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The Russian National Committee “ For the termination of war and establishing peace in Chechen Republic” was established in the March of 2001. The main goal of the committee is holding the All-Russian campaign for the termination of war and establishing peace in Chechen Republic. The establishing of the committee was announced in the All-Russian Extraordinary Congress for Human Rights held in Moscow in 20-21 January 2001.
Among the members of the Committee are Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Kovalev, Boris Nadezhdin, Yury Rybakov, Sergey Jushenkov; the member of the Federal Council of the Russion Federation, the President of the Republic of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev; the members of the Russian PEN–centre well-known writers Victor Astafiev, Andrey Bitov, Arkady Vaksberg, Victor Erofeev, Felix Svedov, Alexander Tkachenko; the member of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, the ambassador of the Russian Federation Yriy Ryzhov; professor of philosophy Lev Gudkov; professor of historical science Igor Yakovenko; human rights activists: Elena Bonner, the head of the Sakharov’s Foundation; Ruslan Badalov, the head of the Chechen National Committee for Salvation; Valery Borshev, The Moscow Chelsinky Group, Dmitry Brodskiy, coordinator of the Committee for Antimilitary Activities; Oleg Orlov, Chief of the Board of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”; Lev. Ponomarev, Executive Director of the All-Russian Movement “For Human Rights”; Yury Samodurov, Director of the Public Centre and Museum named after Andrey Sakharov; Vyacheslav Pajdoverov, the Deputy of the State Assembly of the Republic of Mariy El and the Director of the Human Rights Centre of the Mariy El Republic.
In february and april of 2001 was held a mass meetings in Moscow in a support of the official peace talks between Putin and Maschadov. In 29 of March the Russian National Committee “ For the termination of war and establishing peace in Chechen Republic” appealed to the President of Russia and Chechen Republic about immediate beginning of the official peace talks. In a support of this, started a wide scale gathering of signatures under the appeal of the Russian citizens.
The Russian National Committee “ For the termination of war and establishing peace in Chechen Republic” is leading popular talks ‘The war in a Chechen and Russia”. In the Public Centre and Museum named after Andrey Sakharov was a “Round Table “ The Social and psychology consequences the war in Chechny” “.