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August 23, 2007 13:48

• President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting on kidnappings

  Today, the third sitting during the recent three months on the issue of kidnappings was held under direction of President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev.

August 23, 2007 13:43

• Overwhelming majority of Russians distrust the authorities' version of Beslan terror act

  On the eve of the third anniversary of the act of terror in Beslan, 81 percent of Russians distrust the versions of the authorities about the events that happened in School No. 1 in 2004.

August 23, 2007 13:30

• Kaloev will not be released from Swiss prison before prosecutor's appeal has been considered

  Today, the Federal Court of Switzerland has published its statement confirming the delay of enactment of the decision of the Zurich Canton Court on early release of Russian Vitaly Kaloev, who is serving his term for murdering Peter Nielsen, air traffic controller of the SkyGuide Swiss Company.

August 23, 2007 13:11

• St-Petersburg anarchists assert that charge of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a provocation

  The arrest of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, members of the "Petersburg League of Anarchists," on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva Express" train is a deliberate provocation of special agencies, Alexander Maishev said.

August 23, 2007 12:36

• Chechnya native accused of blowing up "Neva Express" declares his alibi

  Three persons were arrested under the case of blowing up the "Neva Express" train: two St-Petersburg anarchists - Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, and Hasan Didigov, 25, a native of Chechnya.

August 23, 2007 12:34

• Manana Aslamazyan asks to consider her case in absentia

  Manana Aslamazyan, head of the "Educated Media" Foundation, asks to consider her criminal case at court without her presence - in absentia.

August 22, 2007 23:57

• "Dagestan Mothers" continue hunger strike, their condition is worse

  In Makhachkala, the hunger strike of the women-members of the "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" Public Organization continues. The health condition of some of them is close to critical.

August 22, 2007 23:48

• Military guilty of death of woman trialled in Chechnya

  On August 21, the Garrison Military Court of the City of Grozny started another trial of the case of Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Korgun, for whose guilt a local woman-resident was killed and two more women were heavily wounded.

August 22, 2007 22:28

• Azerbaijan: health of "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement's chairman is worse

  Ruslan Bashirli, Chairman of the "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement, who is kept at Corrective Facility No. 1 in Azerbaijan, has health problems.

August 22, 2007 21:31

• Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdict to journalist Einullah Fatullaev

  Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has considered the cassation complaint lodged by advocates of journalist Einullah Fatullaev.

August 22, 2007 21:04

• Police disperses journalists in Azerbaijan

  Today, a group of dissidents from Iran has made an attempt to hold a picket in front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baku in connection with the visit to Azerbaijan of Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinezhad.

August 22, 2007 15:50

• Union of Georgian Writers demands resignation of the authorities

  On August 21, a spontaneous action was held near the building of the Union of Georgian Writers, which was attended by Georgian writers and poets, public figures and representatives of some opposition parties.

August 22, 2007 12:34

• Conference on 1937 repressions held in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has hosted a conference dated to the 70th anniversary of the "great terror" that took place in 1937 and the years to follow.

August 21, 2007 14:20

• People in Chechnya refute complete liquidation of separatists

  The recent statement of General Dmitri Fomenko that all the militants' regiments have been liquidated in the territory of the Republic, and those remaining ones have moved to Ingushetia and Dagestan, is perceived by residents of the Chechen Republic as a bad joke.

August 21, 2007 14:12

• David Ovannisyan: Iraqi Armenians are persecuted

  David Ovannisyan, Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Associated Professor at the Division of Arabism of the Yerevan State University, has reported that recently the number of threats and kidnappings of Armenians in Iraq has increased.

August 21, 2007 14:03

• Chairman of Board of Elders fined for holding a meeting in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Ismail Sabanchiev, one of the organizers of the meeting in Nalchik (capital of Kabardino-Balkaria) on July 14, was brought to administrative responsibility by the Nalchik magistrate court.

August 21, 2007 13:54

• Defendants in case on Kondopoga disorders plead partially guilty

  Today, the Kondopoga City Court has started considering on the merits the case about mass disorders.

August 21, 2007 13:49

• Arrested journalist asks to transfer him to another prison in Azerbaijan

  Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov), a satirical journalist who is currently at a prison hospital, is complaining of his heavy custody conditions, non-observance of sanitary norms and remoteness of his custody.

August 20, 2007 12:06

• Two suspects of blowing up the "Neva Express" detained

  A source in the investigatory bodies of the region has reported today that two suspects of undermining the "Neva Express" train were detained in the Novgorod Region.

August 20, 2007 11:59

• Act of terror prevented in the capital of Chechnya

  Employees of the interior department have detected a self-made explosive device in the Zavodskoy District of the capital of Chechnya in the area of the central marketplace in the Marx Street.