On December 12, 2010 Civil Constitutional Forum took place in Moscow. About 500 members of civil society institutions from number of regions of Russia, leaders and activists of democratic organizations and representatives of Memorial participated in the Forum (http://www.memo.ru/2010/12/13/1312102.html).

During the Forum the following documents were adopted:

"Its time to save the country" (declaration),

"Exculpation of Lebedev and Khodorkovskiy is a matter of honor for Russian justice" (resolution).

All the documents except the statement "About the events on December 11, 2010" were adopted by collecting signatures of the Forum participants. Statement "About the events on December 11, 2010" was adopted by voting in the hall.

In few days all the documents will be placed at web-sites of a number of Russian civil institutions with signatures.

You can see the documents attached (in Russian).

December 14, 2010

For further information:

Human Rights Center Memorial, 127051, Russia, Moscow, Maly Karetny, 12

tel: +7 (495) 225-3118, fax: +7 (495) 624-2025, email: memhrc@memo.ru