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February 12, 2008 12:08

• Hotline on election issues functional in Krasnodar

  Krasnodar human rights activists have launched a hotline telephone on the matters related to forthcoming elections. The territorial NGO "Civil Voice" was the initiator.

February 12, 2008 12:01

• HRC "Memorial": authorities incite the society of Ingushetia against themselves

  Today, the Independent Press Centre in Moscow has held presentation of the report prepared by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled: "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?", presenting a review of the events that took place in the Republic in 2007 and containing recommendations to the authorities of the region and heads of power agencies on how to remedy the situation.

February 12, 2008 11:56

• Ingushetia: militants declare hunt on drug dealers and slot machine owners

  Leaflets have appeared in public places of Ingushetia, in which the militants are promising, as on March 1, to start killing drug dealers and owners of gambling dens and slot machine halls.

February 12, 2008 11:53

• Military Prosecutor's Office investigates shelling of Gekhi village in Chechnya

  The Military Prosecutor's Office of the Combined Armed Forces in Northern Caucasus has initiated a criminal case under Article 293 of Russian Criminal Code ("Negligence") on the fact of artillery bombardment of Gekhi village, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya.

February 11, 2008 17:18

• Kindergarten teacher trialled for child abuse in Stavropol

  This week, proceeding will go on in Stavropol on the case of Lilia Leonova, a teacher of Kindergarten No. 78 "Alye Parusa", accused of sticking the mouth of one of fooling girls with adhesive tape.

February 11, 2008 17:15

• Constitutional Court refuses to recognize the obstacles arisen in front of Ter-Petrosyan to be insuperable

  On February 11, the Constitutional Court of Armenia rejected the claim of presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who demanded to recognize the obstacles that he has faced in his pre-election campaign to be insuperable.

February 11, 2008 17:06

• Court marshals accuse "Voice of Beslan" members of beating them

  The Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) accuses three members of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization of beating seven court marshals and a judge.

February 11, 2008 16:55

• Ingushetia: relatives of Chapanov killed by power agents seek help from human rights activists

  The relatives of Yusup Chapanov, who was killed in the course of a special operation in Nazran on February 1 on suspicion of taking part in a number of terror acts in the territory of Ingushetia, are confident of his innocence and are going to strive for thorough investigation into this incident.

February 11, 2008 14:24

• Traffic on "Transcam" restored but transportation to South Ossetia hampered

  The traffic flow along the Transcaucasian Highway ("Transcam") connecting South Ossetia with the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) has been completely restored.

February 11, 2008 13:37

• Andrei Keilin accused of murdering two students in Stavropol challenges his stay at SIZO

  Andrei Keilin, a resident of Karachaevo-Circassia, who was earlier accused of murdering two students in Stavropol and kept for some time at the pre-trial detention facility (SIZO), has decided to sue law enforcement bodies and claim compensation of moral damage in the sum of 1 million roubles.

February 09, 2008 17:42

• "Kommersant": relations between militaries and civil authorities can aggravate in Chechnya

  The yesterday's too lenient, in the opinion of the Chechen party, verdict to Lieutenant Colonel Korgun, guilty of murdering a woman-resident of the Shatoi District of Chechnya, can result in sharp worsening of relations between militaries and civil authorities, the "Kommersant" newspaper writes today.

February 09, 2008 17:39

• Zhivkova: printed journalism of Azerbaijan is extremely politicized

  According to Eugenia Zhivkova, Rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee, the Azerbaijani journalism in general - and the printed one in particular - is highly politicized.

February 09, 2008 17:33

• Georgia: "Thieves of Votes" action of the opposition

  The United Opposition of Georgia has held a two-hour action under the motto "Thieves of Votes" in the centre of Tbilisi, in Rustaveli Avenue, and accused President Mikhail Saakashvili and Levan Tarkhnishvili, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, of falsification of the January 5 election.

February 09, 2008 17:28

• Journalist beaten by militiamen in Krasnodar Territory

  Sergey Rozhkov, a journalist from the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, was detained at night of February 2 in the house of his relative, when he was preparing a lawful protest action. According to the journalist, he was handcuffed, beaten and thrown into the luggage compartment of the militia's "Zhiguli" car.

February 09, 2008 17:23

• Suren Surenyants: Armenian TV Channels strongly hampered Ter-Petrosyan's pre-election campaign

  By their one-sided coverage of the pre-election campaign, the TV Channels of Armenia, including the private ones, have really created compelling obstacles for the first Armenian president in the pre-election race.

February 09, 2008 16:20

• Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya denies tortures in Chernokozovo

  On the outcomes of another inspection of the custody conditions of inmates kept at the Chernokozovo Corrective Colony No. 2, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has not confirmed that convicts are tortured in this facility and the custody conditions are intolerable.

February 08, 2008 12:23

• Aushev: military actions strengthen radicalism in the Caucasus

  Military actions and special operations undertaken in the Caucasus with the aim to eliminate the threat of terror are inefficient in struggling against radicalism, but on the contrary, they strengthen it, asserts Ruslan Aushev, the first President of Ingushetia.

February 08, 2008 12:20

• Conviction record lifted from imam of Pyatigorsk

  On February 7, 2008, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow ruled to cancel the conviction record from Anton Stepanenko, imam of the city of Pyatigorsk, under the verdict of the Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory of March 30, 2007.

February 08, 2008 12:17

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, a defendant in the case on attack on Nalchik wants to refuse from taking part in the trial

  Azamat Akhkubekov, one of those accused of attacking power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a petition to the chair of the court Mohamed Tashuev with a complaint against the treatment of defendants during convoying. If the complaint is not satisfied, Akhkubekov is going to refuse from taking part in the process.

February 08, 2008 12:14

• Advocates of ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan are dissatisfied with his treatment

  The advocates of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, remained dissatisfied with the medical examination of their client. Elton Guliev, one of ex-minister's defenders, has stated that Aliev's transfer to the prison clinic was caused not by care of his health but by desire to prevent his meeting with PACE co-Rapporteurs.