Tanya Lokshina, Chair of DEMOS Center for Information and Research

DEMOS (www.demos-center.ru) is a Russian human rights think-tank whose work is focused on implementation of international human rights standards in Russia, especially the judgments of the European Court for human rights, situation in the conflict zones, reform of the law enforcement, and status of independent civic organizations.

Tanya Lokshina also works as a consultant on Chechnya and the Northern Caucasus for the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and runs a column on Chechnya at a prominent Russian web-resource POLIT.RU.

She's author of numerous articles and analytical essays in Russian and foreign media, members of the Board of editors of "Human Rights and Security Monitor" (former "Helsinki Monitor") Journal, and a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as a Civic Accomplishment" in 2006. Her book “The Imposition of a Fake Political Settlement in the Northern Caucasus. The 2003 Chechen Presidential Election” received some praise in Russia and throughout Europe.