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Statement of the YABLOKO faction in the State Duma

On the seizure of the "Open Society" Institute

November 10, 2003

The YABLOKO faction expresses its indignation with the bandit-like attack on the Moscow representation of the "Open Society" Institute. Seizure of the building of the institute by force by dozens of armed people is an extraordinary event which cannot be explained within the legal framework.

We consider the inaction of the law enforcement agencies inadmissible here. They took no effort to protect citizens attacked by armed people in the centre of the Russian capital.

We are certain that such a thing became possible owing to the increasingly arbitrary rule of the law enforcement agencies, whose representatives roughly interfere in the affairs of all the institutions of society, including political parties and civil organisations.

We call on everybody involved in decision-making in this area to facilitate the restoration of the rule of law, the return of documents and property and punishment of the guilty.

Head of the faction
Grigory A. Yavlinsky

 

See also:

Financier's Institute in Moscow Is Raided
By Kim Murphy, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2003

Statement of the YABLOKO faction in the State Duma

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