This report was researched by Rachel Denber, Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, and Alexander Petrov, Deputy Director of the Human Rights Watch/Helsinki Moscow office in Moscow in May and June 1997. Ms. Denber wrote the report. It was edited by Michael McClintock and Dinah Pokempner. Invaluable research and technical assistance was provided by Malcolm Hawkes and Liuda Belova.
We are deeply grateful to Civic Assistance and especially to Svetlana Gannishkina, Equilibre, the UNHCR Refugee Reception Centre and the Open Society Institute's Forced Migration Project. We also thank the the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs (GUVD) for its cooperation and especially Mr. Vladimir Vershkov, Head of the GUVD's Department of Public Information and Public Relations.
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki gratefully acknowledges generous support from the Henry Jackson Foundation, the Moriah Fund and the Merck Fund for funding of work on Russia. This report is also available in Russian. Human Rights Watch/Helsinki expresses its gratitude to the J.M. Kaplan fund for making this translation possible.
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Its Helsinki division was established in 1978 to monitor and promote domestic and international compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. It is affiliated with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, which is based in Vienna, Austria. Holly Cartner is the executive director; Rachel Denber is the deputy director; Erika Dailey, Andreas Lommen, Maxine Marcus, Christopher Panico, and Diane Paul are research associates; Diederik Lohman is the Moscow office director, Alexander Petrov is the Assistant Moscow office director; John MacLeod is the Toshkent office director; Marie Struthers is the Dushanbe office director; and Liudmila Belova, Malcolm Hawkes, Emily Shaw, and Juliet Wilson are associates. Jonathan Fanton is the chair of the advisory committee and Peter Osnos and Alice Henkin are co-vice chairs.
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