MINELRES: Bigotry Monitor: Volume 5, Number 51 (content)

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Volume 5, Number 51
Friday, December 30, 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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U.S. TO PURSUE 'THE FREEDOM AGENDA' IN 2006, TOP DIPLOMAT SAYS

TWO NEW PROBES OF ON BESLAN SIEGE DISAGREE; VICTIMS' RELATIVES OUTRAGED

PUTIN AIDE QUITS, DECRIES LOSS OF FREEDOMS IN RUSSIA

AMERICAN MISSIONARIES FACE HARD TIMES IN SMALL-TOWN RUSSIA

KIEV COURT FINES NEWSPAPERS FOR REPORTING ON ANTISEMITISM

BELARUS EXPELS TWO CATHOLIC PRIESTS

HAGUE TRIBUNAL MAY SOON TRY FUGITIVE SERB LEADERS

IMMIGRANT VIOLENCE IN FRANCE SIMMERS
 

* * * QUOTE OF THE WEEK, RUSSIA'S WAR MENTALITY * * * 


OUTCRY OVER NGO BILL GOES ON
Protests Not Limited to Human Rights Activists 

Criticisms of Russia's draft law regulating non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) continued after the Duma, the lower house of
parliament, passed a revised version in its third and final reading on
December 23. On December 27, the upper house called the Federation
Council approved it by a vote of 153 to 1. President Vladimir Putin is
expected to sign the bill into law any day now.  

1. STATE DECLARED WAR ON CIVIC SOCIETY, SAYS HEAD OF JOURNALIST UNION

2. PUBLIC CHAMBER PROTESTS FLAWS IN NGO BILL

3. 'THE TIMES' EXPRESSES REGRET

4. NGO ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE BILL

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