The employers, the closed joint stock company “Yanovskoye”, have lodged a law suit against the organizers of the strike begun after employees had been paid for less than three of the last six months

Environmental organizations have expressed their concern over the rejection by the parliamentary committee on environmental policy of a draft law imposing a moratorium on the total felling and export of wood, chippings etc

Another human rights activist, Albert Pchelintsev, head of the civic organization, “Against Corruption, Lies, and Dishonour”, was attacked in Khimki near Moscow on Friday evening.

Riot police arrested more than 15 activists of the civic movement “European Belarus” who were planning to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Belarus

The strongest objections are aroused by the norm on appealing against the results of the elections by a court of only one level, and within two days only

A 41-year-old from the Dnipropetrovsk region, Roman Shvedov received a 4 year sentence with a three year probation period for the assault in September 2007

In Kazan on 20 July 2009 law enforcement agencies paralyzed the activities of two well-known civic organizations – the interregional human rights organization AGORA and the Kazan Human Rights Centre

On what Russians obliquely term “historical policy”, on a war supposedly defensive but to be waged on foreign territory and against historians and journalists, and on thoughts which no propagandist din will deafen

On what Russians obliquely term “historical policy”, on a war supposedly defensive but to be waged on foreign territory and against historians and journalists, and on thoughts which no propagandist din will deafen

The video at the URL below is in memory of human rights defender Natalya Estemirova abducted in Chechnya last week and murdered in cold blood. It is not easy viewing, but please try and also pass it on to others.

The Administrative Court has issued a judgment stating that “A passport is the property of a Ukrainian citizen”, and in accordance with Article 41 § 4 of the Constitution nobody can be unlawfully deprived of their right of ownership

The European Court of Human Rights found two violations of the right to life regarding the lack of a plausible explanation for the disappearance of Khizir Tepsurkayev and not having carried out an effective investigation

“One has the impression that the Russian authorities are once and for all turning away from their citizens, demonstratively refusing to defend their rights", a Memorial Human Rights Centre representative notes

The statement reads that the experts, if they wish, can help the Russian law enforcement agencies in their investigation by providing any specific information about the crime that they may have

An interview with Myroslava Gongadze, Georgy’s widow as to likely progress and conclusion of the investigation into the murder following the arrest of former Police Colonel Oleksy Pukach

An interview with Myroslava Gongadze, Georgy’s widow as to likely progress and conclusion of the investigation into the murder following the arrest of former Police Colonel Oleksy Pukach

What impact on progress in the Gongadze case will the arrest of Oleksy Pukach have? What are the chances of uncovering who ordered the murder? Is this arrest now linked with somebody wishing to play the Gongadze card in the run up to the elections?

What impact on progress in the Gongadze case will the arrest of Oleksy Pukach have? What are the chances of uncovering who ordered the murder? Is this arrest now linked with somebody wishing to play the Gongadze card in the run up to the elections?

The letter is signed by Yelena Bonner, Vaclav Havel, Desmond Tutu, Andre Glucksmann, Sergei Kovalyov, Tom Stoppard, Zbigniew Brzezinski and many others

The leader of the regional branch of the movement "Justice" has been murdered. His body was found in a sand quarry near Petrozavodsk. He disappeared in May, and in that same month the organization’s Moscow premises were searched by the authorities