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August 31, 2007 11:40

• Eyewitness: murderers of the young man in Nazran threatened the witnesses

  One of the eyewitnesses of the murder of the young man named Islam Garakoev committed on August 30 in Nazran (Ingushetia) asserts that the killers threatened the witnesses of the incident with their sub-machine guns and shot atop of their heads.

August 31, 2007 11:32

• The basic version of car explosion in Ingushetia is a terror act dated to September 1

  The "Gazeta.Ru" reports with a reference to its high-ranking source in the investigatory bodies of Ingushetia that the main version of the explosion is an act of terror dated to September 1.

August 31, 2007 10:41

• Azerbaijan: one of convicted journalists is at death's door

  The health condition of Azerbaijani prisoner Faramaz Allakhverdiev, an employee of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, continues to aggravate.

August 30, 2007 23:41

• Meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya held in Moscow

  The participants of the meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, which was held today in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow on the birthday of the murdered journalist, have expressed hope that there are those true guilty among the detainees of the State Office of Public Prosecutor on suspicion of the murder of the journalist.

August 30, 2007 11:46

• Azerbaijan categorically denies that the house collapsed because of explosion

  Zakir Garalov, General Public Prosecutor of Azerbaijan, has stated today to journalists that the version of an explosion as the cause of the house collapse in Baku is inconsistent.

August 30, 2007 11:17

• Human Rights Watch: Kremlin fights against civil society by confiscating office equipment

  Since August 29, the work has been paralyzed of the Foundation in Support of Tolerance, which was founded instead of the liquidated Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship.

August 30, 2007 11:13

• Ingushetia: militaries shot dead a boy of 16

  In Ingushetia, fighters of a mobile detached unit have assassinated Islam Garakoev, 16. The incident has happened today in Nazran at about 5:30 p.m. in the Ekazhevskiy market.

August 30, 2007 11:11

• The court on Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case decides to exhume the victims' bodies

  The court has made a decision to exhume the bodies of the Chechen residents, of whose murder the officers of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev are accused.

August 30, 2007 11:08

• Two Azerbaijani natives assassinated in Moscow

  The natives of the Caucasus murdered at night of May 30 in Moscow turned out to be Azerbaijanis.

August 30, 2007 11:03

• Victim of beating by militiamen gets moral damage compensation in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Nalchik City Court has passed a decision to partially satisfy the claim lodged by Khamidbi Apshev, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and to collect 30,000 roubles from the state treasury in favour of the claimant as indemnification of his moral damage.

August 29, 2007 23:11

• In Krasnodar Territory court satisfies Shapsugs' complaint against City Court of Sochi

  The case related to complaints of Black Sea Shapsug nationals Islam Napso and Kharet Tesheva at the Judicial Board for Civil Cases of the Krasnodar Territorial Court was decided in favour of the applicants.

August 29, 2007 23:04

• Picket with a demand to dissolve the Federal Registration Service held in Moscow

  On August 28, opposite the building of the Federal Registration Service (FRS) in Moscow, a picket was held with a demand to liquidate this Service.

August 29, 2007 23:00

• In Azerbaijan policemen beat relatives of the victims of the crash of a 16-storey unfinished building

  In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the police have beaten the relatives of those who perished or disappeared under the collapsed 16-storey house.

August 29, 2007 22:56

• North Ossetia: inspector of the State Office of Public Prosecutor applies violence to advocate

  At the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Vladikavkaz, the advocate Irina Kodzaeva was examined by the on duty neurosurgeon and diagnosed brain concussion.

August 29, 2007 22:49

• Anarchist Kalyonov, suspected of blowing up "Neva Express" train, stops his hunger strike

  Anarchist from St-Petersburg Andrei Kalyonov, arrested on suspicion of organizing the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train, has stopped his protest hunger strike.

August 29, 2007 13:21

• Zyazikov: murder of the Russian teacher solved in Ingushetia

  The murder of Russian teacher Liudmila Teryokhina has been opened in Ingushetia.

August 29, 2007 13:19

• Two journalists detained in Azerbaijan

  Today, Gambar Gambarov and Etimad Bydagov, employees of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety, have been detained by securities from the Azerbaijani President's machinery.

August 28, 2007 23:44

• Meeting in support of anarchists suspected of blowing up the "Neva Express" train dispersed

  In the centre of Moscow, militiamen have dispersed a meeting in support of St-Petersburg anarchists detained on the case of blowing up the "Neva Express" train on August 13.

August 28, 2007 23:37

• Ernest Mezak appeals against refusal of Komi capital's court to recognize postal blockade of Georgia to be illegal

  On August 27, Ernest Mezak, a Board member of the "Memorial" Komi Human Rights Commissions (KHRC), lodged an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Republic against refusal of the City Court of Komi's capital, the city of Syktyvkar, to recognize illegal the Russia's postal blockade of Georgia.

August 28, 2007 23:33

• Azerbaijan: ex-Minister of Economic Development rejects his advocates

  At today's judicial session on the case of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, his brother Rafik Aliev and 17 other persons, the main defendant has stated that he rejects the defence.