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Human Rights in Russian Federation

Accountability for human rights violations key to normalization in ...
1 July 2009

There can be no stability and security for the people of the North Caucasus without an end to human rights violations and full accountability, says a new Amnesty ...

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Accused in Politkovskaya murder case face retrial | Amnesty ...
25 June 2009

Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of three menaccused of involvement in the 2006 killing of journalist AnnaPolitkovskaya.

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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-20grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead byexample and show real commitment ...

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Russian Federation: Amnesty International launches annual report ...
20 May 2009

On 28 May in Moscow, Amnesty International will present theorganization's main conclusions regarding the global trends in theprotection of human rights and will ...

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Medvedev's first year: failure to improve human rights | Amnesty ...
8 May 2009

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

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Russian Federation: One year on President Dmitry Medvedev fails to ...
7 May 2009

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

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No freedom – journalists stopped from doing their jobs | Amnesty ...
3 May 2009

Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day inwhich journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasingnumbers of their colleagues ...

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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.

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No progress in Chechnya without accountability | Amnesty ...
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 ...

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