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11 November 2004
NEW BOOK ON HUMAN RIGHTS IMPLEMENTATION
IN RUSSIA: Anton Burkov, a lawyer with NGO Sutyajnik, has contributed his
research on "Detention of Mentally Ill Persons in the Russian Federation under
Article 5 of the ECHR" to the book "The Implementation of the European
Convention on Human Rights in Russia: Philosophical, Legal, and Empirical
Studies" (= Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics & Society, Vol. 1).
 Edited by Andreas Umland
Published by Ibidem Publishers Stuttgart,
http://www.ibidem-verlag.de/r1l.html
ISBN 3-89821-387-0, Paperback, 228 pp., 24.90 Euro.
In 1996, the Russian Federation became a member of the
Council of Europe. Two years later, the Russian parliament ratified the
Council's major document, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). These
Russian- and English-language papers were presented at a conference at
Yekaterinburg in spring 2001. The collection constitutes a snapshot of Russian
and Western approaches to human rights protection at a moment when Russia was
going through a first phase of adaptation of the political system created by
Boris Yeltsin to the new modes of state-society relations introduced by Vladimir
Putin.
Contents:
Sergey Alexeyev on human rights and Modernity (in Russian);
Rainer Arnold on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (in English); Valery
Mikhailenko on ethnic separatism (in Russian); Julia Kharlamova on the
impossibility of an ECHR-implementation in Russia (in Russian); Yekaterina
Khodzhayeva on human rights discourses in Tatarstans mass media (in Russian);
Anatoly Azarov on the Russians' lack of knowledge about the ECHR (in Russian);
Manja Hussner on the incorporation of international treaties into Russian law
(in English); Marat Salikov on the Constitutional Court (in Russian); Anton
Burkov on the detention of mentally ill persons (in English); Igor Shirmanov on
ambiguities in Russian legal norms (in Russian); Olga Selikhova on human rights
issues in the regions (in Russian); Olga Aleksenko on the Human Rights
Commission of Rostov-on-the-Don (in Russian); Yelena Goncharova on the right to
a fair trial (in Russian); Tatyana Gladkova on the Sverdlovsk Oblast Ombudsman
(in Russian); Andrey Lyamzin on Yekaterinbur's detention system (in Russian);
Andreas Umland with Oxana Stouppo on Western policies towards Russia (in
Russian); Andreas Umland on prospects of ECHR-implementation under Putin (in
English).
The collection's full list of contents may be found at:
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The book can be bought via the WWW at:
http://www.buchhandel.de/index.html?http://www.buchhandel.de/vlb/vlb.cgi?T=1065033728&ID=0218x5033711x31069x-213&fullsearch=isbn=3932602005&qstring=T1=(is=3932602005*)&subcount=0&subsource=suche&type=voll&artnr=3-89821-387-0
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Temporary mailing address until 10th December 2004:
St. Antony's College, GB-Oxford OX2 6JF, United Kingdom;
tel.: +44-(0)1865-727670; fax: +44-(0)1865-554465 (for Umland).
Permanent home address:
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