Arne Ruth and Susanne Berger: Russia’s neglected human rights activists
Russian President Vladimir Putin toasts with ambassadors in the Alexander Hall after a ceremony of presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Nov. 19.
Last month French newspaper Le Monde featured an impassioned appeal by two human rights veterans - Aage Borchgrevink, a senior adviser to the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and Gregory Shvedov, a member of the Russian human rights organization Memorial and editor-in-chief of the Internet publication Kavkazsky Uzel (Caucasus Knot).
