Civic Assistance Committee is a non-governmental organisation that helps refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in Moscow. We provide free legal advice, humanitarian aid, medical and psychological assistance. Our experts in Russian as a foreign language conduct classes for adults and children. The story of the Civic Assistance Committee began in 1990, when a group of Muscovites decided to create a non-governmental organization to help the first refugees of the “perestroika” era and the collapse of the USSR — victims of Armenian pogroms in Azerbaijan. Many of our employees are migrants. Some of them initially turned to Civic Assistance for help, then became volunteers of the organisation. On April 20, 2015, the Ministry of Justice entered the Civic Assistance Committee in the register of “organisations acting as foreign agents”