Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) goes to Russia to attend the Markelov funeral and gather facts surrounding the murders of Markelov and Anastasia Baburova:
Fact-finding visit : Moscow double murder may have been linked to November attack on local newspaper editor
We should add one slight correction to RSF’s fact-finding report. Yevgenia Chirikova, a comrade of Mikhail [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Mikhail Beketov’
February 4, 2009
Reporters Without Borders: Markelov/Baburova Murder May Be Linked to Attack on Beketov
November 25, 2008
The Truth in Khimki (More on the Case of Mikhail Beketov)
Chtodelat News has already reported on the recent attacks on Russia social and labor activists. The most serious of these assaults was made on Mikhail Beketov, the editor-in-chief of Khimkinskaya Pravda. Beketov has bravely campaigned to save the Khimki Forest from destruction, and he has exposed the corruption of the local administration. Now he lies [...]
November 20, 2008
The Attacks on Russian Activists: Who Stands to Gain?
We here at Chtodelat News are pleased to announce the launch of an important new online resource for social activists in Russia and those of you who read Russian and are interested in keeping abreast of how the fight for civil, labor, environmental, housing and human rights is going in the world’s largest country. Dvizhenie—“(The) [...]
November 17, 2008
End the Terror Against Social Activists in Russia!
End the Terror Against Social Activists in Russia!
Public Statement on the Attacks against Social Activists
Recently, criminal attacks against the leaders of trade union and social movements have clearly increased. Among the latest such incidents, we should note the attacks against Carine Clément, a member of the working group and a leader of the Union of [...]
November 13, 2008
The War on Russian Activists Continues: Mikhail Beketov Beaten Half to Death
Khimki Oppositionist Severely Beaten and Near Death
Prominent Khimki oppositionist and a defender of the Khimki Forest is near death. [Mikhail] Beketov, the editor-in-chief of Khimkinskaya Pravda, and a harsh critic of the local authorities, was found beaten half to death in the courtyard of his home (in the village of Starbeevo, Khimki District) on the [...]
