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The Other Russia: The Landmark Murder Of Maksharip Aushev

posted by eagle on October, 2009 as Human Rights

The Landmark Murder of Maksharip Aushev

October 30th, 2009

Writing for Yezhednevny Zhurnal, journalist Latynina chronicles the events leading up to Sunday’s murder of Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev. Aushev was on his way to visit family when assailants sprayed his vehicle with machine gun fire.

The Ingush President has pledged full support for the investigation, but his ability to control the violence in Ingushetia is in doubt.

The Russian republic of Ingushetia borders Chechnya in the North Caucasus. Ingush security forces in charge of controlling spillover insurgent violence are blamed for hundreds of kidnappings and extrajudicial murders, but are rarely investigated.

“They killed this man two hours ago, but he walks among us here on film.”
Yulia Latynina
October 26, 2009
Yezhednevny Zhurnal

On Sunday, October 25, 2009, in the North Caucasian city of Nalchik, one of the most influential people in the Republic of Ingushetia was killed – Maksharip Aushev; the killers peppered his car with machine guns. It ...

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Al Jazeera: UN Body Criticises Russia Abuses

posted by eagle on as Human Rights

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2009
19:00 MECCA TIME, 16:00 GMT

UN body criticises Russia abuses

There have been large protests over the murders

of Russian journalists [GALLO/GETTY]

Russia has failed to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide range of abuses, including torture and murder, a new report by the UN Human Rights Committee says.

The findings came from an 18-member panel of independent experts who urged the Kremlin to implement a number of legal reforms which it said would improve conditions in Russia.

The proposed measures include narrowing the broad definitions of terrorism and extremism under Russian law, decriminalising defamation cases against journalists and granting appeal rights to people forced into psychiatric hospitals by the courts.

Friday's report also said Russia was responsible for reported attacks on civilians by armed groups in South Ossetia in the aftermath of the August 2008 war with Georgia, and called on Moscow to investigate those abuses.

Hate crimes

The panel said that ...

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Prague Watchdog: The Art Of Mimicry

posted by eagle on as Human Rights

October 28th 2009 · Prague Watchdog / Usam Baysayev

The art of mimicry

By Usam Baysayev, special to Prague Watchdog

Oslo, Norway

It is often interesting to compare the instincts and habits of animals with the behaviour of human beings. Mimicry, for example – the ability to adapt to one’s environment. Were it not for the chameleon’s ability to change colour according to where it happens to be at any particular moment – on a branch, on the ground or wherever, we would probably know it only in fossilized form.

Though the step from chameleon to man is a long one, man has achieved some success in mimicry. Take politicians, for example. They always say what ordinary people expect them to say. But they usually act on the basis of personal preference, and often of personal advantage. In Chechnya, too, there are now many skilled practitioners in the art of deception.

A few years ago the republic ...

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Billings Gazette: Reports: Case Opened Against Russian Activist

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Reports: Case opened against Russian activist

By JIM HEINTZ | Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:05 pm

A lawyer for Chechnya's strongman president said Tuesday that a criminal libel case carrying possible prison time has been opened against one of Russia's most prominent human rights activists, news agencies reported.

The report of the case against Oleg Orlov, chairman of the Memorial group, comes less than a week after the European Union awarded its top human-rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, to Orlov and two other activists.

The case stems from Orlov's statement in July that Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov bore responsibility for the July abduction and killing of Natalya Estemirova, the head of Memorial's Chechnya operation who drew Kadyrov's ire by reporting on human rights violations there.

Orlov did not say that Kadyrov was directly involved in the killing, but said the former separatist rebel and boxer had created a climate of intimidation and impunity that ...

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Moscow Times: Riot Police Raid Dam Disaster Site

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Riot Police Raid Dam Disaster Site

28 October 2009

By Maria Antonova

The Investigative Committee and OMON riot police swooped into the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant in a raid Tuesday, seizing documents and isolating employees at their workstations in a probe into an August accident that killed 75 people.

RusHydro, the state-controlled owner of the plant, said the surprise raid halted all activities there, snarling repair work and efforts to prepare the plant for the winter.

“Two administrative buildings have been blocked. Employees are sitting at their workplaces and are not permitted to move around,” plant spokesman Alexei Dubovets said in a telephone interview.

He could not say whether employees were being questioned. “I’m in my office as well and don’t know what is happening,” he said.

At 5 p.m. local time, officials with the Investigative Committee were putting together a list of employees who are pregnant or have disabilities, RusHydro’s press service said. More than 1,500 people ...

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