Albert Voskanjan, Stepanakert/Chankendi

Albert Voskanjan is the director of the „Center of civic initiatives“ in Nagornij Karabakh. At the same time he is coordinator of the International Working Group. We have been cooperating since 2000.

since 2000

Alla Jaroshinskaja, Moscow

For several years, Alla Jaroshinskaja was consultant to President Boris Jelzin. For her investigations and publications on Chernobyl she was awarded the alternative nobel prize in 1992.

I was organizer and as interpreter of Alla Jaroshinskaja during several lecture tours in Germany.

since 1992

Amnesty International

German section and Working group on Russia

I am in regular contact with the German section of Amnesty International. I support Amnesty with my translations, interpretations from Russian and with my contacts in the CIS.

www.amnesty.de

since 1999

Armenian and Azerbaijanian state commissions on missing persons

Being the co-chair of the “International Working Group for the Release of Prisoners and Hostages and the Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabakh Conflict” I am cooperating with these commissions.

since 1995

Avas Hasanov, chair of the „Society for Humanitarian Research“, Baku

Avas Hasanov is an Expert on refugees. Since 2000 we have been working on the issue of missing persons of the Karabakh-conflict. He is coordinator of the International Working Group.

since 1999

Barbara Gladysch, Mothers for Peace, Düsseldorf

For several years, Barbara Gladysch has been working for children from Belarus, who fell victim to the catastrophe of Chernobyl. With the beginning of the second war in Chechnya, Barbara has been organizing humanitarian programs for children from Chechnya, who fell victim to the violence of the war.

since 2001

Caritas Frankreich

Caritas France has been supporting the work of the „Working Group for the Release of Prisoners and Hostages and the Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabakh Conflict”, of which I am a co-chair, in 2006.

www.caritas.fr

since 2005

Christa Nickels, long-time chair of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee of the German Bundestag

I worked with Christa Nickels on several human rights cases. I organized several meetings from Russian human rights activists with Christa Nickels.

since 1990

DBU, German Foundation Ecology

On request by Russian environmental journalist Grigorij Pasko I have been in touch with DBU since 2005.

www.dbu.de

2005

German-Russian Exchange

The German–Russian Exchange with offices in Berlin and St. Petersburg and project partners in Moscow, Wolgograd, Nazran, Kiev, Minsk and Grodno supports Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian NGOs, human rights organizations, social projects and social facilities. The German- Russian Exchange works for the integration of Russian migrants in Berlin and organizes long-term visits of volunteers in German and Eastern European NGOs.

www.austausch.org 

1998

Society for German-Russian Integration, Mönchengladbach

The German-Russian Society for Integration works for the integration of emigrees from Russia, who are living in the Mönchengladbach area. The society wants to serve as a bridge between Germans and Russians.

http://www.driv-mg.de/

since 2004

Children of Chernobyl, Mönchengladbach e.V.

Being chairperson of this organization, I work for children from Belarus, who were victimized by the Chernobyl catastrophe. We organized holidays in Mönchengladbach for several hundred Belorussian children.

since 1990

Elisabeth Schroedter, MP

With Elisabeth Schroedter, Member of the European Parliament, I visited Moscow and Nasran (Ingushetia) in 1995.

www.elisabeth-schroedter.de/

Elisabeth Weber

Elisabeth Weber has been a long-time scientific assistant of the Green party in the German parliament, where she specializes on questions regarding Eastern Europe. Today Elisabeth is a board member of the Lew Kopelew Forum in Cologne.

since 1984

Refugee Council Mönchengladbach

This Mönchengladbach council was founded in 1991 by several representatives of the Catholic and Protestant churches, by charitable associations and individuals. Non-affiliated to parties, churches or city authorities, we provide consulting for refugees and refugee support for those who are living in municipal homes for temporary residents. Being in touch with municipal authorities and local politicians we try to help needy refugees.

I have been a member of the board since 2000.

http://www.fluechtlingsrat-mg.de/

since 1999

Peace Forum Mönchengladbach

Since 1991 I have been active in the Peace Forum Mönchengladbach. We first started in 1991 as an initiative under the name „No Blood for Oil“, and we organized activities against the war in Irak.

We organized several small-scale and larger activities against the wars in Irak, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libanon, Chechnya.

Highly successful were two demonstrations against the war in Irak in 2003 with more than 3000 people participating.

since 1991

Grigorij Pasko, Russian environmental journalist

Grigorij Pasko was imprisoned for more than 3 years for publicizing the dumping of liquid nuclear waste in the ocean by the Russian navy.

In December 2002 I organized a big advertisment in the newspaper „taz“ advocating the release of Pasko. In January 2003 I traveled with Pasko's wife, Galina Morosova, to various German cities. During this trip we gave interviews to newspapers and TV-stations, spoke with politicians and organizations about the imprisoned environmental journalist. During the Germany visit of Galina Grigorij was released on January 23rd, 2003.

