Putin approved the return of Alekseeva to the HRC

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed with the Human Rights Council (HRC), who proposed to include the Russian human rights activist, head of the Moscow Helsinki group (MHG) Lyudmila Alekseeva. Under the appeal to the head of state, they left their signatures, in particular, the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Ella Pamfilova and the former Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

According to Interfax , a press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, answering the question of journalists about this appeal, said that "yes, it was arrived." “And the president gave consent to this,” he said.

Alekseeva herself called Putin’s decision "pleasant news." She learned about him from the journalists of the Russian News Service . In an interview with them, the 87-year-old human rights activist said that in the CRC she wants to "draw the attention of the Presidential Council to the practice of enrolling NPOs to foreign agents." “There are ugly things to do, I would like the members of the presidential council to pay attention to this,” she explained.

In a conversation with TASS, the head of the MHG noted that the Human Rights Council is one of the three "communication channels with the authorities" and "in the current difficult time should not be neglected."

Currently, 59 people, these are well -known human rights activists, public figures and journalists as part of the President, as part of the president. Alekseeva left him a few years ago, after which her was invited from time to time to meetings of the Council. In addition, the human rights activist was repeatedly offered to return, but she refused.

On the eve of May 18, Aleksseva held a meeting in Moscow with an assistant to US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. According to the head of the ICG, they discussed, among other things, the law "On foreign agents" and the bill on "undesirable organizations" considered by the State Duma. In the United States, they are concerned about the growth of anti -Americanism in Russian society, Alekseeva noted.