News

October 17, 2007 11:59

• Nine persons are accused on Anna Politkovskaya's case

  Currently, there are nine persons accused in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, Public Prosecutor Vyacheslav Smirnov has informed.

October 17, 2007 11:56

• Committee in defence of Trepashkin is indignant at slandering his advocate

  The Public Committee in defence of political prisoner Mikhail Trepashkin has expressed indignation at slander information in relation to Lyubov Kosik, defender of the ex-FSB officer, disseminated by Trepashkin's public defender Sergey Kuznetsov.

October 17, 2007 11:51

• Authorities of Grozny ban the meeting of relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan

  The authorities of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, have failed to sanction a meeting that was to be held by the relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan.

October 17, 2007 11:40

• Victims of special operations will get 13 million roubles in Dagestan

  The government of Dagestan has allotted 13 million roubles to compensate the damage caused by three counterterrorist special operations.

October 17, 2007 11:35

• Krasnodar Territory: court releases OMON fighters who have beaten tourists

  Today, the Lazarevskoe District Court has released from custody three out of seven OMON officers accused of beating tourists in summer of 2006 in the city of Sochi (Krasnodar Territory).

October 16, 2007 15:51

• Prisoner sews up his mouth in Azerbaijan

  Mekhman Muradov, a life prisoner of the Gobustan closed prison of Azerbaijan, has sewn up his mouth and went on a hunger strike.

October 16, 2007 15:48

• Azerbaijan: arrested ex-Minister of Public Health complains of his custody conditions

  Ali Insanov, former Minister of Public Health complains of his custody conditions. The ex-Minister who is kept in the penitentiary establishment No. 13 was placed into a barrack for 150 inmates.

October 16, 2007 15:46

• Armen Aivazyan: resolution of the US Congress is the most complete document recognizing genocide of Armenians

  In the opinion of Armen Aivazyan, Director of the "Ararat" Centre of Scientific-Strategic Studies, Resolution 106, approved one of these days by the US Congress, is considering many acute issues for Armenians, and this is its main distinction for the better from a number of similar documents adopted in some other countries.

October 16, 2007 15:43

• Abkhazian Eparchy: there are no Georgian churches and monasteries in Abkhazia

  The Abkhazian Eparchy has refuted the statement of President of Georgia Saakashvili about liquidated Georgian Orthodox churches and monasteries in Abkhazia, and declared that there are no Georgian churches and monasteries as such in Abkhazia.

October 16, 2007 15:40

• State Committee for Work with Religious Organizations: no Georgian church was closed in Azerbaijan

  Allegations of certain Georgian NGOs about shutting down the Georgian church in Gakha village and exile of the churchman from there have nothing to do with reality, the State Committee for Work with Religious Structures informed.

October 15, 2007 11:56

• State Duma to pass this week the law on confiscation of land plots for the Olympiad in Krasnodar Territory

  In the middle of this week, the State Duma of the Russian Federation will approve the law on creating the State Olympic Corporation. On October 16, the deputies will consider another Olympic bill.

October 15, 2007 11:52

• Putin admits changes in the NGO law

  Vladimir Putin does not exclude a possibility of amending the Russian legislation that regulates the activities of NGOs.

October 15, 2007 11:49

• Azerbaijani authorities are accuse of closing a Georgian church

  According to Ucha Nanuashvili, leader of the Georgia-based Centre for Defence of Human Rights, the authorities of Azerbaijan want to shut down a Georgian church in the north of the country.

October 15, 2007 11:46

• Putin: investigation into Politkovskaya's case is near its end

  President of Russia Vladimir Putin believes that the investigation of the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is on the proper track and close to its end.

October 15, 2007 10:58

• Experts have examined the video record of the murder of the natives of Dagestan and Tajikistan

  According to a source from the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea, "the video record reveals appeals to the actions, directed at kindling hatred and racial enmity."

October 15, 2007 10:52

• Russian family executed and house blown up in Ingushetia

  On October 14 at about 2:30 p.m. it became known that a Russian family was assassinated by unknown culprits in the city of Karabulak (Ingushetia).

October 13, 2007 15:40

• Russian human rights activists discuss situation in North Caucasus with Condoleezza Rice

  Today, US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice has held a meeting in Moscow with representatives of civil organizations and mass media, where they discussed the situation with human rights in Russia, the level of corruption, problems in the area of freedom of speech and the situation in North Caucasus.

October 13, 2007 15:33

• "Beslan's Mothers" hope for objectivity and support of European Court

  Victims of the terrorist act in Beslan prepare to refer all documents on the case to the Strasbourg Court on Human Rights and hope that the Court, being the supreme European instance of justice, will support their stand.

October 13, 2007 15:28

• "The Voice of Beslan" has appealed against acquittal of militiamen in Ingushetia SC

  Issa Gazdiyev, Ingushetia Supreme Court judge, has acquitted Malgobeck district internal affairs unit officers who were accused of negligence, causing the tragedy in Beslan in September 2004.

October 13, 2007 15:22

• North Ossetia court adjourns its decision with regard to lawyer Kodzaeva

  Lenin district court of North Ossetia has adjourned its decision on whether or not to initiate a criminal case against lawyer Irina Kodzaeva accused by the General Prosecutor's Office investigator of violence, until October 15.