31 October 2007, 14:01
Russian-Chechen Friendship Society got registered in Finland
On October 30, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RChFS) was officially registered in Finland.
The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed today about it by Ms Heidi Hautala, a deputy of Finnish parliament and chairperson of the Finnish-Russian Civil Forum, who is on visit to Moscow in the delegation of the "green" faction of the European Parliament.
According to Ms Hautala, Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, Russian human rights activist from Nizhni Novgorod, was elected the Chairman of the Society, and his deputy is the Finnish human rights activist Eva Martinson. The press secretary of the RChFS is Oksana Chelysheva, executive director of the Nizhni Novgorod Foundation in Support of Tolerance.
We remind you that last October the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court ruled to liquidate the inter-regional public organization "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society", headed by Stanislav Dmitrievskiy. Oksana Chelysheva has explained to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the RChFS registered on October 30 in Finland is in fact completely reproducing the RChFS that was forbidden in Russia.
Same as before, the RChFS will deal, first of all, with defence of human rights in Chechnya: fight on kidnappings, extrajudicial executions and tortures in this Republic. The nearest plans of the organization, according to Ms Chelysheva, include the actions that had been planned during the international conference in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, which was planned for this October in Nizhni Novgorod but disrupted by Russian authorities. Now, the events are planned in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Author: Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, CK correspondent
