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Russian Federation has called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council over the series of recent terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation. (01-SEP-04)
 

Amnesty International, one of the biggest human rights protection organization has appealed to the Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Shreder, before his official visit to the Russian Federation to put a pressure on the President Vladimir Putin. (29-AUG-04)
 

The State Duma is to consider a series of regulations that could restrict or heavily tax funding for Russia´s NGOs. Veronika Marchenko (picture), the Head of the Mother´s Right Foundation – member organisation of the Russian Research Center for Human Rights,  spends much of her time locked in struggle with the Russian government. (27-AUG-2004)
 

Today the Russian Supreme Court upheld a sentence the Moscow City Court earlier handed down on Russian researcher Igor Sutyagin, who was found guilty of spying. The Moscow City Court on April 7 sentenced Sutyagin to 15 years in prison. The court ruled that his term be counted from the date of his detention in Obninsk in the Kaluga region on October 29, 1999. (17-AUG-04)

Open appeal of the President of National Olympic Committee of the Chechen Republic, sport-master of international class Ruslan Badalov to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. (13-AUG-04)
 

Russian Federation has begun its one month chairmanship of the UN Security Council on August 1st. As chairman of the council, the Russian Federation will give priorities to discussions about situations in Kosovo, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Middle East and conflicts in Africa, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov. (06-AUG-04)
 

As the case of Igor Sutyagin (picture) makes its way through the appeal process, he needs your help. On April 7, 2004 the Moscow City Court sentenced Igor Sutyagin, a researcher from the U.S. and Canada Institute in Moscow, to 15 year in hard labor. He is accused in treason and espionage. (06-AUG-04)
 

The Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin (picture) and the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe Alvaro Hil-Robles came with the official visit to Krasnodar on the 23 of July. Kuban is the fifth region chosen by European ombudsman as the strategically important and indicative for studying all processes connected with observance of the rights and freedom of the person in the Russian Federation. (03-AUG-04)
 

On July, 15, 2004 at 12-00 representatives of Committee ” For Civil Rights “, the Moscow Helsinki Group, social movement ” Civil Resistance “, social movement ” For human rights” and political partie “Yabloko” carried out joint protest action against militian boundlessness in Bashkortostan near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. (23-JULY-04)