About the book: year / “These lines are being written in those days when the trial of the former Chechen field commander Akhmed Zakayev, accused of crimes committed during two Chechen wars, is taking place in London Human rights activists, members of the State Duma S.A. Kovalev and Yu.A. Rybakov and member of the human rights society “Memorial” A.M. Cherkasov arrived from Moscow as witnesses for the defense. Let’s leave aside the legal side of the matter: guilty or not. charges brought against him by Zakayev. Let us draw the reader's attention to the following circumstance: from the very beginning of the process, Russian human rights activists took the side of one of the leaders of the Chechen military-criminal regime, which for 10 years was in open confrontation with the Russian state. This choice is not accidental: in almost any conflict. , in which the Russian state is “involved,” Russian human rights activists take the side of the enemy—whether it is the leadership of gangster Ichkeria or scientists and journalists accused of espionage—citizens of the Russian Federation. Even in the seizure of the theater building on Dubrovka by Chechen terrorists, Russian human rights activists saw the guilt of the Russian authorities, and no less (and some - E.G. Bonner, A.P. Podrabinek, L.A. Ponomarev, A.Yu. Blinushov, E.N. Sannikova, N. Khramov - even greater) than the guilt of terrorists."Moscow Magazine, No. 1, 2004.