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23:14, 10 April 2007

Tver: natives of Chechnya sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment

Today, the Tver Regional Court has condemned two Chechnya natives to 13 years in jail each.

22:52, 10 April 2007

Blasters of Grozny-Moscow train sentenced to 18 and 19 years in jail

The Moscow Regional Court has sentenced the criminals who exploded in 2005 summer the Grozny-Moscow train to 18 an 19 years of deprivation of freedom, a Court's source reported. According to the Court representative, both defendants were found guilty under all the incriminated Articles of the Criminal Code (CC) of Russia.

22:00, 10 April 2007

MFA of Russia: States treat Abkhazia unequally with Georgia

The US Department of State has in fact hampered the unofficial meeting of the Abkhazian representative with the members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the eve of negotiations aimed to coordinate the text of a new resolution on Georgian-Abkhazian settlement.

23:44, 9 April 2007

Abkhazia refutes robbery of UN mission

The Galskiy District Office of the UN Mission to Abkhazia was not exposed to any plunders, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was informed today by Vadim Mysnik, Public Relations Officer of the Mission of UN Military Observers.

23:40, 9 April 2007

Investigation of criminal case against Centre "T" employees suspended in Kabardino-Balkaria

It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" from the sources at the Office of Public Prosecutor of the city of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, that the criminal case against Centre "T" under Article "Abuse of Office Powers with Use of Violence and Special Means" was suspended, since the personalities of the offenders had not been identified.

23:35, 9 April 2007

US Department of State: Azerbaijan gives no care to human rights

The US Department of State has disseminated a report on the situation with human rights and democracy in the world entitled "Support of Human Rights and Democracy in 2006." The report states that restrictions of mass media rights and prosecution of journalists took place in many countries, including Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Balkans.

22:19, 9 April 2007

Politkovskaya's son asks life imprisonment for his mother's killers

Ilya, journalist Anna Politkovskaya's son thinks that his mother's assassins deserve life imprisonment.

22:13, 9 April 2007

Search of Moscow banker's relatives lost in Chechnya was fruitless

So far, the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya have failed to identify the whereabouts of the brothers of Abubakar Arsamakov, president of the Moscow Industrial Bank, and a man who accompanied them, who all disappeared two months ago.

12:19, 8 April 2007

"Reporters without Borders" see no progress in investigating Politkovskaya's murder

The international organization "Reporters without Borders" has expressed its discontent with the course of investigation into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

22:40, 7 April 2007

UN mission plundered in Abkhazia

Today morning, an attack was made on the UN mission in the Galskiy District of Abkhazia.

22:20, 7 April 2007

Militiamen's rally against corruption in MIA to be held in Dagestan

On April 8, militiamen intend to hold a meeting in the central square of Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, in protest against corruption in law enforcement bodies.

22:10, 7 April 2007

Masis Mailyan is ready to stand for Nagorny Karabakh presidency

Mr. Masis Mailyan, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Nagorny Karabakh, is ready to run for the post of the president of the Nagorny-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

22:00, 7 April 2007

Ingushetian residents, detained by North-Ossetian militia, are suspected of smuggling gold

On March 29, at the exit check point of the city of Nazran, Ingush militiamen stopped a group of "UBOP" (Unit to Fight Organized Crime) workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia who tried to take out their two detainees from the territory of Ingushetia to Vladikavkaz.

22:16, 6 April 2007

NCO's lawyers give lectures on children's rights in Stavropol Territory

Lawyers of the Stavropol Regional Public Charitable Organization (SRPCO) "Faith, Hope, Love" continue to give lectures on the rights, duties and responsibilities of children at children's institutions, Anastasia Ponomaryova, PR specialist of the SRPCO "Faith, Hope, Love," has told today the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

22:11, 6 April 2007

Armenia is afraid that USA-Iran war will affect South Caucasian countries

Artashes Gegamyan, Chairman of the Party of "National Unity," has stated that Armenia should take today a clearer stand instead of being a mere observer in the American-Iranian opposition.

22:10, 6 April 2007

Picket in support of citizens' suffrage is held in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

The Government House of Karachaevo-Cherkessia is surrounded by power agents who have blocked the adjacent square from the picketers who came there from the city of Karachaevsk.

22:08, 6 April 2007

Criminal case of two earlier amnestied militants delivered to Chechnya's Supreme Court

The Investigatory Department of the Chief Administration of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation for the South Federal District (SFD) has completed the enquiry into the criminal case in relation to two Chechen separatists - Shirvani Gatsaev and Mokhdan Elgakaev.

22:05, 6 April 2007

Head of Abkhazian MFA: UN Security Council supports Georgia

Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, considers his ban to take part in the session of the UN Security Council as an evidence of the Councils biased position, since the Security Council has ignored the right of one of the parties in the conflict to be listened to.

23:53, 5 April 2007

Human rights defenders ask Bush to explain his meeting with the general accused of tortures in Chechnya

Today, the leading Russian human rights organizations have demanded from US president George Bush to give explanations concerning his meeting in the White House with the general accused by the public of mass violations of human rights in Chechnya.

23:50, 5 April 2007

Emir Hirullah killed in Chechnya, his militants searched

An operation is underway in the Vedenskiy District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search militants from the squad of Suleiman Imurzaev (Hirullah), killed in the morning on April 4 in the vicinity of the settlement of Egishbatoj.

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