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Russian Federation: Accountability is key to normalization in North Caucasus - 1 July 2009

Only full accountability for the human rights violations that have been taking place over the past decade and more can bring real normalization to Chechnya and the North Caucasus, Amnesty Internationa

Accused in Politkovskaya murder case face retrial
 - 25 June 2009

Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of three men accused of involvement in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

G-20 must set the example and clean up their human rights record - 28 May 2009

Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20 grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by example and show

Russian Federation: Amnesty International launches annual report and second Memorandum to President Medvedev - 20 May 2009

On 28 May in Moscow, Amnesty International will present the organization's main conclusions regarding the global trends in the protection of human rights and will il

Medvedev's first year: failure to improve human rights - 8 May 2009

The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has not delivered on the promises he made about human rights during his first year in power.

Russian Federation: One year on President Dmitry Medvedev fails to improve the human rights situation - 7 May 2009

Little has been done to improve the human rights situation in the Russian Federation – in some areas it has even worsened, one year after President Dmitry Medve

No freedom – journalists stopped from doing their jobs - 3 May 2009

Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing numbers of their colleagues a

Organizers of Russian art exhibition charged with inciting hatred - 27 April 2009

Yurii Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev could face up to five years' imprisonment after they organized a contemporary art exhibition in Moscow.

No progress in Chechnya without accountability - 17 April 2009

There can be no stability and security for the people of Chechnya, until those responsible for gross human rights abuses in the country over the last 10 years are brou

Russian Federation: Normalization in Chechnya must bring accountability - 16 April 2009

Normalization in Chechnya is not possible without full accountability for the grievous human rights violations that have taken place in the country ravaged by two wa