On 14 July, a round table of members of working group ‘Civil Society’ and representatives of Saint-Petersburg NGOs took place within the framework of XV Russian and German Forum ‘Petersburg Dialogue’.

Chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, Commissioner for Human Rights in Saint-Petersburg Alexander Shishlov, Executive Secretary of the Human Rights Council of Saint-Petersburg Natalia Evdokimova, and other representatives of human rights protection society took part in the meeting.

Participants in the round table discussed the examples and the further development of cooperation between Petersburg and German NGOs, the impact of the law ‘on foreign agents’ on the work of human rights protection and socially oriented organisations, and the conditions for development of the civil society.

Adapted from the Press Service of the Commissioner for Human Rights in Saint-Petersburg