Logo of the Novaya Gazeta
There are signs of human rights progress in Russia. Editors of Novaya Gazeta, home to the reporter, Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered three years ago seem to feel confident that the killers are known.
The unsolved Politkovskaya murder has bedeviled the reputation of the Kremlin on human rights issues in recent years. Many have speculated on possible government involvement in the killing. If, in fact, progress is made in locating and prosecuting the actual murderers, Russia's image for civil order will be improved accordingly
In another development, Nashi, the government-backed student group that acts as a kind of youth activism front for the Kremlin leaders, is now coming under open criticism in a potentially consequential way. Once again it is the rule of law that itself is on trial. Crucial to the outcome is the integrity and resolve of the official investigative body, Pamfilova.
It would be good if these Russian human rights groups actually investigated
and represented the human rights of ethnic Russians like investigations of
massacres, internment in death camps and torture of ethnic Russians by
Chechen and international Islamic militants during the first war and period
afterwards of ethnic cleansing 250,000 Russians by state militias.
Mrs Politkovskaya was never interested in that as most of her info comes
from Chechen groups and NGO's financed by Soros and NED and there various
fronts and some of her personal stories of crimes are questionable.
Or the fact that crimes against Russians are non-existent as with the
exception that they can be connected to Russian authorities in some way.