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23:28, 26 April 2007

European Parliament scarifies Russia for abuse of human rights

Today, members of the EU Parliament have criticized the violations of human rights in Russia, Iran and China and demanded that the EU Government should raise this issue at cooperation negotiations in Moscow.

23:22, 26 April 2007

Residents of "Maiskiy" settlement, North Ossetia, can be forced out

The forced resettlers from the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, who inhabit the refugees' camp located in the suburb of "Maiskiy" settlement, were awarded with another warning.

22:39, 26 April 2007

Authorities of North Ossetia ignore problems of forced resettlers

On April 25, in Novy village of the Prigorodny District, North Ossetia, a meeting was to take place of forced resettlers with representatives of the FMS (Federal Migration Service) and employees of the passport and visa service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of North Ossetia (RNO)-Alania.

22:35, 26 April 2007

European Court for Human Rights gets tired with claims from North Caucasian Republics

Quite recently the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that Russia was a source of 20 percent of the cases currently under consideration at the European Court for Human Rights.

23:50, 25 April 2007

S. Gannushkina: Yeltsin had flexibility and force to end the war in Chechnya

Svetlana Gannushkina, member of the Council under the RF President for Promoting Development of Civil Society Institutes and Human Rights, thinks that Boris Yeltsin was a strong and flexible person.

23:47, 25 April 2007

Detainees beaten in Krasnodar SIZO

Militiamen have beaten inmates of the pre-trial detention facility (SIZO) No. 1 of the City of Krasnodar.

23:20, 25 April 2007

Leaders of Armenian community arrested in Georgia

On April 24, about 10:00 p.m. Moscow time, Nairi Iritsyan, member of the Presidium of the Democratic Alliance "United Dzhavakhk" and Sacrebulo (local parliament) Deputy, and Arthur Pogosyan, Alliance activist, were arrested in the Akhalkalakskiy District of Georgia, inhabited by Armenians.

23:04, 25 April 2007

Georgian ombudsman protests against eviction of Abkhazian refugees

The "people's defender" of Georgia has accused the patrol police of excess of power. Ombudsman Sozar Subari has declared that the police had no right to move out the Abkhazian refugees, who lived in the premises of the motor transport service in Vazisubani dwelling community.

23:00, 25 April 2007

SC to decide on resuming hearings of Khlebnikov's case

On May 16, the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the issue of resuming the hearings of the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

22:53, 24 April 2007

Estimate of the time of Yeltsin's rule is ambiguous in North Caucasus

The death of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin has not caused any special emotions in the residents of Chechnya. People feel no special grief for the deceased former Russian President.

22:50, 24 April 2007

"Novaya Gazeta": criminal case against Beslan power agents will be initiated

The "Novaya Gazeta" writes today that an important event has passed unnoticed. Last Friday, on April 20, the web site of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee placed a statement of the judge from the Leninskiy Court (the city of Vladikavkaz) to recognize the refusal to initiate a criminal case against the members of the operative staff and firemen of the Ministry for Emergencies of the Republic North Ossetia-Alania to be illegal.

22:48, 24 April 2007

Two Russian servicemen wounded in Chechnya

A car with federal soldiers got blown up by an unknown explosive in the Groznenskiy District of Chechnya. Two of them were wounded, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

22:10, 24 April 2007

Dagestan marks a year of shooting down the meeting in Dokuzparinskiy District

April 25 last year, a peaceful meeting was swept in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan. On that day about a thousand local residents were holding a meeting demanding resignation of Kerimkhan Abasov, head of the District Administration.

22:00, 24 April 2007

Chechen MIA knows nothing about murder of Doku Umarov's father

The employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya would not make any comments on the information about a possible murder of elderly Khamad Umarov, father of Doku Umarov, President of unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped about two years ago by the workers of power agencies.

23:40, 23 April 2007

Religious literature confiscated in Dagestan

On April 18, 2007, in "Sunna" shop, where mainly Islamic literature is sold, an unknown employee of the Leninskiy ROVD of Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, made a search and confiscation of goods.

23:30, 23 April 2007

Two militants killed in Dagestan

Today, about eight in the morning, a special operation was launched in Pervomaiskoye village of the Khasavyurt District, aimed at liquidation of the militants who hid in one of the houses, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has informed.

23:20, 23 April 2007

CE Commissioner Thomas Hammerberg cannot reach liquidation of ORB-2 in Chechnya

"Now, the official mass media and authorities are creating an image of stabilization process that is underway in Chechnya. It is not the case. Violations of human rights are systematic, and the existing power in many respects is based on suppressing people," Igor Shamshev, coordinator of the European Commission's Project "Counteraction to Violations of Human Rights in North Caucasus," has said today.

22:19, 23 April 2007

Georgia releases Abkhazian official Fridon Chakaberiya

Fridon Chakaberiya, head of the Abkhazian administration of Zemo Bargebi village of the Galskiy District, Abkhazia, has been released from custody.

22:07, 22 April 2007

Abkhazia denies kidnapping a resident of Galskiy District

Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Galskiy District Department of Internal Affairs, Abkhazia, has refuted the information of Georgian media about kidnapping on the night of April 21 of Gocha Gamisoniya, a resident of the District.

18:09, 22 April 2007

Committee to Protect Journalists condemns imprisonment of Fatullayev in Azerbaijan

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns today's imprisonment in Baku of Eynulla Fatullayev, editor of the independent Russian-language weekly Realny Azerbaijan and the Azeri-language daily Gundalik Azarbaycan.

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