GORKI, Moscow region. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says it is good that the number of complaints about human rights violations in Russia has grown over the past year, which, in his view, signals that more Russians trust the human rights commissioner in resolving such problems.

Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin said at a meeting with Medvedev that the number of complaints about human rights abuses has grown 10.6% since last December.

"This deserves special analysis, but I would say off the cuff that this is related to the crisis," he said.

Most significant growth was recorded in the number of complaints about abuses of children's rights (by 46.7%), housing rights (over 42%) and labor rights (over 20%), he said.

Medvedev replied to this, "The fact that the overall number of complaints has grown is not bad at all. This signals not only growth in the number of problems, although this year is difficult and the observance of many rights, primarily the housing and social rights, is complicated in a crisis year, but this also shows that people pin certain hopes on these complaints."

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