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January 15, 2009 20:00

• Court releases Budanov and rejects complaint of Kungaev family

  The decision of the Dimitrovgrad City Court made the basis for conditional early relief (CER) of former colonel Yuri Budanov.

January 15, 2009 19:00

• ECtHR finds Russia guilty of disappearance of Ingush resident in 2004

  Today, the European Court on Human Rights has passed a decision on the case of Adam Medov, a resident of Karabulak, who disappeared in June 2004 (then he temporarily lived in Nazran). Adam Medov's wife was the applicant. According to the decision of European Court, Russia was found responsible for Medov's disappearance and obliged to pay 35,000 euros of compensation to his relatives.

January 15, 2009 18:00

• Young man kidnapped in Chechnya was beaten at ROVD

  The young man named Zaurbek Tagirov, who was kidnapped in Tsotsi-Yurt village, Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, had been prosecuted for several months by militiamen and them beaten after detention. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

January 14, 2009 23:00

• Armenia: Ombudsman confirms that oppositionists are tortured

  Ombudsman in Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has stated that oppositional activists are exposed to violence and even torture in the country's criminal corrective establishments (CCEs).

January 14, 2009 22:00

• Case on beating Azerbaijani citizen by militiaman in Nizhni Novgorod sent to court

  The criminal case initiated on beating Emil Dadashov, a citizen of Azerbaijan, by a militiaman of Nizhni Novgorod has arrived to the Nizhniy Novgorod District Court.

January 14, 2009 20:00

• Human rights activist from Chechnya asks Russian President to get into the case of former militant

  Aslambek Apaev, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, has addressed his open letter to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. The pretext was in the litigation against Abubakar Mezhiev, a resident of the Chechen Republic.

January 14, 2009 20:00

• European Court satisfies claims of three Armenian citizens

  Today, on January 14, the European Court on Human Rights has passed a decision to satisfy claims of Zhora Sapeyan, Sarkis Amiryan and Maxim Gasparyan. The Republic of Armenia shall pay three thousand euros to each claimant as compensation.

January 14, 2009 18:00

• In Kalmykia, colony inmates complain of beating

  The inmates of Corrective Colony OL 27/3 (light-security camp), located in Kalmykia, are beaten by employees of the Republic's Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (the so-called "UFSIN") on a regular basis. This was reported by public figure Valery Badmaev who referenced the prisoners themselves.

January 13, 2009 21:00

• "Freedom House": democracy in Armenia is regressing

  In the 2009 report "Freedom in the World" of the international human rights organization "Freedom House", published on January 12, Armenia is named a partially free country. The "Freedom House" notes that Armenia exhibits regress in the area of democratic freedoms.

January 13, 2009 21:00

• President of Chechnya disbelieves Budanov's repentance

  President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that he does not trust in Yuri Budanov's repentance, when making his comments on the decision of the court on conditional early relief (CER) of former colonel convicted for murdering a Chechen girl.

January 13, 2009 20:00

• Trial on the claim of Azerbaijani MIA head against human rights activist Yunus postponed

  The preparatory session of the Nasiminskiy District Court of Baku on the claim of Ramil Usubov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against human rights activist Leila Yunus, due to take place today, on January 13, was re-appointed on January 23.

January 13, 2009 19:00

• Eyewitness doubts that it was gas explosion in Nazran

  Vakha Chapanov, editor-in-chief of the IA "Maximum" and an eyewitness of the today's explosion in Nazran of the building of the Department of Court Marshals of Ingushetia, has expressed doubt that utility gas was the reason of the tragedy.

January 13, 2009 18:00

• Charitable Women's Hospital ousted in Dagestan

  From the start of this year, the Charitable Women's Hospital, located in Makhachkala at No. 3 Ermoshkina Street, was to abandon all the occupied premises, as prescribed by the decision of the Arbitration Court of Dagestan signed by Judge R. Khanbekov.

January 12, 2009 23:00

• Russia's UFSIN: radical Islam grows popular in prisons of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Ahmed Abidov, head of the Russian Corrective Administration (the so-called "UFSIN") for Kabardino-Balkaria, said in his speech at the parliamentary session that spread of religious extremism in the region as a whole and in prisons, in particular, is one of the most acute problems.

January 12, 2009 22:00

• President of Armenia pardons 9 convicts for disorders in Yerevan

  President of Armenia Serzh Sarkisyan has pardoned nine convicts accused of participating in mass disorders in Yerevan on March 1, 2008.

January 12, 2009 21:00

• Court takes office away from the Movement "For United Georgia"

  Today, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the demand of the Prosecutor's Office to transfer the building in Tbilisi housing the head office of the oppositional political movement "For United Georgia" into the state management.

January 12, 2009 20:00

• Ilgar Mamedov: suspension of foreign radio stations deprives Azerbaijanis of objective information

  Suspension in the new year of broadcasting of western radio stations has actually deprived citizens of Azerbaijan of the last source of objective information. This statement was made by independent political scientist Ilgar Mamedov, co-founder of the public association named "Republican Alternative - REAL".

January 12, 2009 19:00

• 124 complaints sent to European Court from Rostov Region

  The number of complaints sent from the town of Zverevo, Rostov Region, to the European Court on Human Rights, has already reached 124. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo.

January 12, 2009 18:00

• "Voice of Beslan" to lodge another complaint against Russia to Strasbourg

  The All-Russia Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" plans to continue investigating the terror act committed in September 2004. In February, the organization will send another initiative group of 60 persons to Strasbourg to register a new complaint against the state.

January 10, 2009 22:00

• Armenian army to be reformed in 2009

  This year, the Ministry of Defence of Armenia plans to reform the national army by changing its structure.