Since Grigorij´s release from prison we have been working together. I organized several speaking engagements for Grigorij in Germany.

since 2002

Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin, Moscow, Tbilisi

In cooperation with the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation I had several projects on the topics of peace, human rights and ecology in the CIS. l did also cooperate with the offices of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation in Moscow and Tbilisi.

www.hbs.de

since 1995

Helmut Lippelt

Helmut Lippelt had been the long-time Foreign Policy Speaker of the Greens in the German parliament. Together with Helmut I was in Moscow, Georgia, Abchasia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

since 1996

Dr.Zaira Aminova

Since 2003 I have been cooperating with Zaira, who hails from Dagestan. Zaira is a poet and author of four books. Zaira is the web designer of this home page. We worked on several papers on the political, ecological and economic situation in the CIS. Zaira spent a lot of time for the professional design of this Internet site. Thank you, Zaira!

www.aminova.de

since 2003

Committee of the International Red Cross

As Co-Chair of the “International Working Group for the Release of Prisoners and Hostages and the Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabakh Conflict” I had contact with the ICRC offices in Baku, Yerevan and Stepana¬kert/Chankendi.

www.icrc.org

since 1995

Lew Kopelew Forum

As Co-Chair of the “International Working Group for the Release of Prisoners and Hostages and the Tracing of Missing Persons of the Karabakh Conflict” I had contact with the ICRC offices in Baku, Yerevan and Stepana¬kert/Chankendi.

I contribute to the Lew-Kopelew-Forum programs.

www.kopelew-forum.de

since 2002

Left Party

Since 2005 I have been a member of the Left Party. At the federal elections of 2005 I was the Left Party candidate of the electoral precinct of the city of Mönchengladbach. At present I am one of three co-chairs of the Left Party in Mönchengladbach.

www.linkspartei.de

since 2005

Marion-Dönhoff-Foundation

In 1988, Marion Countess Dönhoff established this foundation using her royalties and prize money awarded to her. In her will, she declared the foundation sole heir.

http://www.doenhoff-stiftung.de/

since 2002

Memorial, Human Rights Center, Moscow.

Since the early nineties I have been regularly visiting “Memorial”. I cooperated with "Memorial" in the area of refugees, in the Southern Caucasus region, in Chechnya.

I have been working as translator and interpreter for the network „Migration and Law“ and for its chairperson Svetlana Gannushkina.

http://www.memo.ru/

Natalja Mironowa

Natalja Mironova is an anti-nuclear power activist from Chelyabinsk / Ural. Natalja Mironova is living in an area that due to several nuclear accidents suffered almost as much as the Chernobyl area. As chairperson of the “Society for Nuclear Security” she is organizing humanitarian aid for victims of nuclear accidents. She is working for a future without nuclear energy.

www.nuclearpolicy.ru

since 1993

Paata Zakareishvili, expert on political science, Tbilisi

Paata Zakareishvili is an expert on the Georgian-Abchas conflict. During the Georgian-Abchas war Paata was responsible for tracing missing persons and the exchange of POWs from the Georgian side.

Since 1998 we have been cooperating on the issue of missing persons of the Karabakh-conflict.

since 1998

Svetlana Gannushkina

Svetlana Gannuschkina is a member of the human rights organization „Memorial“, where she is in charge of the refugee issue. Mrs Gannushkina is a member of the committee on human rights with the President of the Russian Federation. In 2003 she received the human rights award of the German section of Amnesty International. Svetlana is in charge of the network “Migration and Law”. This network has 56 offices all over Russia, 5 of them in Chechnya and Ingushetia, where refugees receive free consulting by the lawyers of “Migration and Law”.

I have been cooperating with Svetlana Gannuschkina since 1995. In 1997 we visited Armenian POWs in the labor camp of Gobustan (Azerbaijan). It was then that we succeeded in freeing an Armenian POW.

www.refugee.ru

Tamara Chikunova, Tashkent/Usbekistan

The son of Tamara Chikunova was sentenced to death and executed. After the death of her son Tamara founded the initiative „Mothers Against Torture and Death Penalty“. Tamara is fighting against torture and the death penalty in Uzbekistan and all over the world.

I worked with Tamara in 2004 and 2005 during several speaking engagements in Germany.

since 2005

Valentin Thurn

I edited the book „Nature - Our Class Enemy – the Ecological Catastrophe in Eastern Europe, (Focus publishing house, 1992).

www.thurn.org

Anfang der 90-er Jahre

WASG

Since 2005 I have been a member of the WASG, where I work in the Mönchengladbach section, the working group Ecology and Europe and the working group Eastern Europe.

www.w-asg.de

since 2005

Belorussian ensemble „Chabarok“

From 1991 – 2001 I organized concert tours of the Belorussian Folkloregroup „Chabarok“ all over Germany. The German audiences were thrilled with the freshness and livelinness of the Byelorussian ensemble.

http://www.chabarok.com/

Karine Minasjan

Karine Minasjan is the chairperson of the NGO „Human Rights Center for POWs, Hostages and Missing Persons“ in Yerevan (Armenia) and the Armenian coordinator of the International Working Group.

Since 2000, we have been cooperating on the issue of missing persons of the Karabakh-conflict.