boes.org
-Fighting the destiny

Hockey on Prostheses
 
Tough Rehabilitation

-Fighting the destiny

-Valuable Members

-Vertical Amputee Hockey

-Our history in pictures

Next Generation
 
-My leg was twisted and very dirty

RIGHTS

 
Human Rights / Children's Rights Across the World
 
 

April 2000

-We had times when disabled WW2 veterans were sent away from the public eye

Fighting the destiny. It may sound too pathetic but how else we could name a story about disabled athletes?

Nikolay Knyazev, St. Petersburg Elks St. Petersburg Elks talk about themselves with quite a bit of irony, which became currently their favorite remedy helping them to stay cool and cheerful while fighting the indifference of the society they live in. Russia today is a country where the amount of victims of ecological and technological disasters constantly rises.

We had times when disabled WW2 veterans were sent away from the public eye. One of the most famous centers for the disabled was located on the island of Valaam , on Lake Ladoga, not far from St.Petersburg, in a former Orthodox monastery. Out of sight - out of mind.

Last 20 years were filled with wars, or how they are called now - "local conflicts", and a new generation of disabled veterans was left without support.


BOES.ORG Main INDEX     LandMine Index     LandMine FrameSet
Tun Channareth     Rae McGrath     Francis Sejersted     Jody Williams
 
Multilingual Human Rights / Children's Rights Across the World
Deutsch     Español     Français     Italiano     Other Languages
Arabic  Chinese  Danish  Dutch  English  Finnish  French  German  Italian  Japanese 
Norwegian  Portuguese  Braz-Port  Russian  Spanish  Swedish  Turkish