Russian Group Says Killed 25 In Hate Crimes This Year Russia – Ethnic relations / racism / religion – A demonstrator holds a cross at
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posted by zaina19 on May, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/2/2007 2:19 PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Russian Group Says Killed 25 In Hate Crimes This Year
Russia – Ethnic relations / racism / religion – A demonstrator holds a cross at a rally against hate crimes, Kaluzhskaya Square, Moscow, 10Aug2006
A 2006 demonstration in Moscow against hate crimes
(TASS)
May 2, 2007 -- The Moscow-based rights group Sova says 25 people have been killed and 154 injured in racially motivated attacks in Russia so far this year.
The group says this figure is one-third higher than the count in the same period in 2006.
The majority of attacks this year took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod.
Russia has witnessed a surge in hate crimes in recent years.
(Interfax)
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/05/D0D2AB4A-7C62-4B72-A639-9E9AE9258F6C.html
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Journalist disputes revision of election legislation in Constitutional Court
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/2/2007 2:46 PM 3.5.2007 00:21 MSK Journalist disputes revision of election legislation in Constitutional Court Vladimir Kara-Murza Vladimir Kara-Murza RUSSIA, Moscow. On April 27, a complaint was filed with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation against revisions to the federal law "Concerning basic guarantees of election rights and the right to participate in referendums of the citizens of the Russian Federation (RF)” that entered into force in 2006. The discussion deals with the prohibition against citizens of Russia who have dual citizenship or a residence permit in another country from being elected into the State Duma and legislative assemblies of the RF. The revisions were created under federal law F Y28-FZ, signed by the President of the RF, Vladimir Putin, on July 25, 2006. The complainant is RTVI television network journalist and member of the SPS party, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has dual citizenship in Russia and Great Britain. In ... >> full...
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Human Rights Activists Express Mixed Feelings About Yeltsin
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 4:53 PM Chechnya Weekly Volume 8, Issue 17 (April 27, 2007) Human Rights Activists Express Mixed Feelings About Yeltsin Several leading Russian human rights activists were also critical of Boris Yeltsin for his actions vis-à-vis Chechnya but were more positive in their overall assessments of his record. “Yeltsin made many mistakes,” Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva told Interfax on April 23. “One of them, unforgivable from my point of view, was starting the first Chechen war.” At the same time, she said that Yeltsin did much to develop Russian democracy. “I will always have good memories of him. Even though he was by nature imperious, harsh, brought up in the Soviet communist rules of a totalitarian system, Yeltsin inscrutably somehow understood that it was important for Russia to move in the direction of democracy.” For her part, Svetlana Gannushkina, chairwoman of the “Grazhdanskoe sodeistvie” (Civil Assistance) Committee ... >> full...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 4:56 PM Chechnya Weekly Volume 8, Issue 17 (April 27, 2007) Security Operations Conducted in Ingushetia and Dagestan Kavkazky Uzel reported on April 25 that Russian and local security bodies conducted a large-scale “zachistka,” or security sweep, in the settlement of Voznesenovskaya in Ingusehtia’s Malgobeksky district on April 22 and 23. The website quoted Voznesenovskaya residents as saying that all points of entry into and out of the village were blocked by security forces, who deployed armored vehicles and went house-to-house to check the identification papers of residents. According to the Information Center of the Council of Non-Governmental Organizations, a Nazran-based human rights group, security personnel also searched homes. No one was detained in the operation. The security operation was reportedly part of an ongoing search for Uruskhan Zyazikov, the 72-year-old uncle of Ingush President Murat Zyazikov who was kidnapped in March (Chechnya Weekly, March 29). The ... >> full...
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Quarter of lawsuits with Strasbourg Court filed by Russians
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 6:56 PM RIA Novosti Quarter of lawsuits with Strasbourg Court filed by Russians 27/04/2007 18:19 MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Russians are responsible for about a quarter of the lawsuits filed with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, an envoy to the court said. "Twenty-two percent of 90,000 complaints with the European Court came from Russian citizens," Vera Milinchuk, Russia's envoy to the court, told a news conference adding that the court considered only 5% of total petitions. Milinchuk said that between 1999 and 2006, the court heard 207 claims against the Russian government, 310 against Turkey and 206 against Britain. "I would not say that suits from Russian citizens made up a substantial share," she said. The official said 197 of 207 Russian claims had been granted and recognized as human rights violations by the ... >> full...
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