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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.

23:33, 2 April 2007

Oreshkin: Russia pays high to Chechnya for its imperial mentality

A couple of days are left till Ramzan Kadyrov's inauguration. Today, foreign newspapers write that this day will become the mourning day for all human rights activists in the world. In their opinion, a man involved in many crimes is becoming the official leader of Chechnya.

22:52, 2 April 2007

Shuttle van blown up in Azerbaijan

On April 1 in the morning, a bomb exploded in a shuttle van ("marshrutka") on the route from Udzhar to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. As a consequence, Ragim Askerov, 37, a resident of Hachmaz, who was carrying the bomb, was killed, and several passengers were wounded.

22:45, 2 April 2007

Head of Georgia's MIA again accuses Russia of bombarding Kodor

On March 11, when bombarding the upper section of Kodor Gorge, military helicopters used Russian-made controlled shells model "Ataka" (Attack), Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, told in his interview to the "Rustavi-2" TV Company.

22:35, 2 April 2007

Ulman's case: advocates ask for a new psychological examination of defendants

Ulman's advocate Roman Krzhechkovskiy insists on an additional psychological examination of the defendants. He has lodged a respective petition today to the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.

23:40, 31 March 2007

Speaker of Chechnya's parliament: PACE commissions have annoyed us to death

The leadership of Chechnya has categorically disapproved the initiative of the European Parliament to send a commission to the Chechen Republic for studying the situation in the region. This was declared by Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov.

23:17, 31 March 2007

Opposition newspaper journalist beaten in Kalmykia

On March 30, at 7 p.m., in the city of Elista (Kalmykia), at office of the Kalmyk Republic's Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), unknown persons attacked Vitaly Shulenin, editor of the "Leninskiy Puts" (Lenin's Way) opposition newspaper of the Kalmyk Republic's Branch (KRB) of the CPRF.

22:51, 31 March 2007

Erection of a mosque for Moslems of Krasnodar and Sochi is again debated in SFD

This week, the plenipotentiary envoy of the Russian president to the South Federal District (SFD) has discussed with Moslems of Krasnodar Territory the issue of building a mosque for the parishioners from Sochi and Krasnodar, where the authorities have been unable to allocate land for the mosque cannot for more than ten years.

22:37, 31 March 2007

Hunger strike of life prisoners continues in Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, a group of inmates of the Gobustan closed prison continue their hunger strike commenced on Monday, March 26.

22:25, 31 March 2007

Azerbaijan marks the Memory Day of the victims of Azerbaijanis' genocide

Today Azerbaijan marks the Memory Day of the victims of genocide against Azerbaijanis who perished during the events of March-April of 1918.

22:45, 30 March 2007

Bird's flu not confirmed in Krasnodar Territory

Poultry mortality cases registered in a number of districts of Krasnodar Territory have nothing to do with the bird's flu infection.

22:36, 30 March 2007

Former Pyatigorsk imam convicted but will remain at large

The Pyatigorsk City Court has re-qualified the offences committed by Anton (Abdullah) Stepanenko, former imam of Pyatigorsk mosque, and Andrei Grudin, another convict in the case, from Article 163 of the Criminal Code (CC) of the Russian Federation (extortion) to Article 330 (arbitrariness).

22:28, 30 March 2007

Felgengauer: Kodor could be swept by Russian helicopters only

At night of March 12, several villages of Kodor Gorge were bombarded by Russian helicopters, Paul Felgengauer, an independent military observer, asserts. The expert thinks that Abkhazia and Georgia have actually no aircrafts capable to fly in darkness.

22:23, 30 March 2007

Politkovskaya adjudged UNESCO award for freedom of speech

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who had covered events in Chechnya and was killed in Moscow last October, has been posthumously awarded with UNESCO Prize for freedom of press.

22:12, 30 March 2007

Interrogation of Berezovskiy on Litvinenko's case is over in London

In London, a meeting took place of entrepreneur Boris Berezovskiy with representatives of law enforcement bodies of Russia and Great Britain, where Mr. Berezovskiy gave evidence to Russian investigators on the murder case of Alexander Litvinenko, former Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) officer.

22:59, 29 March 2007

Report of Human Rights Watch on Guantanamo is partially devoted to R. Kudaev from Kabardino-Balkaria

Yesterday, the international organization Human Rights Watch published a report entitled "Guantanamo Stigma," dealing with the fate of former Guantanamo prisoners, among them - Rasul Kudaev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria.

22:56, 29 March 2007

In Krasnodar Territory, the court that considers tortures by "OMON" fighters asked to remove "extra" victims

At the process dealing with accusation of "OMON" (Special Militia) fighters of application of violence in the children's summer camp "Druzhba" (Friendship) in Sochi (Krasnodar Territory), the victims' party has lodged a petition on elimination of violations in the indictment.

22:54, 29 March 2007

Russia would not recognize South Ossetian alternative government

Russia is calling Tbilisi to give up its plans of legitimizing the alternative government in South Ossetia and to take a constructive stand concerning development of the negotiation process on Georgian-Ossetian settlement.

22:13, 29 March 2007

Instances of avian flue registered in Krasnodar Territory

Krasnodar Territory has introduced the quarantine regime because of avian (bird) flue.

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