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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Russia asks extra time to answer European Court's questions
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN Nicknamelove_caucasus (Original Message) Sent: 4/28/2007 2:16 PM
Russia asks extra time to answer European Court's questions
The Russian government has asked for another delay - till May 22 - for preparing answers to the "communication" of the European Court for Human Rights on the complaint lodged by the relatives of the militants, who perished on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria), concerning refusal to give out their bodies for burial.
The complaint named "Khalimat Sabanchieva et al (50 applicants in total, - the author) versus Russia" was filed on October 26 and on November 15, 2005.
The "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that the government of Russia had already once asked for a delay in preparing answers to the Memorandum of the European Court - till April 11 this year.
Meanwhile, it follows from the European Court's letter that the complaint was awarded a priority.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/1185179.html
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Criminal case filed concerning the exceeding of official authority during crackdown on Dissenters' March
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 4:05 PM 25.4.2007 19:57 MSK Criminal case filed concerning the exceeding of official authority during crackdown on Dissenters' March RUSSIA, Saint Petersburg. On April 4, the Procuratorship of the Central Region of Saint Petersburg filed a criminal case concerning the exceeding of official authority during the crackdown on the Dissenters' March in Petersburg on March 3. Investigations will be conducted of five administrative detentions on Nevsky Prospekt, reported Vice-Governor Valerie Tikhonov. As reported on April 23, by the press-service of the St. Petersburg department of the Yabloko party, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg has received an answer to a March 9 Deputies' Inquiry by Mikhail Amosov and Natalya Yevdokimova. The deputies were interested to know on what basis the authorities took "strict measures" in the course of the Dissenters' March on March 3. The Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg reported that 300 OMON from other regions of Russia ... >> full...
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