>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:16:23 EST >Subject: Urgent - stop Russia lurching to dictatorship! > >RUSSIA INFO-LIST >from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - ISWoR >*********************************************************** > >STOP POLITICAL REPRESSION IN RUSSIA! > >HANDS OFF KIROV TRADE UNIONISTS! > >Leading labour activists Sergei Salnikov and Maksim Karpikov, of the >independent trade union Zaschita (Defense) in Kirov have now been arrested. >Their crime? Distributing leaflets asking people not to vote for Putin. > >Russia���s acting president is intensifying political repression in the run-up >to the elections on March 26 2000. In this "market democracy", Putin aims to >stamp out all dissent of any kind. Once re-elected, he will consolidate >authoritarian rule and embark on a draconian onslaught against the rights of >workers. > >Sergei Salnikov, editor of Workers Gazette, is also a deputy of the Kirov >Regional Parliament. On 23 March the courts will decide whether or not to >strip him of his parliamentary immunity and prosecute him. Karpikov, >organiser of the student branch of Zaschita, has already been fined and will >appeal. > >Putin must not be allowed to get away with it! This is an attack on labour, >an attack on basic democratic rights. A regime where it is illegal to vote >against the president is a dictatorship, pure and simple. > >Protest immediately, before it is too late! > > >Send your protest letters to: > >Vladimir Sergeenkov, >The Head Regional Administration >Russia, 610019 Kirov, >ul. Karla Libknekhta 69 >Fax: +7 (8332) 62-89-58 >E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Mikhail Mikheev, >Chairman of Kirov Regional Duma, >he Head Regional Administration >Russia, 610019 Kirov, >ul. Karla Libknekhta 69 > Fax: +7 (8332) 62-48-00 - against stripping Sergei Sal'nikov of his >immunity. > >Valery Kalinin, >Chairman of Kirov Regional Court, >Russia, 610000, Kirov >ul. Drelevskogo 20 >Fax +7 (8332) 62-92-74. - demanding to insure fairness in considering >this case. > >Please send us a copy of your letters to us at International Solidarity with >Workers in Russia too at email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(ISWoR wishes to thank Svetlana Baibodorova of Samara Zaschita for >information on the Kirov arrests.) >************************************************************* >************************************************************* >If you appreciate receiving this mail please distribute it to your friends and >post it to internet forums; if not, send a "no more" message to: >International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >*********************************************************** >ISWoR web-site - http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html >*********************************************************** > > > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
