Infographic: Disability in Russia by the numbers

This month, Meduza’s Russian-language website is using its MeduzaCare project to shed light on the lives and needs of Russia’s disabled communities. Together with the To Be Exact project, we’ve collected a cluster of statistics on the topic in both Russian and English. To see more infographics and a list of nonprofits working on disability and accessibility issues in Russia, click here and navigate to the “НКО по проблеме” tab.

Sources: The Russian Pension Fund’s Federal Registry of Disabled People, Rosstat, the Health Ministry’s statistics package for the year 2018, the Russian Federation Human Rights Envoy’s annual report for 2018, Labor Ministry reports, and the Levada Center.