1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391303703316

Autore

Newport Maurice <1611-1687.>

Titolo

By the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, for the repairing the high-wayes and sewers, and for keeping clean of the streets [[electronic resource] ] : in, and about the city of London and Westminster, &c

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed for J. G[rismond] printer to the said Commissioners, 1662

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Soggetti

Roads - England

Sewage disposal in rivers, lakes, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Place of publication and printer's name from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

Arms 62; Steele notation: Reigne, bans Officer.

Dated and signed at end: Given at the office of his Majesties vvorkes in Scotland-Yard, the 17th day of July 1662. Mo. Newport [and 10 others].

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783623003321

Autore

Gilligan Emma <1967, >

Titolo

Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / / Emma Gilligan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-34849-5

1-134-34850-9

1-280-23159-9

9786610231591

0-203-34872-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

BASEES/RoutledgeCurzon series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 11

Classificazione

86.81

Disciplina

323/.092

B

Soggetti

Human rights - Russia (Federation)

Human rights - Soviet Union

Human rights workers - Russia (Federation)

Human rights workers - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Dissidentstvo -- The dissident nomenklatura -- The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee -- The Presidential Human Rights Commission -- The Chechen War 1994 - 1996 -- Troubling times.

Sommario/riassunto

Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles, was arrested by the KGB, tried, imprisoned and subjected to internal exile. After his release, he continued to work for human rights, eventually becoming chairman of the Soviet Human Rights Committee and chairman of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, in which positions he was extremely influential in framing human rights provisions in post-Communist Russia. He subsequently took President Yeltsin to task for