PUBLIC DEBATES "DRUG PROBLEM: REPRESSION OR LEGALIZATION?"

Saturday, February 23, 1998

Andrey Sakharov Museum & Public Center

Zemljanoj Val 57, str. 6

(metro stations "Kurskaja" or "Chkalovskaja")

Opening debates at 12.00 AM, registration from 11.30 AM.

Organizers:

* Transnational Radical Party

* CORA - Radical Antiprohibitionist Coordination

* Human Rights Information Agency "Express Chronicle"

* Moscow Helsinki Group

Among speakers:

- Velerij BORSCEV, vice president of the Committee on public associations and religious organizations of the State Duma, president of the Human Rights Chamber of the Political Consultative Council by President of Russian Federation;

- Julij RYBAKOV, member of the Committee on legislation and judicial legal reform of the State Duma;

- Oleg ZYKOV, president of No To Drug and Alcohol Addiction Foundation;

- Vladimir CHARYKOV, chief of the department on illegal drug trafficing of Moscow police;

- Nikolaj KHRAMOV, coordinator of the Transnational Radical Party in Russia;

- Alexander PODRABINEK, director of the Express Chronicle;

- Lev PONOMAREV, co-president of Moscow Helsinki Group.

Moderator:

Lev LEVINSON, member of CORA, secretary of Human Rights Chamber.

Entrance is free, everybody's participation is welcomed.

For more information call: (095) 923-9127, 928-3278.