Tiraspol, May 18. /Novosti Pridnestrovya/. The prominent Russian human rights activist, an expert of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, Oleg Ivannikov has arrived in Pridnestrovie. Human rights advocacy groups in Russia are regularly wondering the rights and interests observance of Russian citizens as well as compatriots in our republic. The main goal of the current visit is to collect and analyze all facts of PMR citizens’ rights and freedoms violation, including those related to the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian conflict dependence. Oleg Ivannikov will visit the PMR Foreign Ministry as well as the Supreme Council, his colleague – the public defender, the Public Chamber and other organizations and structures.
During the April meeting of PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky with Alexander Brod, the organization head, a member of the Presidential Council for the Civil Society development, the Pridnestrovian and the Moscow Bureau cooperation was discussed. At that time parties agreed to develop cooperation in the field of Russian citizens as well as compatriots, who are living in our republic rights protecting.
The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights is a Russian human rights advocacy group, founded in the year of 2002. It’s monitoring human rights violations in Russia and studying facts of xenophobia, racial harassment, antisemitism and religious persecution in the regions.
Annually the bureau publishes a final source book, which is sent to the RF President’s Administration, the General Prosecutor’s Office as well as the Justice Department, including heads of federation subjects.
