Month: June 2019

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Коротко о событиях в черкесском мире за неделю, тематические обзоры, авторские колонки, экспертные статьи 22 / 6 / 2019

Дело Мартина Кочесоко поставили на паузу

Редакция сайта общественной организации «Хабзэ» продолжает знакомить читателей с главными событиями, связанными с обвинением в хранении наркотиков нашего коллеги Мартина Кочесоко. Главной новостью последних дней стал перенос рассмотрения апелляции по мере пресечения с 20 на 24 июня. Read more →

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Toward a Russian Nuremberg — Lawyer Wants Moscow Court to Rule USSR was a Criminal State

Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 20 – A most interesting case is wending its way through the courts of Moscow: Igor Stepanov is challenging the Russian legal system to admit that the Soviet state was guilty of crimes and thus must be brought to justice, an effort that if it succeeds, Leonid Gozman says, will entail “truly historic” consequences.

            In a New Times commentary, the Moscow publicist says that the case, the last hearing of which occurred on Tuesday, is perhaps the most remarkable effort yet to move toward a Nuremberg trial of the Soviet leadership for its crimes, an effort that the Russian leadership has made possible by its own rewriting of history (newtimes.ru/articles/detail/181968). Read more →

Monday, June 17, 2019

Circassians Only One of Many Muslim ‘Compatriot’ Communities Moscow Doesn’t Want to Return

Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 16 – Russian law specifies that those living abroad whose ancestors came from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation, the so-called “compatriots,”  have the right of return and are to get Russian citizenship on an expedited basis, but in fact, the Putin regime wants only the Slavic, the young and the well-educated.

            For those who aren’t in those categories, who aren’t Slavic and Russian speaking, who aren’t young, and who aren’t well-educated and thus capable of making a contribution to the Russian economy, Moscow is anything but welcoming, human rights activists like Svetlana Gannushkina of Civic Support say (idelreal.org/a/29928574.html). Read more →

Monday, June 17, 2019

500 Russian Police have Been Charged Over Last Five Years for Falsifying Drug Arrests

Paul Goble

Staunton, June 16 – The Golunov case has highlighted a longtime problem with the Russian and earlier the Soviet criminal justice system: the widespread planting of drugs on opponents of the regime in order to charge them with possession or distribution of illegal substances rather than their real “crime,” dissent. Read more →

Коротко о событиях в черкесском мире за неделю, тематические обзоры, авторские 19 June, 2019

Требуем немедленно освободить Мартин Кочесоко! Read more →

Орхан Берсеико: Дежавью- история, близкая к истории Мартина Кочесоко

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