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10:56, 19 December 2005

Freedom of speech research figures given for Georgia

The Georgian NGO Association of Young Lawyers claims that freedom of speech has been restricted in the country since the Rose Revolution.

13:23, 16 December 2005

Security at risk for Nagorno-Karabakh - newspaper editor

12:12, 16 December 2005

US Congress demands that Russia amend new legislation on NGO

US Congress passes a resolution with a demand that the government of Russia should withdraw or modify a bill on nongovernmental organisations.

10:44, 16 December 2005

Freedom of speech down since Rose Revolution

The nongovernmental organisation Association of Young Lawyers studies the condition of the Georgian media.

17:39, 15 December 2005

One killed in Dagestan

An interior troops serviceman is killed in a skirmish with a group of rebels in Dagestan's Untsukul district.

17:25, 15 December 2005

Beslan victim, N Ossetia's emergencies chief give contradictory evidence

There was nobody alive in the school gymnasium by the moment the fire began there, according to Mr Boris Dzgoyev, an official, but an eyewitness disagrees.

14:30, 14 December 2005

Refugees protest against relocation

Spontaneous public meetings are under way in a community of Ingush refugees in Maiskii, Prigorodnyi district, North Ossetia.

13:09, 14 December 2005

NGO concerned over illegal policing measures

A Georgian NGO expresses its concern in connection with increasingly frequent facts of killing of criminals by law enforcement agencies.

13:59, 13 December 2005

Commissioner criticises Beslan school security

Mr Alexander Torshin, head of the federal parliamentary commission for an investigation into the Beslan terrorist act, says that the school was guarded too poorly.

13:56, 13 December 2005

Maskhadov's relatives address world community

The relatives of the late Ichkeria leader ask the world community to demand that Russia give out his body for burial.

13:53, 13 December 2005

Victims resentful of incompliance

The Beslan Mothers Committee files two petitions for having senior officials come to give evidence in the Kulayev case.

12:05, 13 December 2005

French doctors helping Beslan children

A group of French doctors from Dijon in Burgundy come home from their trip to North Ossetia's Beslan.

12:03, 13 December 2005

Police officers beaten in Dagestan

An attack on police officers is carried out during an ID check in Khasavyurt, Dagestan.

10:48, 12 December 2005

Family attacked in Abkhazia's Gal district

Unknown persons fire automatic weapons at the house of an Abkhaz family in the Gal district.

20:06, 9 December 2005

Putin suggests tougher control, expert thinks

President Vladimir Putin of Russia forwards his resolution on the bill on nongovernmental organisations to Russian Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov.

19:18, 8 December 2005

Six wounded in Chechnya

Six riot police officers are wounded in Grozny under so far unclear circumstances.

19:07, 8 December 2005

Speaker's pledge questioned

The newspaper Alia publishes a list of the most apparent human rights violations in Georgia's provinces.

19:04, 8 December 2005

Nine wounded in Ingushetia

Nine police officers sustain gunshot wounds and injuries as a result of an attack by unidentified persons.

22:48, 7 December 2005

Two killed, two wounded in Ingushetia

Two rebels are killed and a police officer and a woman are wounded during a special operation in the republic.

21:15, 7 December 2005

Bomb wounds 10-year-old in Chechnya

A bomb disguised as a toy exploded while a ten-year-old boy was playing with it having found it in the street.

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