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	Russia Human Rights Practices, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Human rights organizations claim that cases involving the death penalty are shrouded in secrecy and are still governed by procedures defined by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1982.
		Human Rights Watch has also collected testimony from civilians in Chechnya on cases of the use of rape by Russian military and internal forces as a form of punishment against residents of villages which are believed to support separatist forces.
		Nevertheless, Russian human rights monitors have documented cases in which convictions were obtained on the basis of the original, illegal testimony (after the defendant refuted that testimony in court), and even in the absence of other proof of guilt.
	www.usemb.se /human/human95/russia.htm (13397 words)

	2005 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Russia
		The most notable human rights development during the year was continued centralization of power in the executive branch, which was strengthened by changes in the parliamentary election laws and a move away from election of regional governors to their nomination by the president for confirmation by regional legislatures.
		Human rights advocates in some regions were charged with libel, contempt of court, or interference in judicial procedures in cases with distinct political overtones.
		Human rights groups attributed at least part of the statistical decline to the reluctance of detainees' relatives to complain to the authorities or human rights groups out of fear of reprisals.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61671.htm (19624 words)

	Human Rights Practices for Russia in 2002
		Human rights advocates reported that the strict new limits on time held in police custody without access to family or lawyers, and the stricter standards for opening cases, have discouraged abuse of suspects by police as well.
		Human rights advocates in some regions have been charged with libel, contempt of court, or interference in judicial procedures in cases with distinct political overtones.
		In the past, human rights monitors have documented cases in which convictions were obtained on the basis of testimony that the defendant recanted in court, even in the absence of other proof of guilt; however, the new Criminal Procedure Code specifically excluded such confessions from evidence.
	www.freeserbia.net /Documents/Russia2003.html (20128 words)

	CHECHNYA: Renewed Catastrophe (Focus on Human Rights Violations) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Human Rights Watch was dismayed to learn that the planned launch of the UK government’s Human Rights Annual Report, previously scheduled for Thursday 16 September, has been delayed.
		Russia’s forces are committing abuses against displaced Chechens in Ingushetia as the brutality of the conflict in Chechnya spills over into this neighboring republic, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
		In letters to NATO and the European Union, which are holding summits with Russia on May 28, Human Rights Watch said that the Russian military's record of abuse in Chechnya undermines the core values and strategic goals of both institutions.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/russia/chechnya (2718 words)

	World Policy Institute - Putin's Russia: The Human Rights Record Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They have a right to bring those claims to Strasbourg and yet the Russian Government with impunity has assassinated many petitioners and their families who are bringing claims to the European Court of Human Rights.
		He has directly taken aim at human rights advocates and has talked openly about the country being a nation under siege and the notion that dissidents are traitors.
		One of the things that was striking in listening to our Russian human rights colleagues how much harder their life is today in the sense that the West is not very interested and I think we can see two dimensions to that.
	www.worldpolicy.org /projects/russia/mar10transcript.html (10670 words)

	Human rights in Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although human rights record in Russia has largely improved since Soviet time with Russia's move towards democracy and implementation of property rights, freedom of speech and religion, still the situation with human rights remains uneven and is often criticized by local and international observers.
		In 1996, human rights activist Sergey Kovalev resigned as chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission to protest the government's record, particularly the war in Chechnya.
		Parliament in 1997 passed a law establishing a "human rights ombudsman," a position that is provided for in Russia's constitution and is required of members of the Council of Europe, to which Russia was admitted in February 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_in_Russia (1226 words)

	Human Rights in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The rights to privacy, to freedom from inhumane and cruel treatment, from arbitrary arrest and detainment are all routinely violated (as lack of confidentiality, non-consentual experimental research, quarantine) in the name of public health in Russia.
		However shocking, human rights violations in the name of public health are not always a result of intentionally malevolent action.
		Similarly, a necessary ingredient in the prevention and recognition of human rights concepts is an adequate understanding of civil and legal matters by the population.
	www.spiral.com /infoshare/Article2.html (1183 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses: Human Rights--Russia
		Human rights leaders and high-ranking officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, have expressed deep concern for the potential for religious discrimination and human rights violations in Russia if cases like this continue.
		Russia's Constitutional Court released its decision upholding the clause in the 1997 law requiring religions applying for registration to show documented proof of their presence in Russia for more than 15 years.
		Russia, a chamber of the Russian Supreme Court annulled three lower court decisions that denied custody to a mother solely because she is one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
	www.jw-media.org /rights/russia.htm (2240 words)

