News

January 16, 2006 19:34

• Killed rebels' parents willing to know their sons' bodies safe

  Parents of rebels killed on 13 October 2005 ask Kabardino-Balkaria's Prosecutor Yuri Ketov for an opportunity to make certain that their sons' bodies are safe.

January 16, 2006 19:24

• Bomb wounds teenager

  A 16-year-old boy is wounded because of the explosion of an unidentified device in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

January 16, 2006 18:59

• Four wounded in Chechnya

  Four contract soldiers are seriously wounded in a blast of a military truck in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district.

January 13, 2006 19:16

• Beslan Voice challenges federal officials

  The Beslan Voice public organisation makes a statement demanding that some federal officials give evidence and even prove their innocence.

January 13, 2006 18:47

• Abduction in Chechnya

  A Mairtup, Kurchaloi district, resident is abducted in the republic.

January 12, 2006 18:29

• N Ossetia's ex-president finally gives evidence

  Mr Dzasokhov claims that there was no information about a terrorist act planned in the republic.

January 12, 2006 18:19

• IHF: Ingush residents tortured in custody in N Ossetia

  The International Helsinki Federation is concerned about increasingly frequent cases of torture with respect to residents of Ingushetia.

January 11, 2006 19:08

• Rebel surrenders in Chechnya

  A member of illegal armed groups gives himself up to Chechen law enforcement agencies.

January 11, 2006 19:05

• Two abducted in Abkhazia's Gal district

  The republic's internal affairs minister says that this is done by Georgian special services to destabilise the situation in the bordering Gal district.

January 11, 2006 19:01

• Seven Russian soldiers killed in one day in Chechnya

  Seven Russian servicemen were killed and seven were wounded in Chechnya in 24 hours from 9 to 10 January.

January 10, 2006 16:03

• Caucasus on fire

  There are international terrorist network cells in all regions in the South federal district, according to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

January 10, 2006 15:44

• Brothers abducted in Chechnya

  Besides, a 16-year-old boy disappears from Avtury, Shali district.

January 09, 2006 17:50

• Georgian police detain Russian peacekeepers commander

  The car in which Colonel Kazantsev and three more people, including the wife of the commander, were driving was detained in the centre of Zugdidi.

January 09, 2006 17:47

• Prisoner disappears from jail

  Mr Rasul Kudayev, charged with taking part in the rebel attack on Nalchik, disappears from the temporary detention isolator in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

January 09, 2006 17:43

• Federal column attacked in Chechnya

  Two federal servicemen were killed and another five sustained wounds in the Kurchaloi district.

January 08, 2006 18:35

• Two missing found dead

  The bodies of two police officers are found, thought earlier to have gone missing on the first day of the operation for detention of rebels in Dagestan's Untsukul district.

January 08, 2006 18:33

• Three Nalchik attack partakers killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Two of the three rebels killed during today's special operation in the Lesken district may be foreign citizens.

January 06, 2006 20:34

• Torture issue raised again in Georgia

  The chairman of the Georgian Justice Ministry's Penalty Enforcement Department is accused of organising torture and killings of prisoners.

January 06, 2006 20:26

• Covert move against opposition

  Azerbaijan's education minister has ordered heads of national higher education institutions to fire teachers sympathising with the opposition, a source says.

January 06, 2006 20:24

• 'Federal forces were attacking a deserted base,' says expert

  The officer reminds that a group of Dagestani policemen were suddenly ambushed near the tunnel several months ago.