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May 05, 2007 22:04

• Jehovah's Witnesses win the case against Georgia in Strasbourg

  The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has made its decision on the case "97 members of Gdlan congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and four other persons versus Georgia."

May 05, 2007 15:38

• Journalists jailed for inciting religious hatred in Azerbaijan

  A court in Azerbaijan jailed two independent journalists today over an article that said Islam was hampering economic and political progress.

May 04, 2007 23:15

• Outcomes of searching defendants in Ulman's case to be presented in Rostov-on-Don

  On May 24, the court session on Ulman's case will announce the outcomes of the undertaken operative and search actions and discuss the destiny of Major Alexei Perelevskiy, the only defendant who did not disappear like the rest of them.

May 04, 2007 23:00

• Human rights defenders to address EU on observance of human rights in Russia

  Russian human rights defenders will address the European Union (EU) with a request to openly discuss with Moscow the problems that are obvious in Russia, and to demand that it should observe its international obligations.

May 04, 2007 22:48

• Power officials in Chechnya ask Kadyrov to close ORB-2 down

  Heads of Chechen law enforcement bodies and power agencies structures have decided to ask Ramzan Kadyrov, Republic's leader, to initiate liquidation of the Operative-Search Bureau-2 (ORB-2) located in the capital of the Republic.

May 04, 2007 22:10

• The defence party in Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case will speak at court on May 7

  On Monday, May 7, the hearing will restart of the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three Chechen residents.

May 03, 2007 22:29

• Head of Kabardino-Balkarian MIA calls clerics to counteract religious extremism

  Today, on May 3, Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, held a meeting with Mufti Anas Pshikhachov, Dean of Orthodox churches of Kabardino-Balkaria Valentin Bobylev and Chief Rabbi of Kabardino-Balkaria and Nalchik Levi Shabaev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent informs.

May 03, 2007 22:27

• Russia pays compensation to the person deported from Kabardino-Balkaria

  In performance of the decision of the European Court for Human Rights, the government of Russia has transferred eight thousand euros to the personal account of Turkish citizen Hadj Bairam Bolat who had been earlier deported from Kabardino-Balkaria.

May 03, 2007 22:22

• Case against Beslan power agents can be reconsidered

  Today, after their meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia, the women of Beslan left the North Ossetian SC building. Ms. Anneta Gadieva, co-chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, has reported the news by telephone.

May 02, 2007 23:10

• E. Kisriev: the mosque in Dagestan was attacked because of "internal showdowns"

  "The attack on 'Yuzhnaya' (Southern) mosque located in the outskirt of the capital of Dagestan committed at the end of March was caused by internal showdowns (conflicts) among the people engaged in servicing the mosque," Enver Kisriev, an employee of the Centre for Civilization and Regional Researches of the Russian Academy of Sciences, asserts.

May 02, 2007 23:01

• Moscow City Court postpones the case hearing of Stomakhin, supporter of Chechen separatists

  Today, the Moscow City Court has postponed consideration of the complaints lodged by the defence and accusation on the verdict to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web site of Chechen separatists.

May 02, 2007 23:00

• Georgia demands release of students detained in Abkhazia

  Georgia is ready to take serious steps to have the three Georgian students seized by Abkhazian separatists on March 1 in Shamgona village of the Zugdidi District released, Dmitri Kitoshvili, parliamentary secretary of the President of Georgia, has declared today on behalf of the latter.

May 02, 2007 22:20

• Russia and Azerbaijan share the 164th position in the rank of mass media freedom

  The Freedom House Human Rights Organization has made public its report on the freedom of mass media worldwide. In the rating by the level of mass media freedom Russia has shared position No. 164 with Azerbaijan, still ahead of Brunei, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Swaziland.

May 02, 2007 22:13

• North Ossetian SC refuses to bring Beslan power officials to responsibility

  The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has satisfied the complaint of the Russian State Office of Public Prosecutor on cancellation of the decision on non-initiation of a criminal case in relation to the members of the operative headquarters for saving the Beslan hostages.

April 28, 2007 18:11

• "Disagreement March" organizers in Nizhni Novgorod released

  Militia has dispersed a non-sanctioned "Disagreement March" in Nizhni Novgorod.

April 28, 2007 18:10

• ICRC representatives discuss interaction problems with Chechen authorities

  In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) met the leaders of the Republic.

April 28, 2007 18:06

• Public Prosecutor's Office stops investigation into Baisarov's murder

  The last November execution in Moscow of Movladi Baisarov, ex-commander of the FSB's "Gorets" (Mountaineer) operative and fighting regiment, who had joined the opposition to the then prime minister and today's President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, got its logical outcome on April 27.

April 28, 2007 18:02

• Georgian students throwing stones at peacemakers at the border with Abkhazia

  On April 27, students of Georgian higher schools held another protest action near the Russian peacemaking post on the border with Abkhazia.

April 28, 2007 17:55

• NGOs of Stavropol Territory: authorities ignore migrants' problems

  A roundtable on the topic "Integration Problems of Migrants into Local Community - Russian and Swiss Experiences" was held in Stavropol Territory.

April 27, 2007 22:32

• A helicopter with troopers crashed down in Chechnya

  A model Mi-8 helicopter of Ministry of Defence that was transporting rangers fell down in Chechnya.