Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights asks that investigation into Shlosberg attack be overseen at highest level

2 September 2014 Source: HRO.org (info) Pskov region  Harassment of activists  On 1 September Mikhail Fedotov, chair of Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, sent a letter to Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, requesting that the criminal investigation into the attack on Lev Shlosberg, editor of the newspaper Pskovskaya guberniya and head of the local Pskov branch of the Yabloko party, be overseen by him personally. [Read more] Translated by Joanne Reynolds