***Heads of Russian nonprofit organizations (NPOs) who are members of the Russian Public Chamber are due to give a news conference in Moscow at 12:00 p.m.

Text of report in English by Russian newspaper Kommersant website on 29 March A high-ranking member of the Russian Public Chamber says the government is trying to exert control over mass media, the Interfax new agency reported Thursday [29 March].

MOSCOW. Sept 17 (Interfax) - Hearings intended to analyze civil society's role in maintaining peace and accord in the North Caucasus have been held in Yessentuki at an initiative of the Public Chamber's commission for tolerance and freedom of speech and the State Duma's committee for ethnic affairs.

Kommersant 1. Mikhail Zygar et al report on the R

Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti Moscow, 25 December: A representative of the Nashi movement intends to raise at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation [recently created advisory body] the issue of the rise in xenophobic sentiments in Russia, the movement's press secretary, Ivan Mostovich, told RIA-Novosti on Sunday [25 December].