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December 13, 2006 23:14

• International organizations welcome renewal of ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan

  The OSCE Baku office and the representative of this organization for the freedom of press have positively accepted the decision to resume broadcasting of the ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan.

December 13, 2006 22:15

• Court session on dispersal of picket in memory of Politkovskaya appointed on December 15

  At 4:00 p.m. on December 15, the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI) will start considering an application lodged by the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People on illegal decision of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran, which had prohibited a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 this year, and actions of the Interior Department of Nazran and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia who violently dispersed the protest action.

December 13, 2006 22:12

• Culture Centre to be opened in burnt-down restaurant in Kondopoga

  The "Chaika" restaurant in the town of Kondopoga, which was burnt down in the course of mass disorders in September, will be rebuilt into a culture-leisure youth centre.

December 13, 2006 22:08

• Widow of journalist killed in Azerbaijan was granted political asylum in Norway

  Rushana Guseinova, widow of Elmar Guseinov, assassinated journalist, received political asylum in Norway, and together with her son Aslan is already in the territory of this country.

December 12, 2006 23:24

• Trial of Pyatigorsk imam continues in Stavropol Territory

  In the course of court sessions on the case of Anton (Abdullah) Stepanenko, imam of Pyatigorsk mosque (Stavropol Territory), the defence evidences are now considered.

December 12, 2006 23:21

• Interpol comes down to Litvinenko's case

  Timur Lakhonin, head of the Russian Interpol Bureau, has reported that this organization is now engaged in the inquiry into Litvinenko's case.

December 12, 2006 23:19

• Law higher school student kidnapped in Chechnya capital

  In the Staropromyslovskiy District of the capital of Chechnya, members of unidentified power agencies have kidnapped Salambek Omarov, 20, a local citizen and a third-year student of the Law Department of the Gudermes Branch of the Makhachkala Institute.

December 12, 2006 22:07

• In November, Russia deported 940 natives of Georgia

  In November, Russia deported more Georgian citizens that during three previous months altogether.

December 12, 2006 22:00

• Ulman hopes for acquittal

  Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has started a trial on Ulman's case.

December 11, 2006 23:18

• Azerbaijan will resume ANS TV Channel broadcasting

  Operation of the ANS TV and Radio Company will restart in Azerbaijan. The Company itself has informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the fact. In the words of Ms. Sevil Nurieva, one of the leading journalists of the Channel, the decision has been made today by the National Board for Television and Radio Broadcasting (NBTRB).

December 11, 2006 23:15

• Most of Beslan victims did not appeal against Kulaev's verdict

  Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the victims of Beslan school seizure in September 2004, has stated that most of his clients find the sentence to Nurpashi Kulaev to be just and fair.

December 11, 2006 22:27

• 98.58 percent has voted for Nagorny Karabakh constitution

  On December 10, Nagorny Karabakh held a referendum on its constitution, which was attended, as of the data on 7:30 p.m. of December 10, by 83.71 percent of those eligible for voting.

December 11, 2006 22:24

• Litvinenko's relatives make conditions to meet investigators from Russia

  The relatives and friends of Alexander Litvinenko who live in Great Britain are ready to meet the investigators of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office, but only provided their safety is guaranteed.

December 11, 2006 22:15

• Russian human rights activists will demand cancellation of the NGO Law

  Russian human rights activists will strive for cancellation the Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as being non-constitutional. The decision was made on Sunday at the 2nd Congress of Human Rights Activists in Moscow.

December 09, 2006 23:00

• Russian Public Prosecutor's Office sending its investigators into Litvinenko's case to Great Britain

  The Russian Public Prosecutor's Office plans to send its investigators engaged in the case of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, to Great Britain.

December 09, 2006 22:56

• Deportees from Russia brought to Georgia

  Early on Saturday, December 9, more than 70 Georgian citizens deported from Russia were brought by a special air flight of Georgian Airways to Tbilisi.

December 09, 2006 22:51

• Human rights activists doubt of Russia's fulfilment of the UN Committee Against Tortures' recommendation

  On December 8, the Internet Hall of the Central House of Journalists hosted a press conference of the Coalition of Russian Human Rights Organizations dedicated to publication of final recommendations adopted by the UN Committee Against Tortures.

December 09, 2006 22:42

• Politkovskaya posthumously awarded an ombudsman's medal

  Vladimir Lukin, human rights commissioner (ombudsman) in the Russian Federation, has held today, on the eve of the International Day for Human Rights Defence, a decoration ceremony with his medal "Hurry Up to Make Good."

December 09, 2006 22:35

• International Helsinki Federation requests to investigate detention circumstances of amnestied persons in Ingushetia

  The International Helsinki Federation (IHF) is concerned with illegal detainment and initiation of a criminal case against Mokhdan Elgakaev and Myukhdi Aslambekov, residents of Ingushetia who were acquitted from criminal responsibility.

December 08, 2006 23:50

• Kabardino-Balkaria: criminal case initiated against members of the Department for Fighting Terrorism

  The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt from unofficial sources that the prosecutor's office of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has initiated a criminal case against unidentified employees of the "T" Centre under Article "Excess of official powers with application of violence and special means."