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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.

22:40, 23 January 2007

MNS of Azerbaijan: customer of Dink's murder was never trained in the country

The International Herald Tribune newspaper asserts in the article on the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Turkey that Yasin Haial, the customer of the editor's murder, underwent training in Chechens' camps in Azerbaijan.

22:38, 23 January 2007

The Supreme Court has stopped the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship"

Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has upheld the decision of the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court on liquidation of the inter-regional public organization "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF).

22:35, 23 January 2007

Meeting of Moslems dispersed in Azerbaijan

On January 21, policemen forced a group of believers who wanted to honour the memory of shahids out of the Shahids' Alley in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

23:56, 22 January 2007

HRC "Memorial": refugees from Ingushetia are under threat of resettlement to North Ossetia at law

On December 26, 2006, the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) held a court session in the village of Oktiabrskoe on a civil suit of the administration of the Prigorodny District of the RNO-A and administration of the dwelling settlement Maiskiy of the RNO-A towards the residents of the refugees' settlement in Maiskiy (19 families).

23:32, 22 January 2007

Yu. Saveliev is ready to present his report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia

Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and a member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the causes and circumstances of the act of terror in Beslan, has confirmed his readiness to deliver his alternative report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia, should the deputies approve this decision.

22:33, 22 January 2007

Bush may bypass the Senate and appoint Hogland the ambassador to Armenia

US president George Bush has again offered Richard Hogland to the Senate as the would-be US ambassador to Armenia.

22:27, 22 January 2007

Russian society condemns the murder of Armenian journalist in Turkey

Representatives of Russian society have issued a joint statement condemning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the "Akos" Armenian newspaper.

22:15, 22 January 2007

Azerbaijani journalists: Hrant Dink's murder is a provocation against Turkey

While talking to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot," Mekhman Aliev, Director of the IA "Turan," has condemned the murder of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of an Armenian newspaper, and called it an anti-Turkey provocation.

22:29, 20 January 2007

Berezovskiy declares conditions of his interrogation on "Litvinenko's case"

Boris Berezovsky has explained to journalists, on what conditions he is ready to meet Russian inspectors in London to be interrogated on Litvinenko's case.

22:25, 20 January 2007

Azerbaijani law defenders threat to complain against Russia to the Council of Europe

Azerbaijani human rights activists can apply their complaint to the Council of Europe in connection with deportation of Azerbaijani citizens from Russia.

22:23, 20 January 2007

The Russian State Duma has passed a bill aimed to strengthen the fight against extremist editions in Dagestan

On January 19 the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted 389 versus 26 for approval in the first reading of the bill initiated by the National Assembly of Dagestan that entitles the public prosecutor to go to court for recognition of information materials to be extremist not only at the location of the organization that has published such materials, but also at the place of detection and distribution of them.

22:21, 20 January 2007

L. Dorogova: refusal to give out bodies of the militants perished on October 13, 2005, aggravates the situation in Kabardino-Balkaria

Advocate Larissa Dorogova, a Bar member of Kabardino-Balkaria, who is representing the interests of the relatives of those perished during the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, gave her comments in an interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the situation with the decision on the "issue of giving out of the bodies."

22:19, 20 January 2007

Eight persons already detained in Turkey on Hrant Dink's murder

Today, in the centre of Yerevan, in the Square named after Charles Aznavur, belonging to the "Moscow" movie theatre, an action was held in memory of Hrant Dink, a well-known public figure of Turkey, a journalist of the Armenian origin.

23:26, 19 January 2007

Editor of Armenian newspaper killed in Turkey

On January 19, at 3 p.m. local time, in front of the building of the editorial board of the Armenian weekly "Akos," published in Istanbul in the Turkish language, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the edition and an Armenian by origin, was shot dead by three headshots.

23:19, 19 January 2007

"Voice of Beslan": General Prosecutor's Office should take notice of Saveliev's report

The victims of the Beslan terror act who have addressed the parliament of North Ossetia with a request to hear at its sitting in the presence of the victims the alternative report of State Duma deputy Yuri Saveliev, hope that the conclusions of the report will be recognized by the investigation.

21:30, 19 January 2007

Azerbaijani Authorities grow hot over appeals to evict Russians out of the country

Because of Russia's enacting new migratory laws, which have restricted the right of foreigners to trade there, the OLC has declared: "We demand from Russian leaders to put an end to discrimination of our compatriots who live in their country, otherwise the OLC will undertake concrete steps to suspend the operation of the Russian embassy in Baku and to evict Russians from Azerbaijan."

21:26, 19 January 2007

Great Britain: Russia will hardly have Zakaev extradited

Russia will have more difficulties to achieve a reconsideration of requests on extradition of the Russians who were granted asylum in Great Britain.

21:23, 19 January 2007

All-Russian Human Rights Congress on situation in North Caucasus

On December 10, Moscow hosted the Second All-Russian Congress in Defence of Human Rights. The Congress adopted a great package of resolutions: Solidarity and Cooperation (What can we oppose to the war in North Caucasus?).

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