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Volume 5, Number 49
Friday, December 16, 2005
BIGOTRY MONITOR
A Weekly Human Rights Newsletter on Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and
Religious Persecution in the Former Communist World and Western Europe
EDITOR: CHARLES FENYVESI
(News and Editorial Policy within the sole discretion of the editor)
Published by UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
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SKINHEAD LEADER GETS SIX YEARS IN JAIL FOR INCITING RACIAL HATRED
LIGHT SENTENCES FOR FIVE SKINHEADS
FIVE TEENAGERS, SUSPECTED KILLERS OF PACIFIST STUDENT, ARRESTED
TWO SKINHEADS SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR KILLING 3 ARMENIANS
DUMA DEPUTY PRAISES SKINHEADS IN VIDEO
'NO NON-RUSSIANS NEED APPLY' ADS ON THE RISE
BELARUS JEWS CONCERNED OVER 'GROWING NEO-NAZI TENDENCIES'
* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, UNMET NEEDS OF THE HOUR * * *
PUTIN'S REVISION OF THE NGO BILL UNLIKELY TO RESOLVE CRISIS
Human Rights Groups Dissatisfied with Kremlin Concessions
After initiating legislation making it exceedingly difficult for
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to operate in Russia, on December 9
President Vladimir Putin sent a message to the Duma, the lower house of
parliament, recommending that a softening of the provisions of the draft
law that drew sharp protests from the NGOs and Western governments and
public opinion. The Putin concession emphasized by Reuters was the
deletion of a clause that required foreign NGOs to register with the
Russian state as Russian legal entities. Instead, Putin proposed they
could operate through Russian branches and would need only to inform the
authorities that they exist.
1. PUTIN INSISTS ON CONTROL
2. ALEKSEYEVA CALLS BILL 'CONCEPTUALLY WRONG'
3. WTO TALKS MAY FACE DEADLOCK
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