Subject: "Organization of the Illegal" Formed in Moscow
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 12 1999 - 14:22:16 EDT
>From the Weekly Bulletin of the Agency for Social Information in Moscow.
Translation by Nadia Peiro. Contact information for ASI: Tel: (7-095)
250-6160 Fax: 250-6156 E-mail: asi@aha.ru Web site: www.asi.org.ru
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REGISTRATION OF ALL VISITORS TO MOSCOW HAS INSTIGATED
CREATION OF THE "ORGANIZATION OF THE ILLEGAL" IN MOSCOW
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Moscow. According to the public communication center "Citizen," the mayor
of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov again insisted that the scheme for registration of
visitors to the city does not contradict Russian legislation. "All our
actions are in accordance with the law and the Constitution," he
emphasized. "What is happening in Moscow is what would happen in any
civilized country. Regarding the registration program itself, it is the
simplest under the present circumstances," noted the mayor. "If another
scheme is presented to us, then the city authorities will study it with
pleasure."
At the same time that the mayor was making these declarations, the mass
media was distributing an open letter by the "Organization of the Illegal
in Moscow". The letter particularly stresses that in the capital there are
around three million illegal inhabitants. "We are people who are
compelled, for different reasons, to live unregistered in Moscow and
without fault of our own. We are therefore deprived of our human rights.
We have amongst us people of different ages, sex, origins and nationality.
We have Doctors of Science and simple workers, painters and
poets, programmers and managers, businessmen and commercial stand
sellers," states the letter. "Our organization is for now placed on the
Internet, free from boundaries and registrations, where a person is
respected simply for the fact that he is a person!"
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