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February 01, 2008 11:41

• Hunger strike of SIZO-1 inmates lasted for a week in Kalmykia

  For more than a week, inmates kept in SIZO-1 of the city of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, were on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of the facility's administration.

February 01, 2008 11:35

• Kabardino-Balkaria: the Bar tries to find out why advocate Dorogova was not let to SIZO

  The leaders of the Bar Association of Kabardino-Balkaria sent a letter to Oleg Zharikov, Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria, asking him to clear out the reasons why advocate Larissa Dorogova was not admitted to the Nalchik SIZO, where she wanted to render legal aid to one of the defendants.

February 01, 2008 11:32

• Vice-commander of Sochi's Lazarevskoe ROVD: OMON raid to children's camp in July 2006 was illegitimate

  Sergey Saveliev, second commander of the Lazarevskoe ROVD of the city of Sochi, asserts that the raid in July 2006 of the OMON to the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp located in Nizhnee Makopse village was unjustified.

January 31, 2008 13:08

• Bastrykin: executors of blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train are established, three of them arrested

  Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russia, spoke to the Russian FSB Collegium on January 30 and stated that the investigation had establishes the executors of the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train, and three of them were arrested.

January 31, 2008 13:04

• Commission from Dagestan visits Khankala military unit

  The commission set up to investigate complaints of the soldiers from Dagestan who take their contractual army service in Khankala has visited the military unit and met its commanders.

January 31, 2008 12:47

• Liudmila Sarkisyan: Armenian authorities use provocations trying to stop the opposition

  Liudmila Sarkisyan, chair of the Social-Democratic Party, has treated the arrest of four members of the pre-electoral staff of Levon Ter-Petrosyan located in the city of Talin as a provocation.

January 31, 2008 12:41

• In Azerbaijan, police detained "Dalga" activists

  Today, the police of the capital of Azerbaijan has detained 14 activists of the "Dalga" (Wave) youth movement who tried to hold a memory action dedicated to Mamed Emin Rasulzade, founder of the Azerbaijani People's Republic (1918-1920) and dated to his 124th birthday.

January 31, 2008 12:38

• Human Rights Watch draws EU's attention to Azerbaijan

  The Human Rights Watch calls on the leaders of the European Union to pay a more thorough attention to the situation with democracy in Azerbaijan.

January 31, 2008 12:32

• Access to SIZO of Kabardino-Balkaria banned to advocate Dorogova

  Today, lawyer Larissa Dorogova was not let to the investigatory isolation facility of the Kabardino-Balkaria's Department of the Federal Punishment Enforcement Service, where her client - one of participants of the events of October 13, 2005, whom she consults on defence of his rights in custody, is kept.

January 31, 2008 12:18

• European Court for Human Rights accepts documents of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee

  The Strasbourg Court has notified the "Voice of Beslan" Public Committee about receipt of the documents evidencing violations of the rights of those who suffered in the Beslan terror act.

January 31, 2008 12:12

• Kesaeva: "Voice of Beslan" cherishes no more illusions on Putin

  Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee, has stated, after receiving a reply from the RF President to the Committee's letter asking to stop prosecution of the organization, the end of illusions in relation to Mr Putin.

January 30, 2008 14:25

• CEC of Georgia would not show complete video records of voting to the United Opposition

  Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the United Opposition, has informed that the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia refused to present to the Opposition complete video records of the voting process at the early presidential election in Georgia and plebiscite held on January 5.

January 30, 2008 13:48

• Prosecutor's office: actions of militia against widows of the militants who perished in Nalchik are illegal

  The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Nalchik has sent replies to the widows of the militants who were killed in the attack on October 13, 2005, in which the actions of militiamen are treated as illegal.

January 30, 2008 13:43

• People in Chechnya hope that militaries will be made responsible for shelling Gekhi village

  The authorities and residents of Chechnya hope that the militaries will be brought to responsibility for shelling the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, from long-range guns.

January 30, 2008 13:29

• Court cancels the verdict to the student from Adygea who put an execution video clip on Internet

  The verdict of the Maikop City Court in relation to student Victor Milkov, who placed on the Internet a video clip showing a murder scene of natives from Caucasus and Central Asia, was cancelled by the Criminal Panel of the Supreme Court of Adygea for "lenient penalty."

January 30, 2008 13:27

• Five persons accused of Cherkizovo marketplace explosion plead guilty

  Five out of eight defendants in the case related to explosion in Moscow's Cherkizovo marketplace on August 21, 2006, where 11 persons were lost, have partially pled guilty.

January 30, 2008 13:22

• Georgian ex-Minister Irakliy Okruashvili released

  Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence of Georgia, has been released from custody under his advocates' guarantee.

January 29, 2008 12:42

• Chechen woman whose children were lost in the mountains will get an apartment in Poland

  The authorities of the Polish city of Olsztyn have agreed to provide social habitation to the Dzhabrailov family from Chechnya, which has lost their three daughters in the mountains, when attempting to illegally cross the Ukrainian-Polish border.

January 29, 2008 12:39

• George Bush: election in Georgia is an event in the history of freedom

  In his final annual message to the Congress, US President George Bush has noted the success of the election in Georgia and treated it among "the tremendous events in the history of freedom."

January 29, 2008 12:32

• Candidates-losers at Georgian presidential election put forward an ultimatum to the authorities

  The oppositional candidates for the President of Georgia, who have lost the election on January 5, have put forward their 17 claims to the authorities in the form of an ultimatum, and appointed the deadline on February 15, threatening with mass protest actions.