About the Committee

 

 

 

Organizations

  • All-Russian Civil Rights Congress
  • All Russian Movement For Human Rights (Lev Ponomarev, Director)
  • Andrei Sakharov Foundation (Elena Bonner, Chairman)
  • Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center (Yuri Samodurov)
  • Central Coordination Council of the Democratic Union (Valeria Novodvorskaya, Chairman)
  • Chita Human Rights Center
  • "Civil Assistance" committee to refugees (Svetlana Gannushkina)
  • Common Action Initiative (Russia)
    • International Helsinki Federation (Lyudmila M. Alexeyeva)
    • Andrei Sakharov Foundation (Elena Bonner)
    • All-Russia Movement 'For Human Rights' (Lev A. Ponomarev)
    • Memorial Human Rights Centre (O.P. Orlov)
    • International Assembly for Human Rights Protection (M.G. Arutyunov)
    • Public Committee "For Civil Rights" (A.V. Babushkin)
    • P. Bashkirov, human rights advocate
    • 'Ecology and Human Rights' Coalition (E.I. Chorny)
    • Civic Assistance Committee (S.A. Gannushkina)
    • 'Forum of Migrants Organizations' International Movement (L.I. Grafova)
    • Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre (Yuri V. Samodurov)
    • Movement against Violence (Sergei Sorokin)
    • Omsk Regional Human Rights Centre "Real Law" (Yu.Yu. Shadrin)
    • L.V. Vakhnina, human rights advocate
    • Committee for the Protection of Freedom of Conscience (G.P. Yakunin)
    • Confederation of Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic

      Ecology and Human Rights Coalition (Ernst Cherny, Director)

      "For Civil Rights" Foundation (Andrei Babushkin)

      Glasnost Defense Foundation (Alexei Simonov)

      Group of Human Rights of Minorities of St. Petersburg Union of Scientists (Alexandr Vinnikov)

      Human Rights Institute (Valentin Gefter, Director)

      International Foundation "Democracy" (Aleksandr Yakovlev, President)

      International Society for Human Rights (Germany)

      Memorial human rights organization (Sergey Kovalev, Chairman)

      Memorial International Society (Arseny Roginsky)

      Moscow Helsinki Group (Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Director)

      Public Committee in Defense of Freedom of Conscience (Rev. Gleb Yakunin)

      Sovest ("Conscience") rights group

      St. Petersburg All-Russian Movement For Human Rights (Sergei Khakhaev)

      St. Petersburg Anti-Nazi Centre (Yulii Rybakov)

      St. Petersburg "Civil Action" Organization (Arkadii Melikhov)

      St. Petersburg "Democratic Front" Organization (Igor Jordan)

      St. Petersburg Human Rights Organization Citizens' Watch (Yurii Vdovin)

      St. Petersburg Research and Information Centre Memorial (Dmitry Machinsky, Irina Flige, Tatiana Kosinova)

      Transbaikal Committee on Public and Political Support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky

      Individuals

  • Yuri Afanasyev, President of the Russian State Humanitarian University
  • Liya Akhedzhakova, honored actor
  • Oleg Basilashvili, honored actor, State Prize winner
  • Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet political prisoner, co-founder of Committee 2008: Free Choice
  • Mikhail Gasparov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, State Prize Winner
  • Vitaly Ginzburg, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences; Nobel Prize winner
  • Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Soviet political prisoner, poet
  • Daniil Granin, writer
  • Vladimir Kara-Murza, journalist
  • Garry Kasparov, United Civil Front, world chess champion
  • Sergey Kovalev, human rights activist and former political prisoner
  • Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet political prisoner
  • Grigory Pasko, journalist, prisoner of conscience
  • Leonid Romankov, Acting State Counselor of St. Petersburg
  • Vladimir Ryzhkov, Republican Party leader, State Duma deputy
  • Yuri Ryzhov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Boris Strugatsky, writer
  • Aleksandr Tkachenko, Director of the Russian PEN Center
  • Lyudmila Ulitskaya, writer
  • Eduard Uspensky, writer
  • Graham Watson, President of the European Parliament's ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) Group
  • Alexei Yablokov, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences; leader of "Green Russia" party, Center for Russian Environmental Policy
  • Sergei Yursky, honored actor, recipient of the Prize of the President of Russia