News

May 11, 2007 22:17

• Georgia does not exclude war on South Ossetia

  Today, South Ossetia has introduced restrictions on motor traffic in road sections near Georgian villages Tamarasheni-Kurta-Kekhvi and in the area of Ergneti village.

May 10, 2007 23:39

• Human rights activists demand to excite criminal case against Cossacks' Ataman of Stavropol Territory

  "Today, the lawyers of the Inter-Regional Human Rights Association "AGORA" have addressed Sergey Golovanyov, Public Prosecutor of Stavropol Territory, with a demand to hold investigation and initiate a criminal case in relation to Mikhail Serkov, Ataman of the Stavropol Cossack District of the Tersk Cossack Army, for his public extremist statements.

May 10, 2007 23:14

• Court again postpones consideration of the complaint lodged by "Internews" head

  On Friday, May 11, the Golovinskiy Court of Moscow will announce its decision on the petition of the Public Prosecutor's Office asking to transfer the complaint lodged by Manana Aslamazyan, head of the Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews"), on illegal confiscation of documents from her organization to another court.

May 10, 2007 22:16

• Students released in Abkhazia intend to apply to European Court

  The three Georgian students released in Abkhazia are going to file a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights and to protest against their detention.

May 10, 2007 22:10

• Beslan militiamen of North Ossetia petition for amnesty

  At the court session on the case of Beslan ROVD (District Interior Unit) commanders (North Ossetia), the defendants have lodged a petition that the amnesty should be applied to them, as to the militiamen who operated inside a zone of counterterrorist operation.

May 10, 2007 22:03

• European Court condemns Russia for murdering a Chechnya resident

  Today, the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) has blamed Russia for disappearance and murder of a young man from Chechnya, the "Legal Initiative for Russia," organization representing the interests of the victim's relatives, has stated today.

May 08, 2007 23:26

• Parliament of Georgia decides to set up a temporary administrative unit in South Ossetia

  At its today's session, the Parliament of Georgia has passed a decision to create a temporary administrative unit in South Ossetia.

May 08, 2007 23:16

• Kabardino-Balkaria discusses the problems of religious extremism

  Today was the final day of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Modern Russian Society: Actual Problems of Fighting Crime," held in Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the basis of the Nalchik Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

May 08, 2007 22:54

• Chechen separatists' web site author sentenced to compulsory medical treatment

  On May 7, the court of the town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, found Andrei Novikov, author of the "Chechenpress" separatists' web site, guilty of public appeals to extremist activities (Part 1, Article 280, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

May 08, 2007 22:51

• Whereabouts of Hussein Mutsolgov, kidnapped in Ingushetia, unknown

  On May 5, 2007, in the Nazran District of Ingushetia, unknown persons in masks and camouflage uniform kidnapped Hussein Mutsolgov, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, and Zaurbek Evloev, 23.

May 08, 2007 22:20

• Break till May 14 announced in Arakcheev-Khudyakov's trial

  Today's court session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on the case of Khudyakov and Arakcheev, officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, accused of murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya, has interrogated one witness.

May 07, 2007 22:51

• Suspects of murdering Elmar Guseinov arrested in Georgia

  In Tbilisi, the law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested Tair Khubanov, and Teimuraz Aliev who are suspected of murdering Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine.

May 07, 2007 22:50

• New record of number of religious prisoners of conscience in Armenia

  Armenia's Jehovah's Witnesses have complained to Forum 18 News Service that 72 of their young men are now imprisoned for refusing both military service and the alternative service under military control, the highest number ever.

May 07, 2007 22:37

• Human rights defenders state a sharp reduction of kidnappings in Chechnya

  A radical reduction in the number of kidnappings and massive non-targeted utilization of federal funds are the basic tendencies of modern Checnya's development.

May 07, 2007 22:24

• Chechnya sets up a commission to restore the rights of repressed citizens

  Under Ramzan Kadyrov's order a special commission has been formed in Chechnya that will be engaged in the issues of restoration of rights of the rehabilitated victims of political repressions.

May 07, 2007 22:22

• Azerbaijan stops cooperation with "Reporters without Borders"

  Azerbaijan is not going to cooperate with "Reporters without Borders" and attaches no value to declarations made by this organization.

May 05, 2007 22:18

• Ombudsman of Georgia: situation in Georgian prisons is catastrophic

  On May 4, 2007, while presenting his report for the second half of 2006 to the Committee for Human Rights and Civil Integration, Ombudsman Sozar Subari, "National Defender of Georgia," has named the state of the Georgian penitentiary system to be catastrophic and beyond the critical mark.

May 05, 2007 22:16

• Leader of Chechnya: I'll let nobody goof on people

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated the inadmissibility of illegal investigatory methods, the attention to which was drawn by heads of law enforcement bodies and representatives of power agencies of the Republic.

May 05, 2007 22:14

• Two young people kidnapped by unknown persons in camouflage in Ingushetia

  Two young people, born in 1984 and 1986, have been kidnapped by armed unknown persons in Nazran, a source at the city's department of internal affairs has telephoned on Saturday.

May 05, 2007 22:10

• "Geiryat": Georgian citizens residing in Russia are scared to go out

  Georgian citizens of Azerbaijan origin, like all other citizens of Georgia who live in Russia, cannot get employed and do not dare even to go out of their homes.