**Updates IFEX alerts dated 12 and 10 April 1996** According to colleagues of murdered “Obshchaya gazeta” correspondent Nadezhda Chaikova, the office of the Prosecutor General of Russia has not opened an investigation into her death and the local Chechen village prosecutor who originally took up the case is unlikely to go further because of limited […]
**Updates IFEX alerts dated 12 and 10 April 1996**
According to colleagues of murdered “Obshchaya gazeta”
correspondent Nadezhda Chaikova, the office of the Prosecutor
General of Russia has not opened an investigation into her death
and the local Chechen village prosecutor who originally took up
the case is unlikely to go further because of limited resources.
Consequently, the editors of “Obshchaya gazeta” have mounted
their own investigation and currently have a reporter on the
scene checking various hypotheses of her murder. The newspaper’s
editors have refrained from making any allegations or speculating
as to the persons or groups responsible until more conclusive
evidence is uncovered.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
her murder and to announce publicly the results of their findings
Appeals To
His Excellency Boris Yeltsin
President
Moscow, Russia
Fax: +70 95 206 39 61/51 37/00 33
Government Press Office Fax: +70 95 230 24 08
or e-mail c/o Marat Guriev, Administration of President Yeltsin:
marat@guriev.niiros.msk.su
His Excellency Yuri Skuratov
Prosecutor General of Russia
Moscow, Russia
Fax: +70 95 292 88 48
the Russian diplomatic representative to your country
(in Canada)
Ambassador Alexander M. Belogonov
Embassy of the Russian Federation
285 Charlotte St.
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 8L5 Canada
Fax: +1 613 236 6342
(in the United States)
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Washington, DC
United States
Fax: +1 202 298 5735
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