News

January 30, 2007 23:09

• Georgia agrees to hold JSC session in South Ossetia

  The Georgian party has again confirmed its readiness to take part in an informal meeting of the co-chairmen of the Joint Supervisory Commission (JSC) for settling the South Ossetian conflict, which is planned for the second decade of February.

January 30, 2007 23:05

• RF Supreme Court to consider the case of Badalov and Ahmetkhanov, Chechnya natives

  At 10 a.m. on January 31, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) will consider the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, lodged in protest to the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the Russian Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict in relation to two Chechnya natives and their helpers, convicted by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and ammunition possession.

January 30, 2007 22:22

• Human rights defenders of Krasnodar Territory complain of power agencies' pressure

  Human rights activists from the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANCO) "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" assert that they are under pressure exerted on them by members of power agencies of the Krasnodar Territory.

January 29, 2007 23:17

• Two servicemen killed during a collision in Chechnya

  Two servicemen of federal troops and one militant were killed in a skirmish in the mountainous Shatoj District of Chechnya.

January 29, 2007 23:12

• "Russian March" marched over Russia again

  On January 28, a meeting organized by the participants of the scandalously known "Russian March."

January 29, 2007 23:11

• Abkhazian refugees threaten to hold mass protest actions in Georgia

  The Party "We Ourselves" has expressed its support to the refugees from Abkhazia, who have been deprived their jobs at night today, when the authorities have forbidden street traders and kiosk owners to trade near the "Gotseridze" underground station in the capital of Georgia.

January 29, 2007 23:06

• "Demos" Centre: the situation with human rights in Chechnya has not changed

  Tortures, kidnappings, murders and various other violations of human rights continue in Chechnya. This is the topic of the report disseminated by the "Demos" Moscow Information-Analytical Centre.

January 29, 2007 22:39

• Indictees of blowing up Grozny-Moscow train have not admitted their guilt

  The defendants in the case of blowing up the Grozny-Moscow train deny their guilt, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the case figurants, has reported.

January 27, 2007 23:59

• Committee for defence of Mr. Sadagatoglu's rights founded in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan has founded the Committee in defence of the rights of Samir Sadagatoglu, editor-in-chief of the "Sanat" newspaper.

January 27, 2007 23:58

• British authorities count "Litvinenko's case" solved

  The British authorities have reported that the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB officer, may be regarded cleared.

January 27, 2007 23:56

• Sandro Girgvliani's family to hold a protest action in the capital of Georgia

  Today, it is one year from the date of murder of Sandro Girgvliani, a servant of the Bank of Georgia.

January 27, 2007 23:52

• A Chechnya lady-refugee kidnapped from a TRC in Ingushetia

  Today in the afternoon (about 1:30 p.m. Moscow time), Ms. Chabieva, Malika Mikhailovna, born in 1969, a refugee from Chechnya, was kidnapped by unknown armed persons in masks from the Temporary Residence Centre (TRC), located in the village of Sleptsovskaya, Republic of Ingushetia, in the territory of "Mekhstroj."

January 27, 2007 23:49

• Mass arrests of Gipsies practiced in Volgograd Region

  In the city of Volzhsk, Volgograd Region, Gypsies have been arrested on a mass basis since January 24.

January 26, 2007 23:31

• The second witness in "Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case" stated that he had slandered his commander

  On Friday, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court continued interrogation of prosecution witnesses in the case of two officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federations accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya.

January 26, 2007 23:18

• A deported citizen of Georgia dies in Russia

  Zurab Muzoshvili, a Georgian citizen, whom the authorities had intended to deport home, died in the reception-distribution centre of the city of Saratov, the Rustavi 2 TV Channel reported on Friday.

January 26, 2007 21:11

• Human rights defenders: ethnic discrimination continues in the Krasnodar Territory

  The 2006 report on violations of human rights in the Krasnodar Territory evidences a growth of pressure on civil activists and continuation of ethnic discrimination.

January 26, 2007 21:08

• Kadyrov: presidency in Chechnya is not actual for me

  Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of the Chechen government (prime minister), has expressed his bewilderment with publications and utterances of certain politicians and experts about his soon inauguration as Chechnya president.

January 26, 2007 12:22

• Court rejects the first of 42 suits of Chechnya residents to RF Defence Ministry

  Today, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has defeated the first one out of the 42 claims of the residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).

January 25, 2007 23:23

• Ingushetian court defeats a claim to the authorities who dispersed the picket in memory of Politkovskaya

  The Nazran District Court of Ingushetia has rejected the claim of the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People demanding to qualify as illegal the actions of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran who prohibited to hold a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.

January 25, 2007 22:17

• Criminal case opened against analyst of separatists' "Chechenpress" agency

  A criminal case has been initiated in relation to Andrei Novikov, independent journalists from the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, and permanent author of materials in the web site "Chechenpress" of non-recognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, under point 1, Article 280 of RF Criminal Code, for "sending two electronic letters with "extremist," in the opinion of prosecution, materials to local newspapers."