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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)
 

Acting Chechen President Sergei Abramov narrowly escaped injury in a bomb attack in Grozny on Tuesday. One person was killed and another two were injured when an explosive device was set off on Tuesday in the Leninsky region of Grozny near acting Chechen President Sergei Abramov´s convoy. Abramov was not injured. (13-JULY-04)
 

The Republic of Moldova and Russian Federation are guilty of non-respecting the human rights in the case of Ilascu group. Strasbourg court pronounced on 7th of July the sentence in the case “Ilie Ilascu si other versus the Republic of Moldova and Russian Federation”. (12-JULY-04)
 

The results of the October 5th 2003 presidential elections in the Chechen Republic – with an 87% turn-out and an 81% majority voting for the acting President Akhmad Kadyrov – were only made possible through major fraud and falsification of results, says a recent Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) report. According to the MHG election observers, the elections were a farce, made worse by the full endorsement of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation. (18-JAN-2004)