October 19, 2010 By Grigory Pasko

Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Human Rights Straw Men

President of the RF Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Mikhail Fedotov as his advisor and chairman of the council under the head of state for contributing to the development of institutions of civil society and for human rights. As is known, the former advisor, Ella Pamfilova, left this post of her own desire on 30 July of this year. Later in commentaries she complained that she had simply gotten tired in the course of several years of enduring the endless baiting on the part of members of the ruling party «United Russia», activists of youth movements and certain representatives of the Kremlin. Meanwhile an unnamed “source in the Kremlin” was reporting to the mass information media that Ella Alexandrovna had in actuality gotten tired of the annoying requests of democrats and human rights advocates.

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