Russian Motorists Celebrate a Bitter Victory
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posted by zaina19 on March, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/30/2006 1:33 AM Oleg Shcherbinsky with his daughter / Photo: AP Oleg Shcherbinsky with his daughter / Photo: AP Russian Motorists Celebrate a Bitter Victory 27.03.2006 MosNews A Russian driver sentenced earlier to four years in a labor colony after he had failed to give way to a speeding chauffeur carrying a local governor to a birthday party was acquitted of all charges this month. Supporters of Oleg Shcherbinsky said that was a bitter victory, and showed that Russia still had a long way to go before it became a true rule-of-law state. Oleg Shcherbinsky walked free out of a courtroom in Barnaul, in Russia’s Siberian Altai Region, after his conviction in the accident that killed Altai Governor Mikhail Yevdokimov was overturned and all charges against him dropped. The case of a Siberian railway worker initially sentenced to 4 years in a labor colony, after he had failed to give way to ... >> full...
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Ingush Refugees Protest Resettlement
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/30/2006 10:16 AM 30-Mar-06 Ingush Refugees Protest Resettlement A Russian plan to create a new settlement for Ingush displaced in a conflict with North Ossetia is dismissed as a broken promise. By Asya Bekova in Nazran and Maysky (CRS No. 333, 30-Mar-06) Ethnic Ingush people forced to flee their homes in North Ossetia more than a decade ago are protesting against plans by the Russian government to resettle them in what they call a “reservation”, saying it has reneged on a commitment to let them go home. The refugees, or more accurately IDPs (internally displaced persons), are backed by the authorities in Ingushetia, North Ossetia’s neighbour. Some have lived in Ingushetia since they were displaced by the short but bloody conflict in 1992, but the group that will be most immediately affected is the community living in a makeshift shantytown near the village of Maysky, just inside North Ossetia. Last week, ... >> full...
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The prestigious human rights institute RAFTO Foundation in Bergen, Norway, has initiated an appeal for peace in Chechnya.
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/8/2006 7:54 PM March, 8, 2006 Press release CHECHENPRESS The prestigious human rights institute RAFTO Foundation in Bergen, Norway, has initiated an appeal for peace in Chechnya. The appeal is adressed to the United Nations and has been signed by thirteen RAFTO human rights laureates, two of whom are also laureates of the Nobel Peace Price. The RAFTO Peace appeal was published at an event in Oslo on 23rd February 2006 to commemorate the Russian 1944 deportation of the chechen and other caucasian peoples from their home lands to Siberia and Kazakhstan. Guest speaker at this event was Ms. Lidya Yusupova, previous director of the Russian human rights organization MEMORIAL's office in Grozny, Chechnya. She was also the laureate of the RAFTO human rights prize last year. Enclosed please find the peace appeal in Russian and English versions and below is a link to the RAFTO web-site. http://www.rafto.no/ Ivar Amundsen FRED FOR TSJETSJENIA PEACE ... >> full...
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Danish Aid Group Resumes Work In Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/7/2006 3:27 AM Tuesday, 07 March 2006 Danish Aid Group Resumes Work In Chechnya Russia -- Chechen Refugee in Ingush camp A Chechen refugee in a camp in Ingushetia (file photo) AFP March 7, 2006 -- A Danish aid group that provides food to tens of thousands of people in Chechnya has resumed operations after a nearly month-long suspension in its activities. The Danish Refugee Council's director for Russia, Per Ilsaas, said the group was restarting operations as of today. The Danish Refugee Council suspended operations in early February after Ramzan Kadyrov, then the acting prime minister of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government, said Danish aid groups would no longer be allowed to operate in Chechnya because of a controversial set of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad printed in a Danish newspaper. Federal and other Chechen officials, however, expressed doubts whether the ban was legal and Kadyrov later retracted his decision. The Danish Refugee Council is ... >> full...
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Danish Aid Group Resumes Work In Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/7/2006 3:27 AM Tuesday, 07 March 2006 Danish Aid Group Resumes Work In Chechnya Russia -- Chechen Refugee in Ingush camp A Chechen refugee in a camp in Ingushetia (file photo) AFP March 7, 2006 -- A Danish aid group that provides food to tens of thousands of people in Chechnya has resumed operations after a nearly month-long suspension in its activities. The Danish Refugee Council's director for Russia, Per Ilsaas, said the group was restarting operations as of today. The Danish Refugee Council suspended operations in early February after Ramzan Kadyrov, then the acting prime minister of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government, said Danish aid groups would no longer be allowed to operate in Chechnya because of a controversial set of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad printed in a Danish newspaper. Federal and other Chechen officials, however, expressed doubts whether the ban was legal and Kadyrov later retracted his decision. The Danish Refugee Council is ... >> full...
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