Autor: Lokshina Tanya Lokshina

The editor:Tanya Loskhina, MA, is chairperson of the human rights think-tank DEMOS – Center for Information and Research (http://demos-center.ru), and a former executive director of the Moscow Helsinki Group. She is also a researcher with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and a freelance journalist.The English-language editors:Ray Thomas, BA, MSc, Ph D, is a Research Fellow in Official Statistics at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Mary Mayer, BA, is a freelance translator from Russian and French living in the UK.