In 1998, ANNA established the National Center for the Prevention of Violence. The programs of the Center are implemented within the Russian Federation. ANNA has an administrative office and a separate space for the hotline.

Over 150 regional non-governmental and governmental agencies focused on the issues of violence against women are active members of the ANNA National Network Against Violence.  Centres from other countries also collaborate with our network.

Since 2000, ANNA has been a Russia focal point for the European Network -- WAVE (Women Against Violence Europe)

ANNA has been the main applicant in four international two-year projects (250 000 Euro each) which received support in 1998 – 2005 from European Commission under the programs of TACIS Lien, TACIS, and IBPP. All programs have been successfully realized.

Since 1993, ANNA has produced and distributed over two millions public awareness materials, such as posters, brochures, stickers, safety cards for women, etc. 

ANNA has conducted around 150 seminars and training sessions for different organisations and target groups, such as representatives of governmental and non-governmental agencies and four international conferences on trafficking in women and children, sexual and domestic violence against women.

The main objectives of our organization are:

• To develop awareness of the issues of violence against women in Russia as human rights violation;
• To develop the national model of support system for women suffering from different forms of violence; 
• To cooperate with the governmental agencies on the federal level and on local levels in order to improve the system of state response to the issues of violence against women through legislative and structural changes;
• To create the environment of zero tolerance to violence against women in the society
• To address violence against women as human rights violation.

ANNA's main activities include the following components:

• through the Crisis Centre programme, to provide psychological, emotional, legal, informational assistance to women and children in domestic violence situations and to survivors of trafficking through hotline counselling and support groups;
• to provide education to lawmakers, government officials, police officers, lawyers, health care providers, media representatives, and to the general public in order to change societal attitudes on violence against women;
• to conduct research and advocacy programs related to violence against women;
• to disseminate our experience by providing training and information support to the organizations which have started programmes for female survivors of violence;
• to develop, publish and disseminate culturally appropriate public education materials, such as posters, brochures, safety cards, etc., on violence against women in order to raise awareness of violence against women as of a human rights violation.

Larisa V. Ponarina, the Deputy Director of the National Center for the Prevention of Violence (ANNA) will take the leading role managing the STOPVAW country page for the Russian Federation. Larisa began her work as a hotline counselor at the Moscow Sexual Assault Recovery Center and a year later became the center’s Deputy Director. She then served as the Deputy Director of the Russian Lawyers Advocacy Project at the Women, Law and Development International Institute. She has also been a hotline coordinator and trainer for a number of years. Larisa has published articles including Sexual Harrassment in Russia in Violence and Social Changes Journal as well as Combating and Preventing Domestic Violence in Breaking Cycle of Silence.