Introduction of alterations into the Criminal Code of the RF and of personal responsibility of leaders of law-enforcement authorities for results of investigations of human rights activists’ deaths: such are proposals with which lawyers and human rights activists intend to address to the Russian President. The address project was given publicity at the press-conference at the Independent Press Centre at Prechistenka at which Andrey Stolbunov, leader of IPO  «Spravedlivost» and Oksana Mikhalkina, leader of «Russian Legal Sevice»  took part. Besides, the participants at the vent expressed the opinion that human rights activists should have a special status.
The first to take was Andrey Stolbunov, chairman of IPO  «Spravedlivost». He suggested to stand and take a silence minute in the memory of human rights activists who died from the hands of bandits. The leader of «Spravedlivost» could not help mention the name of Andrey Kulagin, head of the organization’s regional department in Republic of Karelia whose body had been found on July 10 in a mine near Petrozavodsk. Stolbunov thanked mass media representatives for they had not disregarded the fact of the human rights activist’s death.