News

August 11, 2007 15:22

• Georgia: over ten mass media evicted from their offices

  The "Kavkassia" Georgian Independent TV Company has failed so far, after eviction on August 10 from the building of the "Samshoblo" (Homeland) Publishing House, to find any alternative office premises and resume its broadcasting.

August 11, 2007 15:13

• RF "Rosselkhoznadzor": Georgia throws carcasses of infected pigs into the river

  The Russian Committee for Agricultural Supervision ("Rosselkhoznadzor") has addressed the International Epizootic Bureau in connection with a message of the Veterinary Service of Abkhazia about detection in River Kodor of carcasses of pigs that perished from African swine fever.

August 10, 2007 14:33

• Zyazikov: suspects of murdering Russian teacher detained in Ingushetia

  Murat Zyazikov, President of Ingushetia, has reported that "under the data of law enforcement bodies, Prosecutor's Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and respective agencies, suspects have been detected, some people detained" in the case of the murder of Russian lady-teacher.

August 10, 2007 14:19

• Militia violently disperses meeting of "Dagestan Mothers"

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the militia had dispersed a peaceful meeting organized by relatives of kidnapped young men.

August 10, 2007 06:58

• Committee in defence of rights of Azerbaijani ex-Minister of Public Health is dissatisfied with human rights defenders

  The case of Rizvan Talybov, chairman of the committee in defence of Ali Insanov's rights, has been delivered for enforcement to the Sumgait Court of Azerbaijan, to Judge Takhmina Khalilova.

August 10, 2007 06:50

• European Court accepts complaints of two Azerbaijani oppositionists

  The European Court has accepted for proceedings a complaint filed by Arifa Gadzhily, head of the central executive office of the "Musavat" Party. Earlier the European Court has accepted the complaint of Panakh Gusein, deputy of Azerbaijani Parliament.

August 10, 2007 06:46

• Police evicts 10 newspaper editorial boards and 2 TV Companies in the capital of Georgia

  The Georgian police are moving about ten editorial boards of Georgian newspapers and two TV Companies out of the building in the centre of Tbilisi.

August 09, 2007 19:33

• Delegation of "Dagestan Mothers" goes to search kidnapped persons in Chechnya

  The thirteen women who had gone on hunger strike in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, went to the Chechen Republic and visited the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Grozny.

August 09, 2007 18:39

• Elena Liptser: Trepashkin's life is in danger

  The health of ex-FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving his four-year punishment for disclosure of state secrets, has seriously aggravated recently.

August 09, 2007 17:45

• Azerbaijan: inmates convicted for abusing Prophet Mohammed transferred to strict custody colony

  In Azerbaijan, publicist Rafik Tagi and editor of the "Sanat" (Culture) newspaper Samir Sadatoglu were sent to the strict custody colony for serving their punishments.

August 09, 2007 12:51

• Esko Repo: 15 percent of Russian political refugees in Finland are Chechen natives

  Esko Repo, head of the Department for Refugees of the Authority on Foreigners' Matters of Finland, has stated: "Before the end of June this year, a total of 75 Russian citizens arrived to Finland and applied for granting political asylum. There are Chechens among them."

August 09, 2007 12:26

• Chechnya's society initiates dismissal of Military Prosecutor

  The Chechen society asks the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office to audit the activities of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the United Military Grouping in Northern Caucasus.

August 08, 2007 17:21

• "Voice of Beslan" fears that the SC of Kabardino-Balkaria will acquit Ingush militiamen

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has continued the judicial investigation at the trial of the commanders of the Malgobek District Interior Department (ROVD) of Ingushetia, accused of negligence that entailed the terror act in Beslan.

August 08, 2007 17:10

• Advocates ask to send Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case to Military Prosecutor's Office for additional investigation

  At the session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court on the case of two officers (Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev), accused of murdering peaceful Chechens, the defendants' advocates have petitioned about sending the case to the Military Prosecutor's Office for additional investigation.

August 08, 2007 11:26

• Bureaucrats tried to get 71 million roubles of "combat" money instead of those who fought in Northern Caucasus

  Workers of the Military Counterintelligence Service and Department for Fighting Economic Crime (UBEP) of the Chief Interior Administration of Moscow (GUVD) have detained several swindlers who tried to receive under forged documents the so-called "combat" bonuses in the sum of 71 million roubles instead of 71 persons who fought in Northern Caucasus.

August 08, 2007 01:26

• Rapid growth of oncology patients observed in Chechnya in recent years

  Every year, up to one thousand persons die in Chechnya from different types of oncology diseases. In the opinion of physicians, for lack of a specialized clinic in Chechnya, it is practically impossible to detect oncology patients at early disease phases, thus depriving them of any chance to survive.

August 08, 2007 01:20

• Vasily Krasulya: authorities of Stavropol Territory hinder people to help people

  The authorities of the Stavropol Territory interfere into the activities of the protest movement and hinder the needy people to receive help.

August 07, 2007 20:44

• Suspect of murdering antifascist Kacharava sentenced to 12 years in prison

  The Petersburg Court has sentenced four defendants in the murder case of student-antifascist Timur Kacharava to imprisonment from 2 to 12 years.

August 07, 2007 18:32

• Ingushetia: information about beating of Ali-Yurt residents by power agents is verified

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are checking the facts of beating by federal servicemen of local residents in the course of a special operation in one of Ingush villages near the border with North Ossetia.

August 07, 2007 17:44

• Nukhazhiev: attack on Tsa-Vedeno is a result of negligence of power agencies

  The militants' attack on Tsa-Vedeno, when three persons fell victim, is a result of negligence and criminally poor attitude of the heads of the power agencies to their duties, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen Ombudsman, said.