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21:03, 7 December 2005

Armenian graves desecrated in Stavropol territory

A criminal case is opened in the Stavropol territory with respect to desecration of 14 Armenian graves.

16:39, 7 December 2005

Russian military men attacked in Chechnya

Three federal servicemen are wounded in an attack in the mountainous district of Sharoi.

20:15, 6 December 2005

New bomb victims in Chechnya

A military truck triggers a bomb in the Vedeno district in the south of Chechnya and two servicemen are killed as a result.

00:47, 6 December 2005

Imam's abduction scene relocated

Chechnya's law enforcement agencies maintain that no one abducted an imam of a mosque in the district centre Achkhoi-Martan.

00:13, 6 December 2005

Extremists attack native of Armenia in Moscow

A native of Armenia sustains a wound in a fight with the use of cold steel in the southeast of Moscow.

12:51, 5 December 2005

Minister keeps his word, so far

Azerbaijan's Internal Affairs Minister punishes police officers for using force against journalists.

11:08, 5 December 2005

Torture confirmed in Kabardino-Balkaria

International human rights organisations and the leading global media receive photographs of people arrested in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, with marks of beating.

17:40, 3 December 2005

Local residents demanding imam's release

A spontaneous public meeting to protect Mr Ali Khaskhanov, an imam at a local mosque, abducted earlier today, is under way in Achkhoi-Martan.

17:36, 2 December 2005

Legislature denies executive pressure

The parliament of N Ossetia denies that the prosecutor's office exerted pressure on the commission on Beslan.

17:18, 2 December 2005

Violence against journalists to be punished

Azerbaijan's Internal Affairs Minister promises to punish the police officers who used force against journalists.

12:26, 1 December 2005

Police officer killed in Abkhazia

The body of an Abkhaz police officer, Fridon Jgerenaia, is found in the Gal district of Abkhazia.

12:09, 1 December 2005

Victims interrupt Kulayev case hearing

North Ossetia's Supreme Court declares a break in the hearing of the case of Mr Nurpashi Kulayev, a participant in the Beslan school attack.

12:08, 1 December 2005

Authorised public meeting may be declared crime

Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's Office opens a criminal case over the 26 November public meeting in Baku.

22:06, 30 November 2005

Head of administration, his son shot dead in Avtury

Unidentified attackers kill the Avtury head of administration, Ibrahim Umpashayev, and his 26-year-old son, Isa Umpashayev.

21:45, 30 November 2005

Several oppositionists disappear after dispersal

Five members of Azerbaijan's opposition parties are missing after the dispersal of the public meeting on 26 November.

21:20, 30 November 2005

Pamiatoi head of administration killed by Russian military man

The killing was committed by Dmitry Arnautov, a serviceman of the Shatoi district military commandant's office, a source says.

21:20, 29 November 2005

Beslan Mothers dissatisfied with parliamentary report

Ms Ella Kesayev, Chairwoman of the Beslan Mothers Committee, says the North Ossetian parliamentary commission's report on the events in Beslan on 1-3 September 2004 is "smoothed very much."

21:18, 29 November 2005

Minister's evidence fails to shed light

Interrogated at today's hearing of Mr Nurpashi Kulayev's case, Mr Kazbek Dzantiyev, former Internal Affairs Minister of North Ossetia, avoids giving answers.

21:16, 29 November 2005

University president violates human rights

A student is sent down at the Baku State University for taking part in opposition actions.

21:07, 28 November 2005

Chechnya's president to meet separatists

"Without peace, there is no creation, development is impossible, and democratic processes are impossible," Alu Alkhanov said.

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