Medvedev’s Top Rights Advisor Quits
30 Jul 2010
Agence France Presse
Ella Pamfilova, the head of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's human rights council, unexpectedly announced her resignation.
Pamfilova, the activist who headed the president's council on human rights and the development of civil society, said she would not disclose the reasons for her decision for the moment. She said: "I have handed in my resignation as chairperson of the council...It is my personal decision, no one has forced me, it has not come suddenly...I will not discuss the reasons now."
However, her announcement comes one day after Medvedev signed into a law a hugely controversial bill expanding the powers of the FSB security service, which activists have slammed as a throwback to the Soviet era.