Debate - Opinion in English, Russia and Baltic States

Search for article or name


Back to Toni Schönfelders homepage

Toni Schönfelder A lifetime of innovation

Web library-Bookmarks, My favorites

Debate - Opinion in English
Russia and Baltic States



Tillbaka till Tonis hemsida

Mina favoritlänkar, kolla in

Debattartiklar Ryssland

TaxFree handelns vara och icke vara

Tillägnad bussbranschen av Toni Schönfelder oberoende och fri debattör

Debatt artiklar av Harald Rosén (Det gäller flyg)

Artiklar som du bara måste läsa,Vakna upp i Sverige!

Toni Schönfelder
A lifetime of innovation



Verschiedenes in Deutsch

Toni Schönfelder
A lifetime of innovation

 
 
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been posthumously awarded a medal from Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin on Saturday, in the run-up to the International Human Rights Day.  
 
Politkovskaya, a Novaya Gazeta commentator, was shot and killed in the lobby of her apartment building in October.  
 
At a request by Politkovskayas relatives and the Novaya Gazeta editorial staff, the newspapers editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, received the medal for Politkovskaya. He said in a brief speech that over 40 criminal cases were opened following Politkovskayas articles.  
 
"More efficient measures should be taken so that journalists dissenting with the governments position can work freely," Lukin said at the ceremony.  
 
Among those awarded were also Boris Trefilov, the director of the Kemerovo regional library for the visually impaired, who is blind himself, and four flight attendants (one of them posthumously) from an Airbus A310 of Siberian Airlines, which crashed after landing at the Irkutsk airport in July. There were 203 people on board the plane, and 124 of them died. The flight attendants helped rescue the rest of the passengers at the risk of their own lives.  
 
Another recipient was Margarita Slezova, an instructor at an orphanage in Kondopoga in the republic of Karelia, whose son was killed in an ethnically motivated riot in August. Slezova, however, publicly called for a truce at a rally following the tragic events.  
 
A number of prominent political and public figures took part in the ceremony, among them Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Burns, Yabloko party leader Grigory Yavlinsky, Moscow Helsinki Group Chair Lyudmila Alexeyeva, State Duma deputy Oleg Smolin, and others.  
 
Yavlinsky said at the ceremony that it was difficult to defend human rights in Russia, because "there is a lack of independent courts, an independent parliament, and independent and politically influential media outlets."  
 
"It is extremely difficult to defend human rights. As one human rights activist put it, it is just like swimming in hydrochloric acid against the tide," Yavlinsky said. International Human Rights day has been observed on December 10 since 1948, when the UN General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  
 
http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2006-278-24.cfm  
 
 

Advertising about Spain
All kind of information about Spain in my own web page http://www.spaininformation.org

Fair use notice

The Toni Schönfelder Newsletter and website contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorised by the copyright owner. The material is being made available for purposes of education and discussion in order to better understand the complex nature of corruption in today's world. I believe this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in relevant national laws.

The material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed an interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Toni Schönfelder cannot guarantee that the information contained in the Corruption News service is complete and correct or be liable for any loss incurred as a result of its use. Nor can Toni Schönfelder be responsible for any subsequent use of the material.


Denna sida är producerad av Toni Schönfelder. Avsändaren har inget ansvar för innehållet i sidor som är länkade -- allt material som finns i egen producerade sidorna får användas fritt och utan kostnad.

Esta página ha sido realizada por el Sr. D. Toni Schönfelder.Los realizadores de la página no se hacen responsables del contenido de las páginas enlazadas a la presente. Toda la información existente en las páginas de realización propia pueden ser utilizadas libremente y sin ningún tipo de coste.

This page has been produced by Mr Toni Schönfelder. The sender does not take any responsibility for the contents of the linked pages. The whole material in the own produced page can be used free of charge.