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80 Andreas Heinemann-Grüder30 Interview with Vladimir Nikolaevich Lysenko, Moscow, 6 December 2005.31 Jeronim Perovic, ‘The north caucasus on the brink’, International Relations andSecurity Network, ISN Case Studies (Zürich), Vol. 1, No. 8, 2006.32 ORB = Operational Investigative Bureau under the Chief Directorate of theMinistry of Interior for the Southern Federal District. On the above see HumanRights Watch, Widespread Torture in the Chechen Republic. Human RightsWatch Briefing Paper for the 37th Session of the UN Committee Against Torture,13 November 2006.33 Andrew Osborn, ‘Kremlin was complicit in Chechen murders’, The Independent,10 November 2006.34 Izvestia, 16 December 2006. Translated in Johnson’s Russia List, No. 282, 17December 2006.35 Leonid Sedov, ‘Map of hopes and fears – political sentiments of Russians: regionalcross-section’, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 11 December 2006, in Johnson’s RussiaList, No. 278, 12 December 2006 (a sum of over 100 per cent of the individualanswers resulted from the rounding up partial results).36 See B. N. Topornina, Konstitutsiia Rossiiskoi Federatsii. Nauchno-prakticheskieKommentarii (Moskva: 3rd edition, Iurist, 2003), pp. 510f.37 Interviews with Mansur A. Ajupov (8 December, 2005), Deputy of the StateDuma, Committee for National Affairs; Aleksandr V. Nikonov (8 December,2005), consultant to the State Duma Committee for National Affairs; SvetlanaSmirnova (7 December, 2005), deputy of the State Duma from Chuvashiya;Gennadii Oleynik (13 December, 2005), member of the Federation Council;Svetlana A. Bastanzhieva (12 December, 2005), Ministry of RegionalDevelopment.38 Zakon No. 3266–1 ‘Ob obrazovanii’, 10 June 1992.39 Zakon No. 5242-1 ‘O pravde grazdan RF na svobodu peredvizheniia’, 25 June 1993.40 An overview of minority rights legislation is provided by Doris Widra,‘Legislation of the Russian Federation Concerning Ethnic Minorities and itsShortcomings’, at: http://www.eawarn.ru/pub/Projects/TacisProjecdts/Widra.htm.41 http://www.legislationline.org/?jid = 42&less = false&tid = 143.42 Vladimir A. Kryazhkov, Status Korennykh Malochislennykh Narodov Rossii.Pravovye Akty, Moskva: Assotsiatsiia korennykh malochislennykh narodovsevera, sibiri i dal'nego vostoka Rossiiskoi Federatsii, 2005.43 Interview with Professor Vladimir Kryazhkov, Consultant at the ConstitutionalCourt of the Russian Federation, Moscow 12 December, 2005.44 Interview with Genadii Dmitrievich Oleinik, member of the Federation Council,Head of the Committee for Affairs of the Far North and Small Peoples?,Moscow, 13 December 2005.45 Zakon ‘O garantiyakh prav korennykh malochislennykh narodov RossiiskoiFederatsii’, 30 April 1999.46 Zakon ‘Ob obshikh principakh organizatsii obshin korennykh malochislennykhnarodov severa, Sibiri i dal'nego vostoka Rossiiskoi Federatsii’, 20 July 2000; alisting of rights of indigenous people is found in Kryazhkov, esp. pp. 19ff.47 Ibid., pp. 45–7.48 See in the following Aleksandr G. Osipov, Natsional'no-kul'turnaya avtonomiya:Idei, Resheniya, Instituty (Sankt Peterburg: Tsentr nezavisimykh sotsiologicheskikhissledovanii, 2004).49 Interview with Minister Mikhail Stolyarov, 7 December, 2005, Deputy Head ofthe Permanent Mission of Tatarstan in Moscow.50 Interview with A. I. Grigorev, Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission ofChuvashiya in Moscow, 8 December, 2005.51 Konstitutsiia Rossiiskoi Federatsii: Nauchno-prakticheskie Kommentarii, pp. 464f.