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 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which for the last nine years has been examining Russia’s gross misdeeds, appears finally to have become tired of appearing blind, complacent and helpless. Resolution 1455, passed on 22 June, specifies that Russia, a member of the Council of Europe since 1996, has evaded its responsibilities defined by international obligations. Full Story...Stalinist in spirit
 All Turkmenistan’s national newspapers, including the state’s only Russian-language organ, Neutral Turkmenistan, published an open letter on 4 July to the country’s leader, the self-styled “President of Turkmenistan, the Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi”. The authors of the piece were the 13 chief editors of the organs in which it was published. Full Story...Genrikh Altounyan has died
 Genrikh Ovanesovich Altunyan, former political prisoner and member of the human rights movement during the Soviet era, died on 30 June. Full Story...Chronicle of militia misdeeds: hiding crime and extorting bribes
 Investigations by the state office of the Russian Public Prosecutor have revealed that in the Kostromsky region, the local inspector for the ministry of internal affairs had been bribed to terminate ongoing criminal cases. In 2004, law enforcement bodies in the Voronezh region whitewashed a total of 1,819 crimes, while in the Vologda region the figure was 2,105 for the same period, and another 602 in the first three months of this year. Recent months in Sverdlovsk and surroundings saw 1,747 cases prematurely closed. Thus it is not the militia serving the interests of society, but the other way round. Full Story...Cuban dissidents defy dictatorship
 No fewer than 200 dissidents attended La Asamblea para Promover a la Sociedad Civil (APSC) in Havana on May 20th and 21st. The Assembly in support of Cuba’s civic community took place at the home of Felix Bonne Carcases, one of the leaders of the Assembly and now a former professor at Havana University. Full Story...Militia “behaves like fascists in occupied countryside”
 New details of Russian military arbitrariness have come to light. At a press conference in Moscow, journalists heard stories from human rights activists and victims of the militia’s lawless behaviour in the village of Rozhdestveno (in the Tver district north-west of Moscow), in Tabor rayon (Sverdlovsk district, in the Urals), and the Nefteyugansk area (located in Hanta-Mansisk autonomous region). Full Story...Zeks, food is served!
 On 11 April, the Russian government’s thoughts turned to its convicts. The not underfed officials under Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov issued Decree 205 on “Minimal food and material norms for convicts”. Full Story...Maskhadov’s killers “had promised him peace”
 The circumstances surrounding the death of the president of (separatist) Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, remain shrouded in a veil of secrecy. Official and unofficial agencies and media outlets have supplied wildly different versions of the event. However, facts emerging in the last few days point to Maskhadov being killed as a result of the Russian authorities insincerely and dishonestly portraying an interest in settling the conflict in Chechnya. Full Story...How soldiers differ from killers
 Aslan Maskhadov was a soldier and never lost his soldier’s, or officer’s, honesty. I would assert that he was not only a grateful person, but a good man. And I do not say this without grounds, but based on a personal impression resulting from an acquaintance with him. The death of a human being is always a great misfortune for the relatives, and I grieve together with them and with his people. Full Story...The appeal of the Cuban dissidents
 Dear Friends:
Present-day Cuba is dominated by a Communist regime similar to those which disappeared in 1989 in Eastern Europe. For more than 46 years, a one man rule and only one political party has prevailed; opinions that differ from those propagated by the state are not tolerated, and Amnesty International has declared Cuba the country with the most prisoners of conscience in the world. The financial crisis has immersed the nation in total misery: the average monthly income does not reach 10 dollars. In short, all human rights are violated. Full Story... [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] |
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