EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATION TO BESLAN (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) 30. AUGUST-3 SEPTEMBER 2010

Kadashevskaya Hotel Imperial Hotel European Union Delegation 26 Kadashevskaya nab. Mira Prosp., 19, Vladikavkaz 119017, Moscow 115035 Moscow , Russia North Ossetia (Alania) Republic, Kadashevskaya nab., 14/1 Tel: +7 495 287 87 10 362040, Russia Tel. (+7 495) 721 20 00 Fax: +7 495 287 87 11 E-mail: E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

MEPs EP Staff Accompanying members Heidi Hautala (Greens) - Chair Geoffrey Harris Head of the Eeva Heikkilä, assistant of Heidi of the Subcommittee on Human Human Rights Unit Hautala Rights Kristina Pärtelpoeg, Human Laima Liucija Andrikienė (EPP) Rights Unit Thijs Berman (S&D)

FINAL PROGRAMME

16h15 Arrival at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow

17h00 Transfer to the hotel Kadashevskaya, check in Venue: Kadashevskaya Hotel, 26 Kadashevskaya nab., Moscow

19h30 Working dinner with the EU delegation in Moscow and North Caucasus experts Venue: Restaurant Scandinavia, m. palashevsky per. 7 (tverskaya 19) Moscow Tuesday, 31 August 2010

8h30-9h45 Briefing at the EU delegation Venue: Kadashevskaya nab., 14/1

9h45 Transfer to the Khamovnichesky Court

10h30-12h30 Attending the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev Venue: Khamovnichesky Court, 119121, Moscow, 7th Rostovsky per, b.21, (Metro station “Kiyevskaya”)

12h30 Transfer to the hotel Kadashevskaya

13h00 Lunch with 2009 Sakharov Prize winners Venue: Restaurant Mamma Giovanna, Kadashevskaya nab. 26, Moscow (in the hotel)

16h00 Transfer to observe the "Marches of Dissent" (defence of their right to freedom of assembly, Article 31 of the Russian Constitution). Venue: Triumfalnaya Square in downtown Moscow

20h00 Transfer back to hotel Kadashevskaya Venue: 26 Kadashevskaya nab., Moscow

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Transportation and security in North Caucasus was provided by UNDSS through out the mission

07h30 Transfer from the hotel to the airport (Vnukovo)

10h20 Flight: Moscow-Vladikavkaz (flight was about 2h late)

15h00 Arrival in North Ossetia

16h00 Meeting with Prof. Stanislav Kesaev (Chair of the Parliamentary Investigatory Commission into Beslan Act of Terrorism) Venue: Vladikavkaz

17h00 Security briefing provided by the UNDSS Venue: UN premises

2 18h00 Meeting with Ms Ella Kesayeva (Voice of Beslan) and victims Venue: Beslan

20h00 Lighting of Candles in the school yard

22h00 Transfer to the hotel, check in Venue: Imperial Hotel

Thursday, 2 September 2010 - Trip to Ingushetia

08h00 – 09h00 Transfer from hotel Imperial in Vladikavkaz to Magas

09h00 – 10h00 Meeting with Mr. Djambulat Ozdoev, Ombudsman of Ingushetia Venue: in his office in Magas

10h00 – 10h15 Transfer to Nazran

10h15 – 10h50 Visit to Temporary Settlement “Angusht” in Nazran

11h00 – 13h00 Meeting with human rights defenders at MEMORIAL office in Ingushetia

13h30 – 14h15 Visit to Temporary Settlement “Erzi” in Nazran

14h40 – 17h00 Meeting with UNHCR in Vesta Office with NGOs concerned with rights of IDPs (Vesta, Memorial, DRC, Nizan, Russian Justice Initiative) Venue: Vesta office

17h30 Depart from Nazran to Beslan

19h00 Requiem Concert Venue: (Garden of the Beslan Cultural Centre)

21h00 Lighting of Candles in the school yard and at the cemetery

Transfer to Imperial hotel in Vladkavkaz

3 Friday, 3 September 2010

9h00 Meeting with the Mothers of Beslan

10h30 Visiting the new school

11h30 Church Service for the Dead at school number 1

13h05 Commemoration of the tragic events of 1-3 September 2004 in School No. 1 in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia

14h30-16h45 Flight: Vladikavkaz - Moscow

4 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS FOR THE DINNER ON MONDAY, 30 AUGUST 2010 AT 19.30 Restaurant Scandinavia m. palashevsky per. 7 (tverskaya 19) Moscow

 Heidi Hautala, Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights  Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights  Thijs Berman, Member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights  Geoffery Harris, Head of the Human Rights Unit  Kristina Pärtelpoeg, Human Rights Unit  Alexey Malashenko – Carnegie Endowment  Tanya Lokshina – Human Rights Watch  Svetlana Ganushkina, Memorial  Roemer LeMaitre - Legal Director of Russia Justice Initiative  Elena Milashina, Novaya Gazeta  Yuri Dzhibladze, founder and president of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights  Michael Webb - charge d’affaires, DHoD  Gavin Evans, Head Political Section EUD  Piet Blonde, Political Section EUD  Irina Dobrodeeva, Interpreter EUD Wednesday, 1 September 2010 Meeting with Prof. Stanislav Kesaev

Presence list

 Prof. Stanislav Kesaev, Chair of the Parliamentary Investigatory Commission into Beslan Act of Terrorism  Khetagurov Alan Aleksandrovich, Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation  Tiblilov Merab Ivanovich, International Relations Chairman's assistant of the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania  Sidaev Soslan Georgievich, Attaché, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the city of Vladikavkaz  Zangionov Arthur Naibovich, Assistant adviser to the Chairman of the Parliament of North Ossetia-Alania  Blonde Piet (EU Delegation in Moscow)  and EP delegation (see the program) Thursday, 2 September 2010 - Trip to Ingushetia Meeting with UNHCR in Vesta Office with NGOs concerned with rights of IDPs (Vesta, Memorial, DRC, Nizan, Russian Justice Initiative)

Presence list

 UNHCR Wojciech Trojan  MEMORIAL Bashir Akkilgov Timerlan Akiev Akhmed Barakhoev  DRC Magomed Malsagov  VESTA Leila Dzeitova Magomed Barakhoev  RUSSIAN JUSTICE INITIATIVE Arsen Sakalov  NIZAN Iton Ismailov  EU DELEGATION in Moscow Piet Blonde and  EP delegation (see the program)

* Aslan Kodzoev – Adviser to the President of Ingushetia (at that time) greeted the delegation at the end of this meeting.