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Two Russian human rights activists – Natalya Estemirova, 40, a journalist and teacher, and Sergey Kovalev (picture), president of Russia´s Human Rights Institute – are nominees for the European Parliament´s top human rights award. Both have been actively campaigning against use of force in the Chechen Republic. (06-OCT-2004)
 

Russian Federation before and after Beslan in Human Rights Watch discussion. In September, 2004 the World has been shocked by the awful tragedy which has occurred in Beslan. The problem of terrorism rises in our everyday life more sharply. (07-OCT-04)
 

The Helsinki Commission has released a report on violations of human rights in OSCE member states that are taking part in the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation meeting that starts in Warsaw on Monday. In particular, the authors of the report surveyed the plight of people from the Caucasus region and the Romany minority in the Russian Federation. (05-OCT-04)
 

Director of the Human Rights House “Russian Research Center for Human Rights”, Vinogradova Lubov (picture), says that the human rights defenders of the Center are deeply disappointed with the Russian authorities´ reaction to the tragic events in Beslan. (08-SEP-04)
 

A coalition of Russian and international human rights organizations united today to condemn in the strongest terms the taking hostage and killing of hundreds of children, parents and teachers by a group of armed men and women in a school in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia, in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. (08-SEP-04)
 

The Human Rights House Foundation (HRH) wishes to express its sincere condolences and deepest sympathy with all those suffering from the brutal and despicable, but most of all tragic loss of so many innocent lives in Beslan, North Ossetia last week. (07-SEP-04)
 

Wails of grief reverberated through the streets of Beslan on Sunday as its residents began burying the more than 300 people slaughtered in a 52-hour hostage crisis last week. The standoff with a group of terrorists came to a violent and unexpected end Friday when a giant explosion rocked the gymnasium at School No. 1, where many of the more than 1,000 hostages were being held. The blast triggered a chaotic 10-hour battle that killed more than 300 people, many of them children. (06-SEP-04)
 

The world community has rushed to aid families and victims of the North Ossetian school hostage crisis with the United States, Canada, Italy, Ukraine and even Australia setting aside funds and humanitarian aid for the Russian Federation. (06-SEP-04)
 

A woman released from the school in North Ossetia where militants are holding hundreds of children hostage for a third day said there could be over 1000 hostages, instead of the officially announced 320. This came as federal authorities resumed talks with the rebels Friday morning. (03-SEP-04)