>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 08:36:42 EDT > > >RUSSIA INFO-LIST >from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - ISWoR >*********************************************************** >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] >*********************************************************** > >THIS IS VERY URGENT! > >Trade unionist's granddaughter threatened with murder! > >Dear all, > >Some weeks ago we reported to you on the case of Zaschita union co-chairman >and local councillor Aleksei Danilovich Rybalko, who was viciously beaten by >police for his trade union activities, then thrown unconcscious out of their >car: (http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/news/rybalko1.html). Medical >personnel were guilty of first neglecting him, then covering up facts that >incriminated the police. However Aleksei Rybalko has shown great courage in >pressing charges from hospital. Now the authorities have played their final >and most shocking card of all - they have threatened to kill his small >grand-daughter if he does not drop the case. Some activists are considering >whether the little girl should be evacuated. > >Comrades, it is not just the life of this little girl at stake here, although >that itself would be enormous enough. If the authorities, in service of big >business, are allowed to silence the most active trade union fighters in >Russia by threatening to kill their children, then the battle is already >lost. > >Putin hopes to force through the Russian parliament this month a draconian >new Labour Code which brings in the 56-hr week, 12-hr day, and strips unions >of their power. Already a mass campaign of resistance to this has started >(Oleg Shein reports that 500,000 leaflets have been distributed), and so the >authorities are responding by trying to quickly silence the most active >organisers of that resistance, such as Zaschita union. > >Below is a list of addresses and emails to which you can send urgent protest >letters now. But I urge you all to use any media contacts that you may have >among progressive media in your country to prevent such threats as the murder >of this little girl. As you know, recently there have been increasing calls >from big businessmen and right-wing politicians for Putin to establish a more >repressive rule. The head of the biggest bank in Russia, Pyotr Aven, for >example, recently expressed his desire to see a "Pinochet" - style regime. > >If we dont support our Russian brothers and sisters, this nightmare will >become a reality. >Lisa Taylor >International Solidarity with Workers in Russia >http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html > > > >Oleg Shein, co-Chair of Zaschita, and Konstantin Prasolov, co-chair of >Bashkortostan Zaschita union "Defense of Labor" ask you to send letters of >protest >to the following addresses: > >Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic >Bashkortostan >450025, Ufa, Lenin street 7. >Fax: +7 (3472) 234760 > >Ufa Department of Ministry of Internal Affairs of RB >Fax: +7 (3472)374040 > >Cabinet of Ministers of Republic Bashkortostan >450101, Ufa, Tukayeva street, 46, >Fax: +7 (3472) 505747 >Press service: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Press Secretary: Rustem Vakhitov > >Ministry of Foreign Relations > Russia, 450101, > Republic of Baskkortostan, > Ufa, Toukajev str.46 > Tel.: +7 (3472) 50-68-56 > Fax: +7 (3472) 50-68-70 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Office of Public Prosecutor of Ufa >Republic Bashkortostan. >450000, Ufa, Krupskaya street, 19 >Fax: +7 (3472) 229012 > >Bashkortostan Trade Mission in the USA >2740 Coulter Lane >Gillette, Wyoming 82716 > Tel.: (307) 682-4600 >Fax: (307) 687-2000 > >Representation of the Ministry of Foreign > Relations of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the > Austrian Republic > A-1040 Wien Argentinierstrasse 25-27 > Tel.: 43-1-505 26 68 > Fax: 43-1-505 83 46 > Telex: 131848 > >Please, send copies of your protests to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also to >the Russians at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >ps - If anyone knows the addresses of the official representatives of the >Bashkortostan Republic in their country apart from USA and Austria as listed >below, please send it in after confirming that the details are >correct..Finally if you are able to organise a protest action, even symbolic, >outside that office in your country, contact us immediately so that we can >link you up with others in your town.LT > >********************************************************** >The RUSSIA INFO-LIST >puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. > >If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or >want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]< >Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England >*********************************************************** > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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