Values and Practices in Today’s Russia,” based on research conducted by Alexander Malyshev in 2014, is now available for English readers. The study, conducted among fathers’ group attendees in St. Petersburg, is one of only a few in Russia that analyze men’s roles …
Father’s Day in Russia is celebrated unofficially, with different cities promoting activities on different days between November and March. But starting in 2014, the country could have its first all-Russia Father’s Day on June 15th. The idea was proposed by Alexander Sidyakin, deputy of the ruling party, in a speech to the Parliament. Sidyakin justified …
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