Anti-extremist legislation and enforcement as instruments used for arbitrary restriction of fundamental freedoms in Russia
On March 29, 2007 in Vienna, at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Assembly, Association and Expression , the SOVA Center organized a briefing dedicated to the situation with these basic freedoms in Russia. Alexander Verkhovsky, the director of SOVA Center, presented his report at the briefing. We are publishing the report. At the beginning of this decade, the Russian society associated extremism primarily with the ultra-nationalists and their illegal activities.