Peak hour №1 10.10.1995 (1995)

Sergei Kovalev has been involved in the human rights movement since 1967. For five years, he published the first uncensored human rights information bulletin, "Chronicle of Current Events." He was arrested in 1974, spent seven years in the GULAG, and three years in exile in the Magadan Region.

Evgeny Kiselev congratulates Sergei Kovalev on the recent presentation of two prestigious awards in Strasbourg and Vienna for his human rights work.

Sergei Kovalev lists the slanderous rumors spread about him in Russia.

Talks about the work of the presidential commission on human rights, of which he is the chairman.

Expresses his point of view on the situation in Chechnya.

Together with an initiative group of human rights activists, Sergei Kovalev traveled to Chechnya with an appeal to stop the hostilities.

Talks about the actions of federal troops in Grozny.

About the civilians killed in the conflict zone, among whom were both Chechens and Russians.

Talks about the deliberate distortion of facts and events in some media, which leads to misunderstanding and rejection of the significance of the work carried out by the human rights group in Chechnya.

The issue of torture by both warring parties is raised.

Sergey Kovalev talks about the human rights situation in Russia.

In his opinion, the state educates people according to the "Asian principle", where the concept of collective law prevails over the individual.