• Two Years Later, Estemirova’s Murder Remains Unsolved

    July 14, 2011 | admin

    Russia’s official investigation of the murder of Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova is being carried out in a dishonest fashion, according to Presidential Council on the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights member Svetlana Gannushkina, the Other Russia reports.

  • U.Baysayev: Refusal to Grant Residence Permits to Chechens in Norway Looks Like Political Order

    March 13, 2011 | admin

    Usam Baysayev, a human rights defender and a member of Human Rights Center “Memorial”, stated to the Kavkaz-Uzel website that refusals to grant residence permits by Norway to refugees from Northern Caucasus are politically motivated.

  • Prominent Russian Rights Activist Calls On EU To Change Asylum Policy

    March 10, 2011 | admin

    Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina is calling on the European Union to revise its legislation on the treatment of Chechen refugees.

  • Secret Meeting with Kadyrov’s Delegation in Germany

    February 14, 2011 | admin

    Berlin Interior Senator, Ehrhart Körting from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands – SDP) held secret meetings in Berlin with representatives of the puppet regime from the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

  • Rights Defenders Organized A Press-Conference About Murder of Natalya Estemirova

    July 10, 2010 | admin

    Human Rights Center “Memorial” reported that on July 8, 2010, at 12 a.m. in the Independent press-center at Moscow a press-conference which names “Questions to Investigation of Natalya Estemirova’s murder” took place.

  • Ozdiev Family is a Victim of Puppet Regime in Chechnya

    May 25, 2010 | admin

    Human Rights Center “Memorial” reported that Ozdiev family are seriously under threat of puppet regime in Chechnya.

  • Kadirov Accuses “Memorial” of Exaggerating the Number of Kidnappings in Chechnya

    May 1, 2010 | admin

    “Kavkaz-Uzel” reported, Ramzan Kadirov, head of bloody regime in Chechnya, claimed the annual number of kidnappings in Chechnya, cited by the Human Rights Center “Memorial”, does not correspond to reality.

  • Svetlana Gannushkina: “There is No Stability in Chechnya!”

    March 27, 2010 | admin

    “There’s no stability whatsoever in Chechnya. Russia has no policy for Northern Caucasus – only an attempt to use bayonets that leads to numerous victims only”. This was stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, chair of the committee “Civil Assistance”, a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial” and a member of the Board on Human Rights at the President of the Russian Federation, last week in Moscow in the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre during expanded debates “Conflicts in the Caucasus” from the general cycle “War and Peace”.

  • Russian Activists Nominated for Nobel

    February 2, 2010 | admin

    Candidates for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize include a Russian human rights group, a Chinese dissident and an inanimate object: the Internet, people who made the nominations said Tuesday.

  • Inquiry into Estemirova’s Murder is Under Pressure, Human Rights Activists Assert

    January 27, 2010 | admin

    As stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the Committee “Civil Assistance”, the criminal investigation on Natalya Estemirova’s murder faces problems, although inspectors are still going to round it up. Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”, believes that involvement of power agents in her murder should be considered as one of the main versions in searching the criminals.

  • Svetlana Gannushkina: “There is No Rule in Chechnya”

    December 21, 2009 | admin

    Today the Spanish newspaper “Gara” has published an interview with Svetlana Gannushkina, chairwoman of the Civic Assistance Committee for Refugees and heads of the Migration and Law Network of the Human Rights Center Memorial, honored with Sakharov Prize, on the terrible situation in Chechnya and Russia.

  • Chechen Human Rights Defender was Detained in Moscow (Updated)

    November 5, 2009 | admin

    On November 5, 2009 in Moscow gang members of pro-Moscow puppet Chechen regime detained Arbi Khachukayev, the head of a Chechen public organization “Pravo” (Law) in Grozny.