Latest update: 12/08/2009 

- Chechnya - Freedom of the press - human rights - NGOs - Russian politics - Vladimir Putin


Russian human rights activists under siege
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In this edition: After charity head Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband were found dead in Chechnya in yet another murder of an NGO worker in the conflict-torn region, Focus looks at the dangers of being a human rights activist in Russia.
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Focus is joined by guests Shaun Walker, a journalist in Grozny and in Moscow, and the Daily Telegraph's Moscow bureau chief, Andrew Osborn.

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REUTERS - The head of a charity and her husband, both kidnapped by a group of armed men in Russia's restive region of Chechnya, have been found dead, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.