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January 30, 2006 13:34

• Georgian Minister: "Georgia is ready to receive Meskhetian Turks"

  State Minister of Georgia George Haindrava announced at his press conference, that Georgia is ready to receive people deported from Meskhetia in 1944.

January 28, 2006 16:36

• The European Court of Human Rights starts examining application of Kabardino-Balkaria residents

  Some residents of Tyrnyauz city, Kabardino-Balkaria have received European Court notification that the court has started examining their case.

January 27, 2006 16:12

• Muslim opposition problem farmed out to law enforcement agencies - Dorogova

  An interview with Larissa Dorogova, the lawyer who represents Muslim oppositionists in Kabardino-Balkaria.

January 26, 2006 16:06

• Security operatives give evidence in Beslan case

  A FSB officer tells about talks with the terrorists at the trial of Nurpashi Kulayev in North Ossetia.

January 25, 2006 14:40

• Beslan case unlikely to be investigated — Beslan Voice

  School No 1 in Beslan was not a random choice as claimed by special agencies, victims insist.

January 25, 2006 14:37

• Shady action against rights defender

  A human rights activist who has applied to the European Court of Human Rights concerning abduction by police officers is on trial in Dagestan.

January 25, 2006 10:11

• Human Rights First Condemns False Accusations against Russian Human Rights Organizations

  A statement by a leading human rights organisation concerning the recent attacks on human rights defenders in Russia.

January 24, 2006 22:08

• ECHR applicants' relative tortured in Chechnya

  The Human Rights Centre Memorial receives information that beating and torture are used in Chechnya against a relative of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights.

January 23, 2006 21:57

• Television discredits human rights defenders

  The Moscow Helsinki Group chair denies allegations of its being involved in espionage against Russia.

January 23, 2006 21:47

• Police officer killed in Dagestan

  One police officer is killed and another one is wounded in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

January 20, 2006 19:08

• People continue to disappear in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Another resident of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Zaur Pshigotyzhev, has gone missing, unofficial sources say.

January 20, 2006 19:04

• Removed prisoner lost again

  Mr Rasul Kudayev, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is found not to be in the White Swan prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

January 19, 2006 19:01

• New law stifles independent civil society - AI

  Amnesty International regrets that President Putin has approved amendments to laws regulating NGO operation in Russia.

January 19, 2006 18:59

• Witnesses fail to come

  No witness comes to the Kulayev trial, including Ingush ex-president Ruslan Aushev and businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev.

January 18, 2006 18:57

• Caucasians hated most among ethnic minorities

  There were around 25 killings and more than 200 assaults on an ethnic basis last year, says a human rights defender.

January 18, 2006 18:54

• Eleven killed, wounded in Chechnya

  Six Russian military men are killed and five are wounded in Chechnya on 16-17 January, according to a France-Presse source.

January 18, 2006 18:49

• Chechen refugees rush for Europe

  Mr Kadyrov once said that those who refused to come back to Chechnya were "criminals and terrorists," Prague Watchdog reports.

January 17, 2006 19:47

• Abducted Chechen released after torture

  There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.

January 17, 2006 19:43

• Controversial evidence in Kulayev case

  Andrei Gagloyev, commander of the engineering troops of the 58th army, gives evidence at the Beslan attack case trial.

January 16, 2006 19:37

• Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner found in Piatigorsk

  Rasul Kudayev accused of taking part in the 13 October 2005 events in Kabardino-Balkaria is kept in a prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.