| YABLOKO is going to perform public control over the population
census conducted in Russia from October 14 through October
25. According to mass media reports, as well as information
from web blogs and forums, the census is accompanied by mass-scale
violations of citizens’ rights.
The Russian Statistical Agency (Rosstat) concluded agreements
with Moscow universities so that to employ students as census
takers. However, students are made to work mandatory and are
freed from their classes during this period. Those who do
not agree to skip classes are threatened with expelling from
their universities. The students are made to work 12 hours
a day (from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) without any guarantees of a
wage pay. Moreover, they are not allowed to get their copies
of such labour contracts which is another violation of the
law.
According to mass media, in some Russian region census takers
demand from the citizens, in violation of the law “On the
All-Russia Census”, to provide their passport data. It also
turned out that census stations are headed mostly by the ruling
United Russia party members. A number of census stations are
even located in United Russia offices.
YABLOKO expresses its concern that the census data will be
used by the ruling party in its political goals.
YABLOKO has opened a special form at its web-site for collecting
data on violations. These data will be analysed and send to
the Rosstat and Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
See also:
Human
Rights
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