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September 24, 2007 10:55

• Bagapsh: human rights activists should take care of captured Abkhazian frontier guards

  President of Abkhazia has informed that negotiations on releasing Abkhazian border servicemen are conducted with Thomas Hammerberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and with those international structures who should deal with it.

September 24, 2007 10:50

• Abkhazian Ministry of Defence: Georgian militaries shot dead two Abkhazian prisoners

  Sources in Abkhazia are asserting that two Abkhazian servicemen were executed by Georgian militaries already after capture, and they had rendered no resistance.

September 24, 2007 10:44

• Ingushetia.Ru: crimes are not registered in the Republic

  Everywhere in Ingushetia, local militia bodies are obeying to the oral order of Musa Medov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI), not to register crimes connected with bombardments, explosions and other acts of terror.

September 24, 2007 10:34

• Deputy of Ichkerian Parliament kidnapped in Chechnya is at large

  Vagap Tutakov, former special representative of Aslan Maskhadov in Strasbourg and a deputy of the Chechen Parliament of 1997 convocation, kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10 in the southwest of the Republic, has been released.

September 22, 2007 15:09

• Encoding of mobile telephone conversations lifted in Adygea

  On the eve of the celebrations dedicated to Adygea's accession to Russia, along with the whole system of law and order protection activities, preventive security measures are taken in various spheres.

September 22, 2007 15:06

• Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria discusses xenophobia issues

  A roundtable was held at the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre dedicated to xenophobia issues. Denga Khalidov, Corresponding Fellow of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences of Russia, took part in the debates.

September 22, 2007 15:03

• Homes of Chechen natives searched in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  On September 21, under the criminal case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, members of law enforcement bodies conducted searches of several houses of the Chechen natives who live in the Chudov District of the Novgorod Region.

September 22, 2007 14:59

• MIA of Chechnya: "Riyadus Salikhijn" was not involved in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  The "Riyadus Salikhijn" grouping, which has again declared itself to be responsible for blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, was liquidated and could not have committed this terror act, Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, has stated.

September 22, 2007 14:55

• Broadcasts on Islam are put off the air in Azerbaijan

  Cases have recently become frequent in Azerbaijan, when broadcasts on religious topics are urgently taken out of television programs. Thus, the ANS TV channel has cancelled a popular broadcast "Allah Khaggy" (Swear by Allah).

September 21, 2007 19:18

• Picket dated to the eighth anniversary of Ryazan events held in Moscow

  The "Day of Mistrust" - a picket against the war in Chechnya dated to the eighth anniversary of the "FSB exercise" in Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999, was held in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow.

September 21, 2007 19:12

• Kabardino-Balkaria: relatives ask to increase food parcels to persons on remand during Ramadan holiday

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, relatives of the defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have filed a petition to A. Yu. Sovrulin, head of the investigatory group of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South federal District (SFD), asking to increase food parcels to the inmates.

September 21, 2007 19:09

• Ali Insanov accuses Azerbaijani President of frauds

  Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has accused President Ilham Aliev of appropriation of "oil" money and setting up the military-police regime in the country.

September 21, 2007 19:01

• Arrested journalist Sakit Zakhidov went on hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  Satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov, an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is now in custody, has started a hunger strike.

September 20, 2007 19:59

• Miner dies during protest action in Rostov Region

  In the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, a participant of the picket of former miners who demanded from local authorities to respect their social rights and guarantees deceased.

September 20, 2007 19:47

• Politkovskaya is posthumously awarded the American "For Development of Democracy" Award

  Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," has been posthumously awarded the annual American Award "For Development of Democracy."

September 20, 2007 19:37

• Human rights activists: authorities evade responsibility for forced migrants in Northern Caucasus

  On September 18 in Moscow, the Independent Press Centre held a roundtable "Obligations of the State before Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the Way the State Observes Them."

September 20, 2007 19:31

• After meeting in Nazran, situation in Ingushetia has stabilized

  The situation in the Ingush city of Nazran, where on September 19 clashes burst out between the residents of Ingushetia who rallied to a spontaneous protest meeting and the militia, is now more stable.

September 20, 2007 19:26

• Fate of Vagap Tutakov kidnapped in Chechnya still unknown

  The exact whereabouts and fate of Vagap Tutakov, a former deputy of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10, are still not established.

September 19, 2007 11:24

• President of South Ossetia: "Peace March" has failed

  Eduard Kokoity, President of the Republic of South Ossetia, has stated: "The attempt to hold the so-called 'Peace March' has completely failed."

September 19, 2007 11:20

• Kalyonov and Zelenyuk gave recognizance not to leave

  The St-Petersburg anarchists Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk gave recognizance not to leave; and their criminal prosecution in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.