According the Tirana office of the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), a vote taken on 18 October at the United Nations on a draft to suspend the consultative status of the TRP, an international nongovernmental organisation (NGO), represents a very important victory in the history of NGO participation in the United Nations.

23 UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) member states voted against the Russian proposition to suspend the TRP's general consultative status, 20 voted in favour, and nine states abstained, defeating the Russian resolution.

TRP representatives have dedicated this political victory to the memory of Antonio Russo, a Radical Radio reporter killed in Tbilisi, Georgia, three days before the ECOSOC vote. Russo had spent the last year in Tbilisi covering the Chechnya crisis for Radical Radio. He was preparing to leave Georgia and return to Italy at the time of his kidnapping and murder by unknown culprits. Russo's laptop computer, video camera and satellite phone are still missing.

Russo had documented evidence of atrocities committed by Russian troops in Chechnya and claimed to have been called as a Hague Tribunal (ICTY) witness of Serbian war crimes in Kosovo.