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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

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  • One-person show mentioning Putin and Medvedev cancelled in Rostov-on-Don

    A scandal has burst out on the eve of the regional festival of young playwrights "Rostov Readings", scheduled for May 25, related to the play of the young Rostov playwright Vladimir Golyshev named "Prebiotics". Along with other Russian politicians, the play mentions Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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  • Armenian GPO accuses social services of machinations

    The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has opened a criminal case on the offences, revealed within the pension system in 2009-2010. Bureaucrats used machinations to embezzle more than 113 million drams from the state budget.

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  • Detainee Tigran Postanjyan in Armenia went on a hunger strike

    Tigran Postanjyan who is in prison "Nubarashen" went on a hunger strike protesting against the prison conditions. According to Postanjyan, 18 prisoners are kept in a cell of 25 square meters, the people sleep in turn and it is impossible to observe elementary rules of hygiene in the cell.

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  • Teenager beaten by militiamen in the district hospital. His mother Aishat Guseinova is behind him. Dagestan, Shamil District, July 2010. Photo by the HRC "Memorial": www.memo.ru In Dagestan, policemen accused of beating teenager refuse to plead guilty

    On May 3, in the course of the judicial session on the case of policemen's beating a 14-year-old teenager, which is considered by the Shamil District Court of Dagestan, the defendants claimed that they rejected all the presented charges. One of the witnesses, who had earlier claimed that he saw a beaten boy at the ROVD (District Interior Division), changed his evidence in court.

May 16, 2011 23:30

  • Rights defenders offer to sign-in in support of Oleg Orlov

    Human rights activists and public figures of Russia have issued a statement in defence of the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" Oleg Orlov, accused of slandering the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. Collection of signatures under the statement is underway on the Internet.

May 16, 2011 23:20

  • Pyatimat Hashagulgova and her children. Photo: angusht.com Issa Khashagulgov's wife appeals to European Parliament

    On May 12, Pyatimat Khashagulgova, a resident of the Ingush city of Kurabulak, whose husband Issa had been detained on suspicion of involvement in the terror act in Vladikavkaz, addressed Heidi Hautala, Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the European Parliament, asking for "assistance in protecting the rights and freedoms of her husband and family, provided for by international legal acts and the Declaration of Human Rights."

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Relatives of Chechen young men shocked by secret verdict

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