	Russia, Human Rights
		But American human rights activists are up in arms over what they perceive as the Bush administration turning a blind eye to Russian abuses -- especially in the war-torn Caucasus region of Chechnya -- as the price for Moscow's friendship and its support for the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
		Catherine Fitzpatrick is the executive director of the International League for Human Rights, one of the main U.S. rights groups with observer status at the United Nations.
		Ultimately, she says, if Russia wants to be part of the West, it will have to play by Western rules, such as respect for democracy and human rights.
	www.cdi.org /Russia/180-5.cfm (1041 words)

	Human Rights
		The Human Rights Watch reports that were sharply critical of Israel's killing of civilians in Lebanon represent the latest battle for Jewish hearts and minds in the ideological war over the Middle East.
		Human rights groups are saying that the evidence they've gathered demands an international hearing.
		A consideration of economic rights as coequal with civil and political rights may be the only way for the human rights movement to recapture its power and urgency.
	www.thenation.com /directory/human_rights (1099 words)

	Human Rights House Exhibition “Human rights in Russia”
		From April 14 to May 11, an exhibition “Human rights in Russia”, which is organized by the Russian Research Center for Human Rights under the aegis of the Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, is being held in the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia in Moscow.
		Besides, materials about activities of human rights organizations and concrete examples of their successful activities in protecting human rights are exhibited there.
		Human rights organizations have never had such an opportunity to present to the general public results of their work during the last ten years.
	www.humanrightshouse.org /dllvis5.asp?id=4438 (462 words)

	Human Rights Group Urges Russia to Prosecute Gay Rally Attackers - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A U.S-based human rights group on Friday called on the Russian authorities to launch a full investigation and prosecute those responsible for the violent attacks by nationalist protesters on participants in a gay rally last month, Associated Press news agency reports.
		Human Rights Watch also urged Russian prosecutors to drop the charges of holding an unsanctioned demonstration brought against some of those who took part in the May 27 event.
		Human Rights Watch said that hundreds of skinheads, nationalists and Orthodox protesters were involved in the violence and that police “failed totally to protect people peacefully trying to exercise their rights.”
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/06/02/humanrightsforgays.shtml (587 words)

	ECOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN RUSSIA Conditions for energizing human rights activities have been created in modern ...
		The number of human rights groups is almost the same.
		The alliance of the human rights movement and the environmental movement opens up new promising prospects for the human rights movement.
		The first successful attempt of such a union was made in St. Petersburg in year 2000 with the creation and registration of the inter-regional coalition "Environment and Human Rights," headed by three co-directors (A. Nikitin, L. Fedorov, G. Pasko, secretary general Y. Vdovin, and chair of the consultative committee A. Yablokov).
	gadfly.igc.org /russia/yablokov1.htm (782 words)

	JURIST - Russia: Russian Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
		Russia is a federation, but the precise distribution of powers between the central government and the regional and local authorities is still evolving.
		Although the Russian Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens in some areas in 2001, serious problems remain in many areas.
		Its record was poor in Chechnya, where the federal security forces demonstrated little respect for basic human rights and there were credible reports of serious violations, including numerous reports of extrajudicial killings by both the Government and Chechen fighters.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/russia.htm (1213 words)

	Pravda.RU Human rights servicing foreign interests in Russia
		Poor Russia, it is entwined in a mesh of oversight and enlightenment centres, which teach us ignorant Russians thousands of things, from the way to treat thieving magnates to what can be viewed as sufficient proof of a Russian spying for a foreignintelligence service.
		The President of Russia should be concerned with eliminating poverty according to 37% of those interviewed by the ROMIR Monitoring Company in May of this year.
		Russia's equestrian championship for disabled people, which will be held on May 29-30 at the training Olympic center Planyornaya in the Moscow region, will be another stage in the preparations of Russian paralympic athletes before the Games in Athens More details...
	newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/06/01/54224.html (2388 words)

	Selling Human Rights in Russia
		Shvedov is the news director for the nearly seventy bureaus affiliated with Memorial, a nongovernmental organization that catalogues and publicly commemorates the millions of victims of Soviet-era state-sponsored repression.
		Separatists are mostly Muslim and some factions have resorted to terrorism, while Russia has garnered the "inglorious distinction of being a world leader" in state-sponsored kidnappings, according to a recent Human Rights Watch report.
		Right now there is a new law up for vote in the Russian Parliament.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060313/risley (1193 words)

