Dokument #1352479
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
In a telephone interview on 19 December
1996, the president of the Panorama Analytical Centre in Moscow, a
nongovernmental organization that conducts research on and provides
analyses of the sociological and the political situation in the
Russian Federation, provided the following information. The Tatars,
who are Moslems, have a considerable minority presence in Moscow,
and there are numerous Tatar cultural and political organizations
active there. The difficulties that the Tatars in Moscow encounter
are considerably less than those faced by the minorities from
Central Asia and the Caucasus who are ill-treated and poorly
protected by the police. The president could not provide
information on the situation of Tatars outside of Moscow.
For information on the concerns of Moslem
activists in Russia, including information on the treatment of
Moslems by the police, please consult the last paragraph of the
first column and the first two paragraphs of the second column of
page 35 of the attachment. For additional information on Moslems in
Russia, please consult the fourth to last paragraph of page 1005 of
Country Reports 1995, which is available at Regional
Documentation Centres. For additional information on the situation
of the Tatars, please consult the other attachment.
Additional information on the
above-mentioned topics could not be found among the sources
consulted by the DIRB.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of
additional sources consulted in researching this Information
Request.
Reference
Panorama Analytical Centre, Moscow. 19
December 1996. Telephone interview with president.
Attachments
School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London. 19 December 1996. Facsimile sent to the DIRB
by the director of the Central Asia Research Forum.
Transition: Events and Issues in the
Former Soviet Union and East-Central and Southeastern Europe
[Prague]. 29 December 1995. Vol. 1, No. 24. Dawn Jamison Nowacki.
"Little Danger of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Volga-Urals," pp.
33-36.
Additional Sources Consulted
Amnesty International Report.
Yearly.
CSCE Digest [Washington].
Monthly.
DIRB country file on Russia.
DIRB databases.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
(FBIS) Daily Reports.
Human Rights Watch World
Report. Yearly.
Journal of Muslim Minority
Affairs [Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England]. Bi-annually.
Minority Rights Group International
Report [London]. Irregular publication.
News from Helsinki Watch [New
York]. Monthly.
Transition [Prague].
Monthly.
Uncaptive Minds [New York].
Quarterly.
On-line search of media sources.
10 oral sources consulted did not
provide information on the requested topics.
Unsuccessful attempts to contact other
oral sources.