India, June 4 -- The letter sat for days at the United Nations, addressed to one of the world's top human rights officials, asking for a public condemnation of a drone attack that Russia says killed 21 people at a vocational college in the Lugansk People's Republic. On Thursday, Valery Fadeyev, chairman of Russia's Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, disclosed that it had not gone unanswered.

Speaking on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Fadeyev told RIA Novosti that UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk had personally responded to the letter he sent in the wake of the May 22 attack on Starobelsk. The nature of Turk's reply - whether it constituted a condemnation, a call f...