News

July 28, 2005 20:23

• New evidence given on Beslan

  New details are disclosed at a hearing of the Beslan terrorist act case.

July 27, 2005 10:46

• Mass detention in Chechnya

  About 100 are detained in a special operation in Argun.

July 27, 2005 10:42

• Blast kills two in Dagestan

  An explosion kills two and wounds one soldier in the republic.

July 26, 2005 10:11

• Beslan victims give evidence

  The hearing of the Beslan attack case continues in North Ossetia's Supreme Court.

July 25, 2005 16:54

• Dagestan 'new Caucasus front' - Der Standard

  The Chechen war is thought to be expanding into Dagestan.

July 25, 2005 10:48

• New police force sent to Dagestan

  Police officers from the Rostov region are arriving in Dagestan.

July 25, 2005 10:43

• Woman killed in train blast

  Another terrorist act kills a Dagestani woman.

July 25, 2005 10:37

• Missing in Chechnya

  Three people go missing over 24 hours in the republic.

July 23, 2005 09:57

• Police targeted in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Two traffic police officers are shot dead in Nalchik.

July 22, 2005 14:39

• Authorities persecute youth NGO leader

  Marina Zoloyeva criticized officers of the regional police department in a district newspaper.

July 22, 2005 14:13

• Bombing investigation - new details

  Law enforcers have identified the man who was in the car blown up on 19 July in the village of Znamenskoye.

July 22, 2005 13:37

• Borozdinovskaya residents leave Chechnya again

  The withdrawal of Ramzan Kadyrov's people from the village is named to be one of the reasons.

July 22, 2005 13:12

• Police officer, his relative shot dead

  The attack took place in the village of Chechen-Aul, Chechny'a Grozny district.

July 21, 2005 17:38

• Znamenskoye bombing death toll reaches 15

  Shamil Basayev is considered to be the main suspect in organizing the terror attack.

July 21, 2005 17:00

• 71 rebels killed in Chechnya in 2005

  Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov has announced the figure at the ministry's session devoted to the results of the ministry's work.

July 20, 2005 17:06

• Police try 'to wash away' human rights violations

  The regional ombudsman claims the Stavropol Regional Police Department does not make a legal assessment of the 11 June developments in Ivanovskoye.

July 20, 2005 16:24

• Over 30 servicemen allegedly killed in clash

  The Defense Ministry has refused to give comments on the reported death of GRU officers.

July 20, 2005 16:09

• Car blast leaves 14 dead

  The Chechen Interior Ministry's UAZ car was blown up on 19 July in Znamenskoye, Chechnya's Nadterechny district.

July 19, 2005 14:23

• Government gives no comments on European Court ruling

  On 14 July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) denied a request of the Russian government to review judgments on the applications of six residents of Chechnya.

July 19, 2005 13:15

• Mi 8 crash caused by crew's fault

  "It has been established that there was neither equipment failure nor fire attack," said a source close to the investigation committee.