On Saturday riot police in the capital of Ingushetia, Nazran used batons, tear gas and fired shots into the air to disperse around a thousand demonstrators protesting against corruption and human rights violations in this Russian Federation republic

The European Court of Human Rights protects you and I. If the Russian authorities have decided that they can violate Vasily Aleksanian’s right to life or any other fundamental human rights with impunity, we must show them that they are mistaken

The Zamostyansky District Court in Vinnytsa has rejected an application made by the Department for Fighting Organized Crime to take Mikhail Gangan whose extradition is sought by the Russian authorities into custody again

PACE President Lluís Maria de Puig does not exclude the possibility of pressure being brought to bear of Russia to ensure that it enforces the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and provides proper medical treatment for former YUKOS Vice-President Vasily Aleksanian

The Russian Supreme Court has refused to release former Vice President of YUKOS Vasily Aleksanian who is being held on remand despite being gravely ill and in contravention of repeated demands from the European Court of Human Rights that he be transferred to a special hospital for treatment

A protest rally of business people in Minsk on Monday 21 January called for the dismissal of those responsible for the destruction of small business

Andrei Blinushov from HRO.org believes that this is probably revenge because Centre’s staff allowed their premises to be used for putting forward the Presidential candidacy of dissident, human rights defender and writer Vladimir Bukovsky

The Memorial Human Rights Centre believes the attempt by the Chechen Prosecutor to liquidate the office of the British Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development to have political overtones - and the children they help are suffering

The court saga continues over the administrative charges against Nizhny Novgorod human rights defender Stanislav Dmitrievsky brought in connection with the “March of those in dissent”

We would, however, remind the Russian Federation authorities of a much better method of fighting wrongful accusations than charges of "extremism". Prove them wrong by finding the truth. “Voice of Beslan” asks no more

The Leader of the Belarusian Association of Entrepreneurs Alexander Shumchenko and the Leader of the United Civic Party Anatoly Lebedko have been imprisoned for 15 days for taking part in protests in Minsk yesterday, 10 January

The Vinnytsa Regional Court of Appeal on Friday 11 January released Mikhail Gangan from custody as he is presently seeking asylum in Ukraine

The Prosecutor in Ingushetia has applied to the court to declare an appeal made by the civic organization “Voice of Beslan” in November 2005 extremist.

The leaders of «The Other Russia» Garry Kasparov and Edward Limonov, as well as the politicians Vladimir Ryzhkov and Boris Hemtsov, have addressed an open letter to President Yushchenko asking him to ensure an unbiased review of Mikhail Gangan’s application for refugee status in Ukraine

Andrei Klimov is spending his first Christmas in a Belarusian penal colony for an article written on the Internet. And it’s 2008. If we simply watch the worst aspects of the Soviet era return and do nothing, we also bear responsibility.

While there can be various motives for such criminal actions, the recent attacks on sites with no financial interests (i.e. Maidan and ourselves, HRO.org in Russia and others) force us to follow any attacks which effectively block the flow of information very closely

Leader of the United Civic Party Anatoly Lebedko has been stopped from leaving the country on the pretext of criminal proceedings over a 2004 interview in which he said there was a shadow budget being used to buy weapons. He is accusing of slandering Lukashenko!

A Vinnytsa court has allowed the police application to hold Mikhail Gangan, the activist from the National Bolshevik Party, which is banned in Russia. The detention is for 40 days while the issue of Gangan’s possible extradition to Russia is considered

The Vinnytsa Human Rights Group is calling on the Ukrainian authorities to allow Mikhail Gangan to apply for refugee status in Ukraine and stresses that it would be a violation of Ukraine’s international commitments were he to be extradited without being given this chance

The section “Arguments about the role of Stalin in history” with its description of the tyrant as “one of the most successful leaders of the USSR”, has been shelved. However the authors still attack oligarchs and Georgia, praise Putin’s abolition of elections for the post of governors of the regions and the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky