Russia: Amnesty International Scores Russian Human Rights Record.

Section: General News - Amnesty International in Russia has presented the organization's latest findings on the country's human rights record, and reports such violations as stifled dissent, racist attacks, substandard justice, and continued violence in the Caucasus.

Amnesty International says human rights are being relegated around the world to a back seat in the name of recovery from the current global economic crisis.

In Moscow, Amnesty's director for Europe and Central Asia, Nicola Duckworth, told reporters that open markets have not led to open societies, particularly in Russia and China.

"You cannot separate human rights out from the other sorts of …