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...support. The work carried out by NGOs may be, after all, the most important means of developing the rule of law in Russia. Both authors are fellows at the Sakharov Program on Human Rights at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Arkadiy Leybovskiy is a historian from Krasnodar. Kirill Babichenko is an attorney from Velikiy Novgorod and serves on the Commission of Human Rights in the Novgorod region...

Author: By Kirill Babichenko and Arkadiy Leybovskiy, S | Title: Challenges to Rights in Russia | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

Edik Kovolev, 28, is an art student who lives in Krasnodar, a midsize agricultural town in southern Russia. Each summer he goes to Moscow to earn money to pay for his education by drawing caricatures of people who stroll past his tiny fold-up chair tucked next to the sidewalk in the capital's busy Arbat Street. "I'm not going to vote," he declares, voicing an attitude that seems to be shared by many of Russia's young people. "Yeltsin will win anyway, so I don't think my vote would make a big difference." Also, like some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VOTERS' MANY VOICES: HARDLY ANY HAPPY CHOICES | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

Neighbors are not happy about the barnyard noises and smells coming from the back of Alexander Torzhenko's house on a busy street in the center of the south Russian city of Krasnodar. But the elderly manual laborer and his wife Alexandra are determined not to give up the pigs or the dozen ducks they keep in two ramshackle wood shacks on their 15-sq.-yd. plot. In fact, the couple seem to be settling in for a long siege. "Around here, they steal," says Torzhenko, so he has dug a cellar with concrete walls and a heavy metal trapdoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Unmerry Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

That is a bargain price for many Muscovites, who are flooding into the provinces to do their shopping. Annoyed at the sudden influx from neighboring regions, officials in Krasnodar set up customs posts on roads out of the territory and instructed local authorities to search visitors passing and to confiscate meat, butter and other scarce supplies. The government in Moscow ordered the draconian measures to cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Unmerry Christmas | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...party's rightward slide was signaled three weeks ago when Russian Communists chose Ivan Polozkov, the hard-line party boss of the southern Krasnodar region, as their standard bearer. The right-wing political coup appeared to have caught Russian party reformers by surprise. They had clearly underestimated the depth of resentment in local party organizations with everything from political change in Eastern Europe to schemes for converting military assembly lines to the production of consumer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union It's Lonely Up There | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

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