This schedule of major events related to the conflict in Chechnya is continuously updated. Announcements for planned or expected events or any other suggestions are most welcome (e-mail: mail at watchdog.cz). December 6 New York (USA) PEN American Center, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, CUNY present "The Writer's Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya and Russia’s Forgotten War". The event will take place in Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street) at 19.00. The participants include Natalia Estemirova (Memorial's office in Grozny), Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor of The Nation), Musa Klebnikov (wife of American journalist Paul Klebnikov, who was murdered in Russia in 2004), Kati Marton (author and journalist), Dana Priest (Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Washington Post), David Remnick (editor of The New Yorker). More. December 7 Washington, DC (USA) The Jamestown Foundation will organize a debate entitled "Putin, Petroleum, Power and Patronage: The Dog Barks but the Caravan Moves On". The presenter is Professor Marshall Goldman (Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University), the discussant Lana Ekimoff (Director of Russian and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of Energy). The event will take place at 10.00-12.00 at the Jamestown Foundation (7th Floor Board Room, 1111 16th St. NW Washington, DC 20036). More. December 10 International Human Rights Day. December 18 Moscow (Russia) Moscow's Presnensky Court will consider on the merits of the claim lodged by 41 residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya to the Russian Ministry of Defence because of the June 2005 incident, in which one resident one killed and 11 other residents kidnapped. More. December 22 Kiev (Ukraine) Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Ukraine to meet Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. Compiled by Prague Watchdog. http://www.watchdog.cz/?action=coe&lang=1&year=2006&month=12
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