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June 11, 2007 14:25

• "Disagreement March" in Moscow will be guarded by 2000 militiamen

  In Moscow, during the today's meeting of the oppositional coalition "The Other Russia" safety will be ensured by more than two thousand militiamen, a spokesman of Moscow's GUVD (Chief Interior Department) has told today.

June 07, 2007 18:29

• The right of citizens for judicial defence and its enforcement discussed in Volgograd

  The Volgograd human rights NGOs, with support of M. A. Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, held a round table "On Enforcement of Citizens' Right for Judicial Defence in the Volgograd Region."

June 07, 2007 16:22

• People in Kabardino-Balkaria condemn cremation of militants' bodies

  Yesterday, it became known in Kabardino-Balkaria that the bodies of the militants who perished during the events on October 13-14, 2005, had been cremated right a year ago.

June 07, 2007 14:02

• Prosecutor-General's Office has investigated the attack on capital of Kabardino-Balkaria in 2005

  The investigation into the criminal case of the militants' attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in October 2005 is over. The fact was declared today to the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of Russia for the South Federal District.

June 06, 2007 20:54

• Court in North Ossetia refused to initiate a case against Beslan operative headquarters

  The Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia), having considered today the complaint of the victims who challenged the refusal of the Public Prosecutor's Office to initiate criminal cases against the members of the operative headquarters in charge of rescuing the hostages in Beslan on September 1-3, 2004, has confirmed the legality of the Office's position.

June 06, 2007 19:44

• Sanakoev: water supply failure liquidated in South Ossetia

  Dmitri Sanakoev, administration head of the temporary territorial unit, has told journalists today that "the Edisi-Tskhinval water line failure in the Kekhvi-Tamarasheni section was liquidated yesterday: the pipe has been repaired, and now the water supply can be restored."

June 06, 2007 18:27

• Russia responds to European Court on the case of non-giving out militants' bodies for burial in Kabardino-Balkaria

  "The bodies of 95 militants who perished in the events on October 13, 2005, in Kabardino-Balkaria were cremated on June 22, 2006," runs the answer of V. Milinchuk, Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court for Human Rights, to the Memorandum of the European Court on the complaint "Sabanchieva et al versus Russian Federation."

June 06, 2007 17:04

• All-European action for giving out Maskhadov's body to his relatives for burial

  On Saturday, June 9, at midday GMT an international action will be held for giving out the body of President of Chechnya Aslan Maskhadov, assassinated by Russian special agencies, to his family. Simultaneous manifestations will take place in the capitals of Russia, Poland, Sweden, in cities of Austria, Norway, Germany, Denmark and other European countries.

June 06, 2007 16:37

• Builders work at their own risk in the capital of Chechnya

  The workers engaged in construction and restoration works in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, are actually not protected by the law. The result is a high level of traumatism and even deaths of people at construction sites.

June 05, 2007 21:29

• Trepashkin refuses to have advocates

  The consideration by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court of the cassation complaint lodged by Mikhail Trepashkin against the ruling of the Nizhni Tagil District Court on toughening his custody mode that was pre-scheduled for tomorrow, June 6, will not take place.

June 05, 2007 20:05

• 20 protesters detained in Stavropol

  Over one thousand persons took part in the non-sanctioned meeting that has started today in Stavropol at the building of the Territory's Government. The meeting was provoked by the murder on June 3 in the Territory's capital of two students - Dmitri Blokhin and Pavel Chadin (today at midday they were buried in the cities of Stavropol and Blagodarny).

June 05, 2007 19:16

• "Demos": criticism of the work of "Memorial" in Chechnya is unjustified

  On May 30 a meeting was held in the city of Gudermes of President Ramzan Kadyrov with representatives of the Republic's NGOs. During the event, the region's leader criticized the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial."

June 05, 2007 16:28

• Journalists hold a protest action in Azerbaijan

  Today a group of Azerbaijani journalists has held an action in front of the building of the Court for Grave Crimes in protest against non-admittance of independent and opposition media to the trial of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister for Economic Development.

June 05, 2007 15:20

• Moslem asks President of Kabardino-Balkaria for protection against oppression

  Ruslan Karabashev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, sent a letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria asking to defend him against ungrounded prosecution by power agencies.

June 05, 2007 14:35

• 16 persons kidnapped in Chechnya during three months of 2007

  The kidnapping problem in the territory of Chechnya is still unresolved, although the number of this sort of crimes has essentially decreased in comparison with the first years of the "counterterrorist operation."

June 04, 2007 22:13

• V. Gefter: we cannot assert that in 1999 apartment houses were blown up by FSB

  Valentin Gefter, Director General of the Institute for Human Rights and a Board Member of the International Society "Memorial," has summed up intermediate outcomes of the work of the Public Commission for investigating the circumstances of explosions of apartment blocks in Moscow and Volgodonsk and exercises in Ryazan in 1999.

June 04, 2007 20:49

• Murder of two students in Stavropol: three versions

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Leninskiy District of Stavropol has initiated a criminal case on the fact of murdering two students in the city of Stavropol.

June 04, 2007 19:01

• Human rights defenders: Chechen student was killed by militiamen in Stavropol

  On June 1, 2007, the All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" received materials evidencing that Stavropol student Gelani Ruslanovich Ataev had not perished during a mass fight in Stavropol on May 24 in the Yunost Avenue, but he was beaten to death by employees of law enforcement bodies who had first handcuffed him.

June 04, 2007 15:13

• Investigation into Kondopoga fight is over

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Karelia has finished the investigation of the criminal case initiated on the facts of the murder of two Kondopoga residents and inflicting various gravity harm to the health of nine other citizens during the incident at night on August 29-30, 2006, near the "Chaika" restaurant.

June 04, 2007 14:19

• Cossack Ataman of Stavropol Territory will not be brought to criminal liability

  Mikhail Serkov, Ataman of the Stavropol Cossack District of the Tersk Cossack Army, will not be brought to criminal responsibility for his anti-Estonian utterances.