27.1.2006 11:33 MSK Russian-Chechen Information Agency receives "Free Press of Russia 2006" Award RUSSIA, Nizhny Novgorod. On January 25th, the Russian-Chechen Information Agency, founded by the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, received the "Free Press of Russia 2006" Award. The award amount is 20 thousand Euros. According to the conditions of the competition, the award must be used for further professional development of the Information Agency.
The competition was run by the "Freedom Word" fund in Oslo, Norway and ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, Germany within the framework of a joint project on strengthening professional journalism in East Europe. The awards ceremony will take place on May 19th, 2006, in the Hamburg Town Hall. Editor-in-Chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky has been invited to participate in the ceremony.
Meanwhile, in Nizhniy Novgorod, Stanislav Dmitriyevsky’s trial continues. He is charged with publishing an open statement from Ahmed Zakaev and Aslan Masxadov. On January 18th, the state prosecutor ... >>full
Monday, February 6, 2006 Chechen NGO Head Convicted The Associated Press
Alexei Rogov / AP
Stanislav Dmitriyevsky sitting in the office of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society in Nizhny Novgorod on June 15.
A Nizhny Novgorod court on Friday found a journalist and activist who has campaigned against rights abuses in Chechnya guilty of inciting ethnic hatred, his colleagues said, a verdict he condemned as part of a state assault on nongovernmental organizations.
Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, the head of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society in Nizhny Novgorod, was handed a two-year suspended sentence. He dismissed his conviction as politically motivated and vowed to appeal it in Russia and the European Court of Human Rights.
"This is part of a major assault on NGOs in Russia," Dmitriyevsky said by telephone after the verdict, branding it "illegal and unfair."
"I consider this case politically directed," Dmitriyevsky said of the charges filed against him in connection with the publication in his group's newspaper ... >>full
30.1.2006 14:32 MSK Democratic Union joins journalists' action to support Stanislav Dmitriyevsky RUSSIA, Moscow. To voice its solidarity with Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, who is being prosecuted, Democratic Union decided to publish on its website the addresses by Akhmed Zakayev and Aslan Maskhadov. It was the publication of these documents in Pravozashchita newspaper that prompted Stanislav Dmitriyevsky's prosecution.
The address by Central Coordination Committee of Democratic Union, signed by Valeria Novodvorskaya, states: "To support the initiative of the Internet sites www.prima-news.ru and www.radikaly.ru and in solidarity with Stanislav Dmitriyevsky we will also publish on Democratic Union's website the 'incriminating' addresses and are hereby informing Prosecutor General that his criminals are breeding like rabbits (by literal exercise of Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the right to seek, receive and spread information and ideas by any means and regardless of state borders). We urge all the independent media to do the same".
31.1.2006 17:15 MSK Internet access only with passport? RUSSIA, Moscow. As of 1 July 2006, people wishing to use the Internet will have to present their passports, while organisations will need proof of registration. The decision on this was passed by the Russian government on 23 January.
The Decision no. 32, approved by the government, concerns «Rights of offering services for the transfer of data». It orders all providers offering access to the Internet to conclude with subscribers a contract including providing identification of the person.
In Internet cafés and other similar places it is unclear how this will regulate the sale of cards offering access to the Internet. However, the general nature of the regulations points to all access to the Internet requiring an agreement, or contract, with the provider.
30.1.2006 14:32 MSK Democratic Union joins journalists' action to support Stanislav Dmitriyevsky RUSSIA, Moscow. To voice its solidarity with Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, who is being prosecuted, Democratic Union decided to publish on its website the addresses by Akhmed Zakayev and Aslan Maskhadov. It was the publication of these documents in Pravozashchita newspaper that prompted Stanislav Dmitriyevsky's prosecution.
The address by Central Coordination Committee of Democratic Union, signed by Valeria Novodvorskaya, states: "To support the initiative of the Internet sites www.prima-news.ru and www.radikaly.ru and in solidarity with Stanislav Dmitriyevsky we will also publish on Democratic Union's website the 'incriminating' addresses and are hereby informing Prosecutor General that his criminals are breeding like rabbits (by literal exercise of Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the right to seek, receive and spread information and ideas by any means and regardless of state borders). We urge all the independent media to do the same".
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