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Ultra-right groups threaten Russian journalists, editors and experts
Deputy Head of human rights research centre receives death threat from neo-Nazi group.
Another Russian social activist suffered severe beating
Yuri Grachev, editor of the oppositional newspaper Solnechnogorsk Forum and a deputy in the Solnechnogorsk City Council, has been attacked and severely beaten by unknown persons.
New crimes of Colonel Budanov
After an early release of former colonel Yuri Budanov, accused in rape and murder of a young Chechen woman Elza Kungayeva, evidence of his involvement in murder of three more Chechen residents is revealed.
Danger overhangs editor of Echo Moskvy Radio
After a string of murders targeting journalists in the Russian Federation, their security is still in question.
Russian Federation reviewed under the UPR
On the morning of 4 February 2009, the Working Group on the UPR examined the human rights situation in the Russian Federation. The large delegation was led by the Justice Minister, Aleksandr Konovalov, right. Over 60 States attempted to present a broad range of questions and recommendations, although time constraints resulted in over 20 States being unable to speak.
Murder of Markelov and Baburova: more than two weeks later
More than two weeks have passed since the murder of human rights defender Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. What has been done to investigate the crime and bring the persons responsible to justice?
Russia to revise controversial treason bill
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has ordered his staff to revise a controversial bill which would loosen the definition of treason. The draft legislation, earlier backed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been met with public outrage and criticism. Opponents say the bill harkens back to the days of Soviet repression, and could potentially allow authorities to brand any government critic a traitor. A group of prominent Russian rights activists defines the bill as “legislation in the spirit of Stalin and Hitler”.
Russian President visits newspaper of slain journalists
Following large amounts of criticism of President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s silence in the wake of the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, Medvedev has finally responded and held a meeting with Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitri Muratov and former Soviet President and Novaya shareholder Mikhail Gorbachev.
Half of nonbattle losses in the Russian army are suicides
Russian youth of service age have strong reasons to be unwilling to go to the Russian army, neither by conscription nor under contracts.