The present system whereby parents may - or may not - find out about their child’s vaccination, and the school may - or may not - find out about reasons why a child shouldn’t receive a vaccination needs to be addressed

The present system whereby parents may - or may not - find out about their child’s vaccination, and the school may - or may not - find out about reasons why a child shouldn’t receive a vaccination needs to be addressed

In comparison with analogous figures received a month ago, the number of respondents who trust the Ukrainian media has risen by 5 percent, while the number of those who trust the Russian media has fallen by almost 5%.

The harsh sentence evoked outrage, and more than three hundred people stood outside the court chanting “Freedom for Dashkevich!”

“In order to honour the memory of the victims of the repression and to help people learn the history of their families, “Memorial” began work in 1998 on creating a single database including information from Memorial Books already published or ready for publication in various areas of the former USSR". The list now available on the Internet has one and a half million names.

Petro Grigorenko was one of the original members of the Moscow Helsinki Group, an active defender of the rights of the repressed Crimean Tatar people and spoke out in support of the demonstrators who went out onto Red Square on 26 August 1968 to protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia as well as of other dissidents

The German Ambassador expressed consternation at the trial behind closed doors of Zmiter Dashkevich: "Why have they not learned from the lessons of Stalinism and the terror trials, which we had in Germany?”

Decree of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, № 908/2006

The main efforts of the new department will be aimed at fighting “inaccurate” coverage of events in the media. According to the statement from the US Defense Department, particular attention will be paid to the Internet and Internet-blogs.

The main efforts of the new department will be aimed at fighting “inaccurate” coverage of events in the media. According to the statement from the US Defense Department, particular attention will be paid to the Internet and Internet-blogs.

On 9 November 2006 it will be thrty years since the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, The level of awareness of the UHG and the dissident movement in Ukraine is on the whole low, and virtually non-existent in many other countries. We asked those who resisted the totalitarian regime and defended their rights to share their thoughts. .

Those attending the meeting in Moscow on 30 October held banners reading We won’t let Russia be returned to 1937!”, “Comrade Chekists, you’re getting up to your old ways”, as well as pictures of present political prisoners

The leader of the Belarusian organization “Youth Front” Zmiter Dashkevich was arrested in September for “activities on behalf of an unregistered organization”

A new draft law has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada on reinstating the right of religious organizations to permanently use land

Rustam Muminov was deported from Russia on 24 October after the European Court of Human Rights had called for the deportation procedure to be halted

Increased activity in the regions will include helping to create small trade union offices which journalists can approach for assistance and reaching agreements with local law clinics on providing legal help to journalists in difficult situations

Increased activity in the regions will include helping to create small trade union offices which journalists can approach for assistance and reaching agreements with local law clinics on providing legal help to journalists in difficult situations

In the light of the mounting political repression in Russia, the author believes that this 30 October 2006 should be considered not only a Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Political Repression in the past, but a Day of Protest against new repression – present and future.

Among the priorities for the Public Council’s work the following were highlighted: public broadcasting; privatization of the press; an improvement in the laws “On advertising” and “On television and radio broadcasting”.

In 1974 30 October was designated the Day of the Political Prisoner in the USSR. This was a decision taken by prisoners of the Soviet political camps themselves. … People deprived of their freedom because of their convictions began a struggle for your freedom and ours, for human dignity. – A call from Russian human rights groups to oppose the curbing of freedom in Russia