(Moscow, January 29) - Julij RYBAKOV, independent member of the State Duma, has joined both the Transnational Radical Party and Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA) for 1998. Mr. Rybakov already was member of Radical Party in 1992 and 1995. He is member of Egor Gaidar's Russia's Democratic Choice Party and is known as human rights activist. In particular, he was among so called Sergej Kovalev's group in Grozny, Chechnya, during the fierce fighting in 1995. Currently Julij Rybakov is a co-sponsor of the draft law on moratorium on executions, tabled in the State Duma and which has to be debated on February 11.