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18:19, 12 January 2006

IHF: Ingush residents tortured in custody in N Ossetia

The International Helsinki Federation is concerned about increasingly frequent cases of torture with respect to residents of Ingushetia.

19:08, 11 January 2006

Rebel surrenders in Chechnya

A member of illegal armed groups gives himself up to Chechen law enforcement agencies.

19:05, 11 January 2006

Two abducted in Abkhazia's Gal district

The republic's internal affairs minister says that this is done by Georgian special services to destabilise the situation in the bordering Gal district.

19:01, 11 January 2006

Seven Russian soldiers killed in one day in Chechnya

Seven Russian servicemen were killed and seven were wounded in Chechnya in 24 hours from 9 to 10 January.

16:03, 10 January 2006

Caucasus on fire

There are international terrorist network cells in all regions in the South federal district, according to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

15:44, 10 January 2006

Brothers abducted in Chechnya

Besides, a 16-year-old boy disappears from Avtury, Shali district.

17:50, 9 January 2006

Georgian police detain Russian peacekeepers commander

The car in which Colonel Kazantsev and three more people, including the wife of the commander, were driving was detained in the centre of Zugdidi.

17:47, 9 January 2006

Prisoner disappears from jail

Mr Rasul Kudayev, charged with taking part in the rebel attack on Nalchik, disappears from the temporary detention isolator in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

17:43, 9 January 2006

Federal column attacked in Chechnya

Two federal servicemen were killed and another five sustained wounds in the Kurchaloi district.

18:35, 8 January 2006

Two missing found dead

The bodies of two police officers are found, thought earlier to have gone missing on the first day of the operation for detention of rebels in Dagestan's Untsukul district.

18:33, 8 January 2006

Three Nalchik attack partakers killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

Two of the three rebels killed during today's special operation in the Lesken district may be foreign citizens.

20:34, 6 January 2006

Torture issue raised again in Georgia

The chairman of the Georgian Justice Ministry's Penalty Enforcement Department is accused of organising torture and killings of prisoners.

20:26, 6 January 2006

Covert move against opposition

Azerbaijan's education minister has ordered heads of national higher education institutions to fire teachers sympathising with the opposition, a source says.

20:24, 6 January 2006

'Federal forces were attacking a deserted base,' says expert

The officer reminds that a group of Dagestani policemen were suddenly ambushed near the tunnel several months ago.

15:38, 5 January 2006

Concerns about killings of journalists

Human rights defenders are concerned about the freedom of speech situation worldwide, in Russia, and the Caucasus.

15:36, 5 January 2006

Another Beslan attack partaker may be alive

There is information that it is Omar Sheikhulayev whom Beslan victims saw among the terrorists who captured the school in September 2004.

15:34, 5 January 2006

Police abuse may be serving as cover

Law enforcement agencies in Achkhoi-Martan, Chechnya, refuse to accept statements from relatives of abducted people.

14:51, 5 January 2006

Disappearing in Chechnya

Two girls go missing in the republic's Gudermes district.

14:49, 5 January 2006

Several killed in Chechnya

Several federal servicemen are killed and wounded in shootings and explosions in Chechnya's districts.

14:47, 5 January 2006

Two killed in Dagestan

Two riot police officers are killed in a skirmish with rebels in Dagestan, and several more are wounded.

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