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Moskalkova to monitor implementation of law on decriminalization of domestic violence
The High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatiana Moskalkova intends to follow up on the implementation of the law on decriminalization of domestic violence, which passed the second reading in the State Duma on Wednesday.
Commissioners to submit to Central Election Commission recommendations to improve electoral process
High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatiana Moskalkova claimed that Commissioners for Human Rights would submit a number of suggestions to improve the electoral process to the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation to have it further summarized and passed to the President of Russia.
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Pamfilova believes the number of human rights NGOs in Russia is small
High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova believes there is a lack of human rights NGOs in Russia.
Pamfilova helps Sentsov in confirming his Ukrainian citizenship
Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova helps director Oleg Sentsov, who had been detained on suspicion of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, confirm his Ukrainian citizenship.
Ella Pamfilova noted a negative tendency to "restrictive legislation"
25 March, Moscow. One of the principal negative tendencies in human rights in Russia is an incline to "restrictive legislation in public-sensitive spheres", Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova said on Wednesday at her press conference. According to her, at the same time progress in human rights has been observed in some spheres.
Pamfilova called murder of Nemtsov “a shot in Russia’s back”
Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova is shocked by the murder of the opposition member and former vice prime minister Boris Nemtsov.
Putin introduced draft law on exclusion of NGOs from foreign agents’ registry to State Duma
Moscow, 4 February — TASS. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin introduced a draft law on exclusion of NGOs from the foreign agents’ registry to the State Duma. The relevant information is given in the e-database of the lower chamber of the Parliament.
Ella Pamfilova took part in the morning programme at the Echo of Moscow
On 2 February, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova spoke on air of the Echo of Moscow radio station in the morning Spread programme. The Commissioner said she was ready to start investigating into the forced contracting with conscripts claimed by human rights organisations. However, these cases were by no means always connected with the military actions in Ukraine, Pamfilova said.