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1 Council of Europe Conseil de l'europe European Union Union européenne Strasbourg, 30 June 2008 CommDH/NHRS(2008)19 Joint European Union Council of Europe Programme Setting up an active network of independent non judicial human rights structures ROUND TABLE OF RUSSIAN OMBUDSMEN LIST OF PARTICIPANTS St. Petersburg (Pushkin Conference Centre) 2-3 July 2008 co-organised by the Office of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights and the Saint Petersburg Centre for Humanities and Political Studies Strategy STRATEGY CENTER SAINT-PETERSBURG

2 I. HUMAN RIGHTS STRUCTURES FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION Office of the Commissioner for Human rights in the Russian Federation 47 Myasnitskaya Street RU Moscow Tel Fax: kifrol@gov.ru; press-sl@ropnet.ru Web site: REGIONAL OFFICES Altai Republic Vladimir LUKIN Natalia MIRZA Head of Administration Semen SHEFER Republic of Bashkortostan Republic of Dagestan Republic of Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkar Republic Republic of Kalmykia Fathlislam TUKUMBETOV Svetlana ALISULTANOVA Karim-Sultan KOKURHAEV Boris ZUMAKULOV Vladislav SAVISKO Karachay-Cherkess Republic Vladimir TITARENKO 2

3 Republic of Karelia 3 Vladimir PRUNTSEV Administration Chief Komi Republic Republik of Mordovia Republic of Tatarstan Udmurt Republic Chechen Republic Amur Oblast Arkhangelsk Oblast Astrakhan Oblast Bryansk Oblast Irkutsk Oblast Ludmila ZAVYALOVA Yury YASTREBTSEV Rashid VAGIZOV Mikhail KOKORIN Umar DZUMALIEV Chief of Administration Lubov KHASCHEVA Nadejda AKHRAMENKO Yury SALTYKOV Boris KOPYRNOV Ivan ZELENT

4 Kaliningrad Oblast 4 Irina VERSHININA Kaluga Oblast Kemerovo oblast Kursk Oblast Lipetsk oblast Moskow oblast Yury ZELNIKOV Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Novgorod Oblast Oryol Oblast Penza Oblast Rostov Oblast Nikolay VOLKOV Nikolay EFREMOV Nikolay ZAGNOYKO Alexander ZHAROV Vasiliy OLNEV Galina MATVEEVA Yury VASYUTIN Svetlana PINISHINA Anatoly KHARKOVSKY

5 Samara Oblast 5 Irina SKUPOVA Saratov Oblast Smolensk oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast Tver Oblast Volgograd Oblast Altai Krai Khabarovsk Krai Krasnodar Krai Nina LUKASHOVA Pavel PETROV Administration Office Chief Vyacheslav OSIN Tatyana MERZLYAKOVA Irina BLOKHINA Michael TARANTSOV Yury VISLOGUZOV Yury BEREZUTSKY Perm Krai Primorsky Krai Alexander KOZITSKIY Tatyana MARGOLINA Nikolay SHUGAY s Assistant

6 Stavropol Krai 6 Alexey SELYUKOV Nenets Autonomous Okrug Saint-Petersburg Boris DULNEV Svetlana YAKIMOVA Senior Consellor of Svetlana VASYUKOVA Consellor of Vadim SHIKHIN Coordinator s Assistant on Monitoring of Human Rights in Prison System in North-West Russia, Office of President Administration in North-West Russia District II. OTHER PARTICIPANTS RUSSIAN EXPERTS INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS Gennady BURBULIS Head of Law Monitoring Centre at Council of Federation of Russia Galina BARDIER Dr. of psychology Expert, St Petersburg Centre for Humanities and Political Studies Strategy Stefano VALENTI Project Officer in Italy Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples of the University of Padua, Via Martiri della Libertà, 2 IT PADOVA III. ORGANISERS ST PETERSBURG CENTRE OF HUMANITIES AND POLITICAL SCIENCE STRATEGY 25/14 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya Street RU ST PETERSBURG Tel Alexander SUNGUROV President Local Project Officer in the Russian Federation

7 Alexander NEZDYUROV Director for Development 7 Tatiana BARANDOVA Local Project assistant in the Russian Federation OFFICE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL OF EUROPE FR STRASBOURG Cedex Fax (0) commissioner@coe.int Web site: IV. INTERPRETERS Thomas HAMMARBERG Commissioner for Human Rights Markus JAEGER Deputy to the Director, Head of the National Human Rights Structures Unit Alexandre GUESSEL Deputy to the Director Delphine FREYMANN Project Manager National Human Rights Structures Unit Mamed MADAEV Adviser to the Commissioner Nadia SOKOLOVA Personal assistant to the Director Mr. Igor BEKZADIAN Ms Natalia MURINA

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