News

December 08, 2006 23:38

• Patrushev denies using polonium in Chechnya

  Statement by Akhmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists in London, about use by Russian special agencies of radioactive materials in Chechnya is a parcel of rubbish, Nikolai Patrushev, FSB director, has declared.

December 08, 2006 21:06

• State Duma has postponed introduction of juries in Chechnya till 2010

  The State Duma has made an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure in the third and final reading to postpone introduction of the court of jury in Chechnya till 2010.

December 08, 2006 21:03

• FSB knows from where Chechen separatists got their funds

  The FSB (Federal Security Bureau) of Russia has decoded the archives of Jordanian mercenary Abu Havs, one of Chechen separatists' leaders. He was killed in Khasavyurt.

December 08, 2006 21:01

• Verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev may be cancelled

  The Supreme Court has appointed to consider on December 26 possible cancellation of the verdict passed to Nurpashi Kulaev, the only survived participant of Beslan school seizure.

December 07, 2006 23:40

• Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia initiates a criminal case on Litvinenko's murder

  The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has initiated a criminal case on the fact of assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee.

December 07, 2006 23:36

• Anna Politkovskaya is awarded the "World Press Hero" title

  The International Press Institute (IRI) has awarded the title of the "World Free Press Hero" to Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously.

December 07, 2006 22:10

• Human rights activists are searching those guilty of death of Georgian native Manana Jabelia

  On December 6, the Independent Press Centre held a press conference on the death of Manana Jabelia, a forced migrant from Abkhazia.

December 07, 2006 22:08

• EU head expresses concern with the murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko

  Taria Halonen, president of Finland, called the situation with assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, who criticized the Kremlin policy in Chechnya and in Russia as a whole, to be alarming.

December 07, 2006 22:00

• PACE co-rapporteur calls Azerbaijani authorities to resume ANS TV Channel

  Tony Lloyd, rapporteur of the PACE monitoring committee for Azerbaijan, said in his interview to the BBC Radio that the administrative decision to stop the ANS TV Channel was "a very reactionary step."

December 06, 2006 23:23

• Many thousands strong nation-wide public rally held in Abkhazia

  Up to 40,000 persons from all cities and regions of Abkhazia arrived to the meeting. The government has provided free transport facilities to all who wanted to take part in the event.

December 06, 2006 23:18

• Azerbaijan is concerned with situation of Azerbaijanis in Russia

  Upon instruction of the president of Russia in relation to migrants, they have started to deport people who have no registration out of Russian cities. The decision is most strictly applied to citizens of Georgia, and part of them has already been deported from the country. Among them, there are also natives of Azerbaijan.

December 06, 2006 22:19

• Azerbaijani writers ask to release the journalist who has offended the Prophet

  In Azerbaijan, a group of writers are asking to release journalist Rafik Tagi who has published his anti-Islamic article in the "Senet" (Arts) newspaper from custody.

December 06, 2006 22:11

• Litvinenko poisoning: interrogation of Lugovoj postponed

  Interrogation of Andrei Lugovoj, a Scotland Yard's suspect of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko, that was tonight, has been postponed.

December 06, 2006 22:07

• R. Kadyrov: Russian militaries must respond for tortures and murders of Chechnya residents

  Ramzan Kadyrov, chairman of Chechnya government, has stated that he will strive to bring to responsibility the federal troops commanders in charge of murdered or missing peaceful citizens of Chechnya.

December 05, 2006 23:52

• "Reporters without Borders" condemned the appeal of Iranian clergy to massacre Azerbaijani journalists

  The International Organization "Reporters without Borders" has spread a document condemning an appeal of Iranian spiritual leaders to assassinate two journalists from Azerbaijan.

December 05, 2006 23:30

• Council of Europe is concerned with a death of Georgian woman in Moscow

  The Council of Europe is seriously concerned with the death of a Georgian woman, whom Russian authorities were about to deport from Moscow to Tbilisi.

December 05, 2006 23:02

• Litvinenko's body was given out to his relatives

  The body of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, has been handed over to his relatives for burial.

December 05, 2006 22:47

• Stephania Kulaeva: action plan on Gypsies' problems will allow improving their situation

  In the south of Russia, the rights of the Gipsy population are violated. First of all, it refers the right for obtaining education.

December 04, 2006 22:48

• Both prosecution and defence appeal against Stomakhin's verdict

  A five-year deprivation of freedom sentence passed to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web site and co-chairman of the Revolutionary Contact Association, was appealed against at the Moscow City Court both by defence and prosecution, Karen Nersesyan, his advocate, told.

December 04, 2006 22:45

• Head of Karelia appoints compensation to Kondopoga victims

  Sergey Katanandov, Karelia's head, has signed a prescription to allocate 350,000 roubles from his reserve fund on rendering assistance to families of casualties and other victims of Kondopoga disorders.