Legal Information Centre for Human Rights is a non-governmental organisation based in Estonia, according to Hanne-Margret Birckenbach, is "particularly involved in promoting the concerns of Russian-speaking inhabitants and with outstanding contacts to West European research institutes", which "is considered as one of the few attempts in Estonia to develop competence in the understanding of human rights issues, whereas Estonian judges or the legal education system, for instance, have remained uninterested".
[7] In 2009, the Estonian Internal Security Service has published statements on the centre's director Semjonov, claiming that: According to the latest information Russia has decided to stake at the 2009 election of the European Parliament an unexpected candidate Alexei Semyonov.
The report stated that Alexei Semjonov, the LICHR director, would be a pro-Russia candidate at the 2009 European Parliamentary elections, that he was a member of a pro-minority Constitutional party, and that he carried out activities financed and directed by the Russian authorities.
[9]In a project financially backed by the Russkiy Mir Foundation, the centre has published the book "Russian Schools of Estonia.
Compendium of Materials" with the aim of creating conditions for the preservation of the existing public system[10] of separate Russian language schools within Estonia.