	World Policy Institute - Putin's Russia: The Human Rights Record
		Desires from the Russian government to centralize power, the ongoing war in Chechnya, and recent high-profile criminal cases like the prosecution of businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky (former head of Yukos, Russia's largest oil company) all have shown ways in which the legal system is being manipulated in a way which undermines human rights.
		Holland said that her Russian colleagues have told her this problem is compounded by a perceived lack of interest from western powers where the area of human rights in Russia is concerned.
		He did note that Newsweek Russia has not had any official pressure to shape its reporting yet, but that it was possible that this may occur in the future.
	www.worldpolicy.org /projects/russia/march10.html (922 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Human rights must be based on religious morality - patriarch
		"Human rights to us are not the right to do anything you like," Patriarch Alexy II said.
		Patriarch Alexy II said that Western liberals often treated human rights as meaning freedom with no restrictions, and added that moral principles and faith should be the basis of secular law.
		He said religious values could form the only basis for human rights for all countries and civilizations, and blamed excessive liberalism for the declining population, growing xenophobia, and other serious problems facing the country.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20060417/46515287.html (501 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Angela Merkel should tackle Russia on human rights
		Merkel, who took office Nov. 22, said in an interview published last week that there were developments in Russia that she viewed "as cause for concern, for example the new law against non-governmental organizations." But she also stressed that Germany "needs good, stable relations with Russia" to ensure the continued flow of natural gas.
		Russia's defense minister on Friday defended his country's military contacts with China, insisting that the cooperation would not upset the security balance in the Far East despite Japanese concerns about Beijing's moves to boost its defense capability.
		German Chancellor Angela Merkel should tackle Russia on respect for human rights and democracy when she visits Moscow next week for the first time since taking office, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2006/01/13/71101.html (2542 words)

	Monitoring Human Rights in the Former Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many human rights activists and organization monitor the situation in the former Soviet Union, but we are still far from the true picture.
		Our goal is to bring news and opinions about the state of human rights in the former Soviet Union in a very broad sense.
		Human Rights and Social Tensions in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan
	www.humanrights-fsu.com (211 words)

	International Campaigns: Russia - Human Rights - Sierra Club
		We also founded the Environmental Rights Center in St. Petersburg to address issues at the intersection of environment and human rights.
		The coalition is led by the environmental activists Grigory Pasko, Lev Feydorov and me. The activities of this coalition include (1) monitoring and collecting environmental and human rights information; (2) supporting environmental defenders; and (3) utilizing the experience of previous legal cases.
		A coalition of environmental and human rights groups is working to initiate a referendum to give the Russian people a voice to influence this dangerous new policy.
	www.sierraclub.org /human-rights/russia/statement.asp (974 words)

	Human Rights First \| Human Rights Defenders - Russia
		In Russia, judges receive low salaries and few resources and are therefore susceptible to corruption.
		For example, Judge Alexander Melikov was forced to resign due to pressure he received from a high ranking judge after issuing a lenient but legal sentence in a case involving a non-citizen.
		In addition, a new measure to increase President Putin’s control over nominations and selection of high level judges was recently passed, further extending the executive’s influence over the courts The measure’s sponsor, Sergei Mironov, said the initiative was meant to improve Russia’s counterterrorism efforts.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /defenders/hrd_russia/hrd_russia_03.htm (300 words)

	REENIC: Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Russia (although this page on About.com is officially named: "Geography and map of Russia", it in fact contains, besides geographical data, information on population, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues)
		Russia on the Web : a project of The Transnational Institute, a network of Russian, American and West European organizations which have been sponsoring East-West exchange programs since 1981.
		Vladimir, Russia (a team working with Serendipity-Russia is developing a tourism oriented English language web site for the City of Vladimir, Russia).
	menic.utexas.edu /reenic/countries/russia.html (1920 words)

	CBS News \| Russia Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Report
		The U.S. report "abounds in clear juggling of facts and is a specimen of unconcealed double standards in relation to human rights in Russia and the world," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday.
		The ministry pointed to "human rights violations within the United States, about which authoritative international rights organizations speak ever more loudly, and...
		International concerns about human rights in Russia increased with the passage of a law restricting non-government organizations.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/11/ap/world/mainD8G98NP80.shtml (406 words)

	Human Rights in Russia:
		The Human Rights section of Rule of Law
		UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (a good source for international law)
		Human Rights Watch: Abandoned to the State - Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages
	www.therussiasite.org /soc/hr/hr.html (181 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - PUTIN BACKS GIL-ROBLES FOR REPORT ON RIGHTS IN RUSSIA
		MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - Alvaro Gil-Robles had full support of Russian authorities while drawing his report about human rights in Russia, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights said to the media in Moscow today.
		While in conference, they were discussing human rights compliance in Russia, and the report, which had been prepared with full support by the President and other authorities.
		He had spent several months in Russia to prepare the report, he said.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20050527/40431375.html (350 words)

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