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Moscow Times: Hundreds Beat Drums, Whistle For Kashin

posted by eagle on November, 2010 as Human Rights

Hundreds Beat Drums, Whistle for Kashin

15 November 2010

By Alexandra Taranova

Igor Tabakov / MT

A little girl reading a copy of the mock newspaper Kashin at a rally in support of Kashin and Fetisov on Sunday.

Hundreds of people beat drums, blew whistles and sounded other instruments Sunday at a central Moscow rally to protest the brutal beatings of Kommersant journalist Oleg Kashin and Khimki forest defenderKonstantin Fetisov this month.

More than 500 people "armed" with drums, whistles, horns and pipes attended the rally near the Chistiye Prudy metro station, which was authorized by City Hall and ended peacefully, said Yevgenia Chirikova, a rally co-organizer and a leading defender of the Khimki forest.

"The rally was extremely noisy, dynamic, but civilized," she said by telephone.

Kashin, who was beaten by two unidentified assailants on Nov. 6, remained in serious condition in an intensive care ward through the weekend, and his colleagues from the Kommersant daily distributed a mock newspaper called КашинЪ ...

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Telegraph: Sunbeds To Be Installed At Russian Prison

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Sunbeds to be installed at Russian prison

One of Russia's most notorious prisons will soon install sunbeds to improve the health of its inmates.

Russia's crowded, poorly managed prison system came under increased scrutiny after the November 2009 death of jailed lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who spent much of the last months of his life in Butyrka, pictured Photo: ALAMY

7:43PM GMT 09 Nov 2010

Styled as a brick fortress, the 19th century Butyrka prison in central Moscow has held a slew of notable figures behind its bars, from persecuted Soviet-era writers Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Isaak Babel to Adolf Hitler's nephew Heinrich.

"We are developing additional medical services ... and even sunbeds will be put in place," Butyrka's head Sergei Telyatnikov told state-run radio station Vesti FM.

The sunbeds, which Mr Telyatnikov said would be used for medical purposes, will be installed by the end of the year, the state-run RIA news agency said.

Russia's crowded, poorly managed prison system ...

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RFE/RL: Documents Indicate Russian Role In Litvinenko Poisoning

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Documents Indicate Russian Role In Litvinenko Poisoning

New documents may shed light on the death of former KGB officer Aleksandr Litvinenko

November 23, 2010

British police are investigating allegations that Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) received a container of radioactive polonium less than three months before a dose of the same substance killed former KGB officer Aleksandr Litvinenko in London in 2006.

London's "Sunday Times" newspaper reports that documents acquired from an unnamed source by Litvinenko's widow, Marina, appear to show the FSB obtained polonium from a Russian nuclear power station in 2006. If real, the evidence would be the strongest to date that Russian special forces were behind the murder of Litvinenko, a former intelligence agent turned staunch Kremlin critic who died four years ago.

RFE/RL's Russian service correspondents Natalia Golitsina and Andrei Sharogradsky spoke to Aleksandr Goldfarb, a friend of the Litvinenko's, and intelligence expert Andrei Soldatov.

RFE/RL: Can you tell us about the ...

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FIDH: The Russian Government Must Cooperate With Austrian Judicial Authorities...

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27 November 2010

"The Russian government needs to cooperate with Austrian judicial authorities,” says Marek Svoboda of People in Need, on behalf of a coalition of human rights groups monitoring the Israilov-trial in Vienna [1]. "Specifically, the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov should testify in the on-going Israilov case, as there is compelling evidence suggesting that Chechen authorities were involved in the crime.”

Yesterday, the presiding judge in the Viennese Penal Court, Friedrich Forsthuber, concluded the first part of the Israilov trial, and officially decided to call President Kadyrov to testify about his involvement in the murder of Umar Israilov. This request will be made via the Russian Prosecutor General. The jury trial has been prolonged, and a verdict is expected at the end of January. Israilov was shot and killed outside his home in Vienna on 13 January 2009. Israilov was a refugee from the Russian republic of Chechnya, who had lodged a ...

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RFE/RL: Russia's Opposition Still Faces A Hard Road

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Russia's Opposition Still Faces A Hard Road

Russian police officers detain an opposition supporter during the "Day of Wrath" protest rally against government policy in central Moscow on November 12.

November 26, 2010

By David White

On October 31, supporters of Russia's political opposition gathered in the center of Moscow to hold an authorized Strategy 31 protest meeting.

After many previous applications to hold demonstrations had been rejected by the authorities, on this occasion the meeting was sanctioned and around 2,000 people gathered in Triumph Square to hear speeches from, among others, veteran human rights campaigners Lyudmila Alekseyeva and Lev Ponomaryov, Boris Nemtsov, Ilya Yashin and Oleg Kozlovsky of the Solidarity movement, and Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov. Conspicuous by his absence on the platform was the leader of Other Russia and the originator of the Strategy 31 campaign, Eduard Limonov.

The Strategy 31 campaign was launched in the summer of 2009 with the aim of defending ...

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