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November 28, 2007 17:52

• Police stops action of young oppositionists in the capital of Azerbaijan

  Today, in the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, activists of the "Dalga" (Wave) youth oppositional movement were holding a protest action, which was stopped by the police.

November 28, 2007 17:44

• Two thousand Meskhetian Turks remain in Krasnodar Territory after US resettlement programme

  Human rights activist are concerned with the end on October 1, 2007, of the US resettlement programme for Meskhetian Turks who live in the Krasnodar Territory.

November 28, 2007 17:40

• Farid Babaev: campaign of the party in power in Dagestan rests exclusively on the "administrative resource"

  Leader of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party Farid Babaev, who died on November 24 from gunshot wounds, had stated, not long before the attempt on his life, that the pre-election campaign of the party in power in Dagestan reposes only on the use of the so-called "administrative resource".

November 28, 2007 17:35

• Prosecutor's office names those guilty of shipwrecks in the Kerch Strait

  Today, a session of the Board of the South Transport Prosecutor's Office on the issues of legislation observance by marine transport and operation of port complexes took place in Rostov-on-Don.

November 28, 2007 17:31

• Ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili arrested in Germany

  The "Berliner Zeitung" has reported today about the arrest in Berlin of one of the leaders of Georgian opposition, ex-Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili, accused by Georgian authorities of a number of crimes.

November 27, 2007 20:58

• Arrests of Wahhabites continue in Azerbaijan

  In the evening on November 25, employees of the Babek Police Unit of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan detained Tavakkyul Aliev and Gaim Dzhafaroglu in the Nekhram settlement.

November 27, 2007 20:51

• "Ren-TV" journalists are sure that they were attacked by special agents in Ingushetia

  The members of the filming crew of the "Ren-TV" Company who were kidnapped and beaten in Ingushetia at night of Saturday, January 24, are confident that they were attacked by employees of local special agencies.

November 27, 2007 20:46

• Refugees stay without electricity and heat in the capital of Chechnya

  For several days already, the Temporary Accommodation Centre for forced migrants, located in Michurin settlement of the Oktiabrskiy District of the city of Grozny, has been cut off from heat and electricity supplies.

November 27, 2007 20:36

• Azerbaijan: "Musavat" calls on the opposition to unite against repressions

  The "Musavat" opposition party has appealed to the oppositional forces of Azerbaijan with a proposal to set up the Resistance Movement for fighting against repressions of the authorities.

November 27, 2007 20:29

• "Cadet" sentenced to 10.5 years in prison for torturing a Chechnya resident

  Sergey Lapin, former officer of the Nizhnevartovsk District Militia Unit, who was found guilty of torturing a Chechnya resident, has been sentenced to 10.5 years of imprisonment.

November 27, 2007 20:22

• GPO of Azerbaijan starts investigation into the death of a lady-former political prisoner

  Faina Kungurova, a former activist of the Democratic Party, died on November 18 in the prison hospital of the Shuvalan SIZO. The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has informed about an investigation conducted into the death at imprisonment of Faina Kungurova.

November 27, 2007 20:11

• ChCNS demands release of Khidrievs accused of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  On November 26, the Chechen Committee of National Salvation made a statement with a demand to immediately release Amirkhan and Maksharip Khidrievs, natives of Ingushetia, who were detained by law enforcement bodies on a charge of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train.

November 26, 2007 11:58

• Ecologists: authorities have not started clearing the greater part of the coastal area of the Kerch Strait

  The reports of the authorities that the emergency situation in the Kerch Strait has been eliminated have nothing to do with reality.

November 26, 2007 11:55

• People in Dagestan are indignant at the murder of Academician Nariman Aliev

  Residents of Dagestan are indignant at the murder of Academician, Hero of Social Labour Nariman Aliev and his wife.

November 26, 2007 11:52

• Board of the "Memorial" Society has explained to its regional branches its attitude to State Duma elections

  Today, the Board of the Russian Society "Memorial" has sent a letter to its regional branches, in which the Society explains its attitude to the RF State Duma elections to take place on December 2, 2007.

November 26, 2007 11:48

• HRC "Memorial": people whom Farid Babaev unmasked stand behind his murder

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has published a necrology in memory of Farid Babaev, a public figure, human rights activist and candidate to the RF's State Duma from the "Yabloko" Party, who was killed on November 21, 2007, in Dagestan.

November 26, 2007 11:32

• Journalists of "Ren-TV" kidnapped and beaten in Ingushetia return to Moscow

  Journalists of the "24" news group of the "Ren-TV" Channel - Artyom Vysotskiy, Stanislav Goryachev and Karen Sakhinov, who had been detained in Nazran, have arrived to Moscow.

November 26, 2007 11:25

• Public Chamber dissatisfied with State Duma's little attention to NCOs

  The Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (RF) is dissatisfied with the State Duma: during the recent four years the legislators have failed to pass at least a law in support of the activities of non-commercial organizations and patrons of art.

November 26, 2007 11:19

• Chechnya's Government opens a campaign of population's moral upbringing

  The Government of Chechnya has developed a project of spiritual and moral education of the Republic's population. From this month on, students of higher schools of the Chechen Republic will wear special uniform, and girls will wear headscarves.

November 26, 2007 11:15

• Chechen human rights activists boil over Shamanov as Deputy Minister of Defence

  Appointment of Vladimir Shamanov, a former commander of one of military groupings in Chechnya, to the post of Deputy Minister of Defence of Russia has caused an extremely negative reaction among representatives of Chechen human rights organizations.