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23:59, 27 January 2007

Committee for defence of Mr. Sadagatoglu's rights founded in Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has founded the Committee in defence of the rights of Samir Sadagatoglu, editor-in-chief of the "Sanat" newspaper.

23:58, 27 January 2007

British authorities count "Litvinenko's case" solved

The British authorities have reported that the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB officer, may be regarded cleared.

23:56, 27 January 2007

Sandro Girgvliani's family to hold a protest action in the capital of Georgia

Today, it is one year from the date of murder of Sandro Girgvliani, a servant of the Bank of Georgia.

23:52, 27 January 2007

A Chechnya lady-refugee kidnapped from a TRC in Ingushetia

Today in the afternoon (about 1:30 p.m. Moscow time), Ms. Chabieva, Malika Mikhailovna, born in 1969, a refugee from Chechnya, was kidnapped by unknown armed persons in masks from the Temporary Residence Centre (TRC), located in the village of Sleptsovskaya, Republic of Ingushetia, in the territory of "Mekhstroj."

23:49, 27 January 2007

Mass arrests of Gipsies practiced in Volgograd Region

In the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, Gypsies have been arrested on a mass basis since January 24.

23:31, 26 January 2007

The second witness in "Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case" stated that he had slandered his commander

On Friday, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court continued interrogation of prosecution witnesses in the case of two officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federations accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya.

23:18, 26 January 2007

A deported citizen of Georgia dies in Russia

Zurab Muzoshvili, a Georgian citizen, whom the authorities had intended to deport home, died in the reception-distribution centre of the city of Saratov, the Rustavi 2 TV Channel reported on Friday.

21:11, 26 January 2007

Human rights defenders: ethnic discrimination continues in the Krasnodar Territory

The 2006 report on violations of human rights in the Krasnodar Territory evidences a growth of pressure on civil activists and continuation of ethnic discrimination.

21:08, 26 January 2007

Kadyrov: presidency in Chechnya is not actual for me

Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the Chechen government (prime minister), has expressed his bewilderment with publications and utterances of certain politicians and experts about his soon inauguration as Chechnya president.

12:22, 26 January 2007

Court rejects the first of 42 suits of Chechnya residents to RF Defence Ministry

Today, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has defeated the first one out of the 42 claims of the residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).

23:23, 25 January 2007

Ingushetian court defeats a claim to the authorities who dispersed the picket in memory of Politkovskaya

The Nazran District Court of Ingushetia has rejected the claim of the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People demanding to qualify as illegal the actions of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran who prohibited to hold a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.

22:17, 25 January 2007

Criminal case opened against analyst of separatists' "Chechenpress" agency

A criminal case has been initiated in relation to Andrei Novikov, independent journalists from the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, and permanent author of materials in the web site "Chechenpress" of non-recognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, under point 1, Article 280 of RF Criminal Code, for "sending two electronic letters with "extremist," in the opinion of prosecution, materials to local newspapers."

22:15, 25 January 2007

Premier of Chechnya will take Murtazalieva under his wing

Ramzan Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, intends to insist on revision of criminal cases in relation of the Chechens who got to prison under fabricated, as he thinks, allegations.

23:14, 24 January 2007

PACE demands from Russia to run a parliamentary investigation of Politkovskaya's murder

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is going to call both Chambers of the Federal Assembly of Russia to hold an independent inquiry into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006.

23:09, 24 January 2007

Pavel Lyuzakov, author of "Kavkaz-Center," released

On January 19, having served his complete sentence of two years at a general security corrective colony of the Nyrob settlement in the Perm Territory, Pavel Lyuzakov, permanent author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web-site of Chechen separatists and the editor of the "Svobodnoe Slovo" (Free Word) newspaper of the Democratic Union, got liberty.

22:26, 24 January 2007

Advocate of Borozdinovskaya residents: judge refuses to request crime proofs

On January 25, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow will continue the process on the suit of 42 inhabitants of the village of Borozdinovskaya of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya towards the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).

22:20, 24 January 2007

Picket held in Moscow against the ban of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship"

In the evening of January 23, at Solovetskiy Boulder in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow, a picket was held in defence of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF), after the court ruling to liquidation it was confirmed yesterday by the Supreme Court of Russia.

22:16, 24 January 2007

"MK": Magomed Vakhaev will become president of Chechnya

On Saturday, January 20, the Kremlin held discussions of the candidature of a president of Chechnya, who will soon replace Alu Alkhanov.

22:46, 23 January 2007

Court chair challenge rejected at the trial of Khudyakov and Arakcheev

Today, at the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don), at the trial on the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, who are charged of murdering peaceful Chechens, Sergey Arakcheev has declared a challenge to the court.

22:43, 23 January 2007

EU diplomats were not let into the courtroom where the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" was banned

"Our consciousness before Russia that we respect is clean. We have done everything for the country to preserve its dignity, but its authorities have smashed us down the pavement," Oksana Chelysheva, deputy executive director of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF), gave her comments to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the today's decision of the RF Supreme Court to uphold the verdict of the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court to liquidate the organization.

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