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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.

23:46, 5 April 2007

Chechen lady's suit costs Russia 65,000 euro

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has found Russian authorities guilty of kidnapping and murdering a person in Chechnya.

22:24, 5 April 2007

Militaries who shot women in Chechnya are on trial

Investigators of the Military Office of Public Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping (UFG) in North Caucasus continue their enquiry into the incident that occurred on March 24 in the high-mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya.

22:18, 5 April 2007

Kadyrov's presidency taken ambiguously in Chechnya

Today, Ramzan Kadyrov has officially entered the post of the president of the Chechen Republic. Many people in Chechnya are positively assessing Kadyrov's activities in his position, however, there are many of those who stick to a different point of view.

22:00, 5 April 2007

Firemen inspect the "Educated Media" Foundation

Another regular inspection was made to the premises of the "Educated Media" Foundation headed by Manana Aslamazyan. The fact has become known to the "Echo Moskvy" Radio Station. This time the office of the Foundation, which is under special attention of law enforcement bodies, was inspected by firemen.

23:34, 4 April 2007

Shamba: Georgia getting ready for war on Abkhazia

The main threat to stability originates from Georgia and the top Georgian officials who hide their true aims behind peace-loving rhetoric. Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, made this statement.

23:31, 4 April 2007

Dudieva: gym of Beslan school should be left as it is

Susanna Dudieva, chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, thinks that neither a temple nor a mosque can replace the "live" evidence of the Beslan tragedy - the gym.

23:26, 4 April 2007

Doctors who mutilated a child face trial in Krasnodar

Today in Krasnodar, a preliminary hearing was completed on a medical malpractice case, which has resulted in arm amputation of newborn Sofia Kulivets.

22:10, 4 April 2007

Persons of attackers on the mosque in Dagestan remain unidentified

On March 30 an armed attack was made on the mosque "Yuzhnaya" (Southern) located in the outskirts of the capital of Dagestan, as a result of which several mosque visitors became victims.

22:00, 4 April 2007

Prosecutor demanded to send Ulman to colony for 23 years

The prosecutor has demanded to recognize all the defendants in the Ulman's case guilty and sentence them to deprivation of freedom for the term from 18 to 23 years.

23:48, 3 April 2007

Militiamen are accused of tortures in Kabardino-Balkaria

The Office of Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria has completed investigation into the criminal case in relation to employees of the Elborus District Interior Department ("ROVD") suspected of beating teenagers.

23:45, 3 April 2007

Prosecution has presented its arguments on Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case

On Tuesday, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don completed hearing evidences of the accusation party at the trial of interior officers Khudyakov and Arakcheev accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya on January 15, 2003.

23:10, 3 April 2007

Georgia insists on closing Russian check points in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

"Georgia has its position of principle in relation to Russia's joining the WTO, and it assumes legitimization of frontier-customs points and closure of illegal check points in the separatists' sections of Georgian-Russian border," Giorgi Arveladze, Minister of Economy of Georgia, has stated at a briefing upon termination of the sitting of Georgian government.

22:04, 3 April 2007

A number of resonant assassination attempts solved in Dagestan

Dagestan Prosecutor Igor Tkachov has announced today disclosure of the murder of Bitar Bitarov, prosecutor of the town of Buinaksk, committed on the 8th of last August, and attempts on Adilgirej Magomedtagirov (on August 8, 2006, and February 4, 2007).

22:00, 3 April 2007

Chechnya asks Putin to help to find three thousand lost persons

The authorities of Chechnya are preparing an application to the president of Russia with a request to help to find three thousand missing residents of the Republic.

23:38, 2 April 2007

Victims of Grozny-Moscow train explosion claim 4.6 million roubles

A moral and material damage compensation claim worth more than 4.6 million roubles was lodged today by the persons who were injured at the Grozny-Moscow train explosion in summer of 2005, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the defendants, has reported.

23:36, 2 April 2007

Ulman's group was denied additional psychological examination

The Court has rejected the petition of the defence of Eduard Ulman, who is accused of executing local residents in 2002 in the vicinity of the Chechen village of Dai whom he found in a car, to subject the defendants to an additional forensic psychological examination.

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