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September 19, 2007 11:15

• Hundreds join the protest action in Ingushetia

  The number of the participants of the spontaneous meeting, held today in Ingushetia with a demand to release the two local residents kidnapped yesterday, is permanently increasing, and by 2 p.m. it has reached some 700-800 persons.

September 19, 2007 11:10

• Bodies of the terrorists killed in Dagestan will not be given out to relatives

  Today, Igor Tkachov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, has stated that the burial of Rappani Khalilov and Nabi Nabiev, murdered in the course of a special operation, will take place without giving out the bodies to relatives.

September 19, 2007 11:06

• Defendant in murder case of Stavropol students was under moral pressure

  Andrei Keilin, accused of murdering two students on June 3 in Stavropol and released from custody on September 16, was put under moral pressure.

September 18, 2007 21:46

• Azerbaijani Supreme Court satisfies oppositionist's claim against MIA

  The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has passed a decision to cancel the 2004 decisions of the Nasiminskiy and Appeal Courts on the claims of Sardar Dzhalaloglu, leader of the Democratic Party.

September 18, 2007 21:41

• Sagalaev: RAO "EES Rossii" and LUKOIL will destroy the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain

  The activities of the Russian Open Joint Stock Company (RAO) "EES Rossii" and realization of the plans of the LUKOIL Company will inevitably bring to ruin the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, concludes V. A. Sagalaev, Doctor of Biology.

September 18, 2007 21:37

• Advocates demand to return the case on Kondopoga fight back to prosecutor's office

  At the process on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga that had provoked mass disorders, the advocates of Chechen defendants have again demanded to return the case back to the prosecutor's office.

September 18, 2007 21:34

• Former miners go on hunger strike in Rostov Region

  22 former miners from Maiskiy settlement in the Rostov Region have announced a dry hunger strike.

September 18, 2007 21:30

• Didigov, suspect in "Neva-Express" case, arrested again

  The prosecutor's office has re-arrested Khasan Didigov, a suspect of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train who was released today, as his advocate Murad Yunusov has reported.

September 18, 2007 21:25

• Residents of Borozdinovskaya move to Kizlyar District of Dagestan

  Over 130 refugees from Borozdinovskaya village, who live in the "Nadezhda" (Hope) tent camp, have started their resettlement to the Kizlyar District Dagestan, where they had been allotted land estates for individual housing construction.

September 18, 2007 21:21

• FSB Department for Dagestan officially confirms Khalilov's death

  According to the statement of Vyacheslav Shanshin, head of the FSB Department for Dagestan, "liquidation of Rappani Khalilov was a logic end of a complex of operative actions accomplished under direction of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia."

September 17, 2007 21:11

• Woman-civilian killed in Dagestan during special operation

  Today at about 6:40 p.m., a special operation was undertaken in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) with the aim to detain and liquidate members of Askhab Bidaev's armed formation. One militiaman and a civilian woman were killed in the skirmish.

September 17, 2007 21:08

• Real estate transactions of Georgian refugees in Abkhazia to be considered by the PACE

  Georgiy Kheviashvili, Minister for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation of Georgia, held a meeting on September 16 with Kastrio Islami, Rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

September 17, 2007 21:05

• Doku Umarov's associate murdered in Chechnya

  In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

September 17, 2007 21:02

• Andrei Keilin released

  On September 16, Andrei Keilin, who was in custody on suspicion of murdering students Dmitri Blakhin and Pavel Chadin on June 3 in Stavropol, has been released.

September 17, 2007 20:57

• Agasi Enokyan: negotiation process on Karabakh settlement is fruitless

  Making his comments on the present situation in the negotiating process aimed to settle the Karabakh conflict, political scientist Agasi Enokyan, Director of the Armenian Centre for Political and International Studies, has informed journalists about the deadlock in the negotiating process.

September 17, 2007 20:54

• Armenia: Prosecutor's Office and human rights activists speak about tortures of witnesses in the murder case of Lori prosecutor

  Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, has stated that as a result of operative-investigatory actions conducted under the murder case of Albert Kazaryan, Public Prosecutor of the Lori District, other crimes can be opened, namely, application of violence towards the witnesses figuring in the case.

September 15, 2007 12:21

• Detainees on suspicion of murdering the family of the Russian teacher released in Ingushetia

  Iles Dolgiev who was detained on suspicion of committing the murder of Anatoly Draganchuk and his sons Mikhail and Denis on August 31, 2007, has been released.

September 15, 2007 12:17

• The fact of Shamil Buraev's detention confirmed by "Novaya Gazeta"

  People from the editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta," where journalist Anna Politkovskaya had worked, have confirmed that Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, was detained on suspicion of being involved in Politkovskaya's murder.

September 15, 2007 12:13

• International organization to file a suit to the Hague Tribunal against President of South Ossetia

  Representatives of the Tbilisi-based international organization "Solidarity Centre" are going to lodge a lawsuit to the Hague Tribunal against Eduard Kokoity, President of non-recognized Republic of South Ossetia.

September 15, 2007 12:09

• Indigenous population of Ingushetia will guard Russians' houses at night

  Local residents of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, Ingushes by nationality, have made a decision to organize night patrol of the village houses where Russian families live.