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Russian Federation: Questioning of human rights defender Mr Stanislav Dmitrievskyposted on: 2011/04/29

On 27 April 2011, human rights defender Mr Stanislav Dmitrievsky, head of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, a human rights organisation registered in Finland, was questioned by the Anti-Extremism Centre, a bureau of the General Department of Internal Affairs of Niznny Novgorod established to fight anti-extremism, in relation to a monograph published under his direction entitled “International tribunal of Chechnya. Legal prospects of initiating individual criminal proceedings against persons suspected of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the course of the military conflict in the Chechen Republic”. The monograph is in two volumes, comprising 1200 pages and it attempts to consolidate all the information available about human rights violations committed in Chechnya.

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Russia: Attack on the home of human rights defender Stanislav Dmitrievskyposted on: 2008/08/14

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of an attack on the home of human rights defender Stanislav Dmitrievsky. Stanislav Dmitrievsky is a consultant with the Nizhny Novgorod Foundation to Support Tolerance, and was previously Chairperson of its predecessor, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS), before it was closed in Russia by authorities. Stanislav Dmitrievsky was also the subject of a Front Line urgent action on 15 April 2008 and has received threats regularly since 2005.

Funds seizure concerns Russian human rights defendersposted on: 2006/01/22

12 september 2005

Prominent Russian human rights organisations including Memorial and The Moscow Helsinki Group, have collectively expressed their concern in a joint statement, over the seizure of funds by Russian tax authorities from the human rights organisation the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society

Russian Tax authorities (FTE) have demanded approximately 1,000,000 Roubles (approximately $35,000) in back taxes and fines for the alleged failure of the RCFS to pay tax on international grants. The FTE began forcefully withdrawing funds from the organization’s bank accounts on 26 August 2005, although the case is being appealed in arbitration court and no final decision has yet been made. Without these funds, which were raised through grants from the European Commission and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the organization will be forced to close.

Article 251 of the tax code of the Russian Federation states that tax free grants must be dedicated to “education, arts culture and environmental defence fields”. The deputy chief of tax inspection is arguing that the RCFS is using the subsidy for “publishing and diffusing publications”.

Human Rights Group The Society for Russian Chechen Friendship Targeted, january 2005posted on: 2005/05/15

Front Line is concerned by reports received about the targeting of staff of the Society for Russian Chechen Friendship (SRCF) in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation. The Society for Russian Chechen Friendship is an active human rights group that provides daily press releases on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic. Human rights defenders of the SRCF participated in the Front Line Platform in Dublin in 2003 and the organisation has received the 2004 'Recognition Award' from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. According to the information received, on January 20th 2005 agents of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) conducted a raid on the office of the SRCF, seizing the newspaper statute, registration documents, and other internal documents.