The Russian National Committee For the Termination of War and Establishing Peace in Chechen Republic was established in March of 2001. The main goal of the Committee is to hold the All-Russian campaign for that purpose. The founding of the Committee was declared at the All-Russian Extraordinary Congress for Human Rights held in Moscow in 20-21 January 2001.

Among the members of the Committee are the Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Kovalev, Boris Nadezhdin, Yury Rybakov, Sergey Jushenkov; the member of the Federal Council of the Russion Federation, the President of the Republic of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev; the members of the Russian PEN-centre well-known writers Victor Astafiev, Andrey Bitov, Arkady Vaksberg, Victor Erofeev, Felix Svedov, Alexander Tkachenko; the member of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation, the ambassador of the Russian Federation Yury Ryzhov; professor of philosophy Lev Gudkov; professor of history Igor Yakovenko; human rights activists: Elena Bonner, the head of the Sakharov's Foundation; Ruslan Badalov, the head of the Chechen National Committee for Salvation; Svetlana Ganushkina the head of the Committee of civil assistance: Dmitry Brodskiy, coordinator of the Committee for Antimilitary Activities; Valery Borshev, The Moscow Helsinki Group, Oleg Orlov, Chief of the Board of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial"; Lev. Ponomarev, Executive Director of the All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights"; Yury Samodurov, Director of the Public Centre and Museum named after Andrey Sakharov; Vyacheslav Pajdoverov, the Deputy of the State Assembly of the Republic of Mariy El and the Director of the Human Rights Centre of the Mariy El Republic.

In February and April of 2001 there was held a mass meeting in Moscow to support the official peace talks between Putin and Maskhadov. In March 29 the Russian National Committee For the Termination of War and Establishing Peace in Chechen Republic appealed to the President of Russia and Chechen Republic about immediate beginning of the official peace talks. To support this, there were started a widescale gathering of signatures under the appeal of Russian citizens.

The Russian National Committee for the Termination of War and Establishing Peace in Chechen Republic is leading public hearings "The war in a Chechen and Russia". In the Public Centre and Museum named after Andrey Sakharov was round table "The Social and Psychological consequences of war in Chechnya".

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