News

April 18, 2007 23:30

• "The Other Russia" received about 50 complaints from victims of "Disagreement Marches" dispersals

  About 90 percent of those who suffered from dispersals of the so-called "Disagreement Marches" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg are going to appeal against the actions of law enforcement bodies.

April 18, 2007 23:26

• Weapons and ammunition are still found in territory of Chechnya

  During the last 24 hours, employees of power agencies have found two hiding places with weapons and ammunition in Grozny and Urus-Martan District of Chechnya.

April 18, 2007 23:20

• Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, tortured by militia, appeal against verdict

  Mr. Bulatov and Mr. Dambegov, residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who were tortured at the so-called "T-Centre," have appealed against their District Court's verdict.

April 18, 2007 22:49

• People in Chechnya are indignant of Rogozin's words about Ulman's kidnapping

  Chechen residents treat the utterances of Dmitri Rogozin, Russian State Duma Deputy, that Captain Ulman and his two subordinates could have been kidnapped by Chechens as "complete ramble" and "fiction."

April 18, 2007 22:00

• Village shelled in the Galskiy District of Abkhazia

  On April 12, the village named Vtoroe Otobaya, Galskiy District, Abkhazia, was attacked by fire.

April 17, 2007 23:21

• PEN-Centre protests against beating journalists during "Disagreement Marches"

  The International Writers' Organization "Russian PEN-Centre" has expressed its serious concern of and protest against the force methods used by law enforcement bodies against the journalists who performed their professional duties during the actions of opposition in the streets of the Russian capital on April 14.

April 17, 2007 23:19

• South Ossetia will bring custody conditions close to world standards

  A complex work to improve custody conditions will be implemented in South Ossetia.

April 17, 2007 23:16

• Trial on Kislovodsk Imam murder will continue in Pyatigorsk

  The next court session on the assassination case of Imam of the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) will take place on April 23 at 11 a.m. in the premises of the Pyatigorsk City Court.

April 17, 2007 22:20

• Trial of militants who committed raid on Ingushetia in 2004 begins

  On April 16, the Supreme Court of the Republic Ingushetia started to consider the criminal case of 12 defendants accused of a terrorist attack on the Republic in June 2004.

April 17, 2007 22:10

• Nukhazhiev: Ulman disappeared for the fault of the Court

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Human Rights Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic, made a special statement concerning disappearance of a group of militaries from special troops of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (known as "GRU") accused of murdering peaceful residents.

April 16, 2007 23:10

• Ulman's case defendants could have been kidnapped

  State Duma Deputy Dmitri Rogozin thinks that the three defendants in Ulman's case who failed to appear at the court session last week, could have been kidnapped.

April 16, 2007 23:05

• Stanislav Dmitrievsky: solution of Chechen problems is impossible without changing power in Russia

  The problems of Chechnya and North Caucasus cannot be settled without changing Russian political regime. Stanislav Dmitrievsky, leader of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, liquidated in Russia by court ruling, expressed this opinion to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2007 22:05

• Choltaev: Kadyrov's kin retinue will deprive him of reliable support

  "Ramzan Kadyrov's signing of a decree on the national policy of the Chechen Republic (ChR) was dictated by his wish to show that Chechnya is a full-fledged part of Russia," Zaindi Choltaev, a Chechen political scientist, thinks.

April 16, 2007 22:02

• Militiamen shoot down a road accident participant in Chechnya

  The Office of Public Prosecutor of one of the Districts of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, has excited a criminal case on the fact of assassination by a militiaman of a minivan driver.

April 16, 2007 22:00

• Russian MFA welcomes UN Security Council's resolution on Abkhazian-Georgian conflict

  On April 13, the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC) unanimously adopted the resolution on a six-month extension of the mandate of the UN Mission for Monitoring in Georgia (UNMMG) in the Abkhazian-Georgian conflict zone till October 15, 2007.

April 14, 2007 23:12

• Rasul Kudaev, prisoner in Kabardino-Balkaria, complains of tortures to Prosecutor Chaika

  On Friday, April 13, the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) extended the custody term for Rasul Kudaev, prisoner of the Nalchik pre-trial facility ("SIZO"), till this October.

April 14, 2007 23:07

• Ingushetian MIA claims prevention of a number of terror acts

  Today in Ingushetia, agents of law enforcement bodies have detected a large hiding place with 12 powerful explosives ready to use, and plenty of ammunition.

April 14, 2007 22:51

• Victims themselves promise to find Ulman's case defendants

  Minkail Ezhiev, representative of the victim party in litigation on Ulman's case and head of the Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic, has stated that the victim party will apply maximum efforts to find the missing defendants.

April 14, 2007 22:10

• Peacemakers: Georgia concentrates MIA units close to South Ossetia

  Actually, Georgia is increasing the strength of its MIA units in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. This conclusion was made by the Monitoring Group of the Mixed Peacemaking Forces (MPMF) in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone and OSCE Mission officers.

April 14, 2007 22:00

• "Disagreement March" held in Russia

  Today, Moscow has become the venue of a sanctioned meeting of Kremlin-oppositionist organizations from "The Other Russia" coalition.