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December 27, 2007 17:52

• 28 illegal migrants from Chechnya detained in the Polish-Czech border

  28 Chechens have been detained in Poland in the Warsaw-Vienna "Polonia" international express train; they tried to illegally cross the Czech border.

December 27, 2007 17:49

• Rabbi's house attacked in Derbent, Dagestan

  Today at night unknown persons have thrown stones over the house of Ovadiya Isakov, Rabbi of the city of Derbent. In the context of recent frequent attacks on representatives of the Jewish community of Dagestan, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has published a special statement.

December 27, 2007 17:47

• Well-known writers ask about conditional release of Stomakhin

  The Russian PEN-Centre, the Russian branch of the PEN-Club writers' international human rights organization have petitioned about early conditional release of Boris Stomakhin, a publicist of the "Kavkaz-Centre" Chechen separatists' website.

December 27, 2007 17:44

• Khudyakov and Arakcheev found guilty of murdering three Chechnya residents

  The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has found officers of Internal Troops Sergey Arakcheev and Evgeniy Khudyakov guilty of murdering three persons, residents of Chechnya.

December 27, 2007 17:42

• Azerbaijan: investigation into the death of former political prisoner completed

  The investigation of the fact of death at the prison hospital in Azerbaijan of former political prisoner Faina Kungurova is over. The case is closed since the final conclusion runs that she died a natural death.

December 27, 2007 17:35

• Investigation into felling of relic forest starts in Krasnodar Territory

  In the Krasnodar Territory, they are now investigating the fact of cutting out a section of the relic forest in the territory of the wildlife reserve "Bolshoi Utrish" (city-resort of Anapa). However, ecologists fear that no efficient measures will be applied to those guilty.

December 26, 2007 13:34

• Murder of nine hunters solved in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Boris Salmaksov, head of the Chief Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, has reported today that in Kabardino-Balkaria the murder of nine hunters and huntsmen has been solved, the accused criminals have been announced into federal search.

December 26, 2007 13:31

• Charges presented to suspects of blowing up the bus in Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol Territory

  The Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South Federal District has indicted the two detainees suspected of blowing up the Pyatigorsk-Stavropol bus committed in the city of Nevinnomyssk.

December 26, 2007 13:29

• Opposition accuses Saakashvili and Georgian authorities of telephone terrorism

  On December 25, at a press conference of representatives of the united opposition on the topic of political terror, Koba Davitashvili, leader of the Party of the People, accused the authorities of "telephone terrorism" and gave Mikhail Saakashvili three days to disclose his agents.

December 26, 2007 13:26

• Azerbaijan: court refuses to release editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper

  Today, the Yasamal District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan has refused to change the freedom restriction measure - the arrest - to Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

December 26, 2007 13:21

• Trial of journalist Petrova who wrote about Caucasus delayed till January 21

  The Moskovskiy District Court of the city of Kazan has reappointed the consideration of the complaint of two militia officers against the decision to stop the criminal case against journalist Natalia Petrova who is known for her reports from "hot points" of the Caucasus, and her parents on January 21, 2008.

December 26, 2007 13:10

• "Imedi" suspends broadcasting in Georgia

  Georgiy Targamadze, director of political programmes of the Tbilisi-based "Imedi" TV Company, which resumed its broadcasting on December 12, has stated today that the Company is temporarily stopped.

December 25, 2007 13:52

• Video interview: Imam-human rights activist about the problems of "Dzhuma" community in Azerbaijan

  Human rights activist Ilgar Ibragimoglu, leader of the "Dzhuma" religious community in Azerbaijan and Chairman of the Centre in Defence of Freedom of Conscience and Religion (DEVAMM), has narrated in his interview about the activities of his community and the problems confronted by the parishioners of his mosque.

December 25, 2007 13:49

• Abkhazia's SSS: slavery prospers in Georgia

  The Service of State Security of Abkhazia has stated that evidences of the people, who had been subjected to forced labour for some years in Georgia, should become a weighty proof for international organizations of the fact that slavery is flourishing in the territory of this country.

December 25, 2007 13:45

• The Caucasus Times attacked by hackers can be restored by 80 percent

  The human rights website The Caucasus Times, which was attacked by hackers on December 22, will be able to restore about 80 percent of the information, which was considered lost.

December 25, 2007 13:42

• DEVAMM: new bill "On Education" encroaches on the rights of believers in Azerbaijan

  The DEVAMM has issued an appeal to the leadership of Azerbaijan, stating that the law draft "On Education", now brought for consideration to Milli Medjlis, derogates from the right of the believers.

December 25, 2007 13:34

• Relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria demand a trial of Savrulin and Shepel

  The relatives of the militants who fell victim in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have lodged a petition to with a demand to bring Alexei Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the RF's General Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, and Nikolai Shepel, former Deputy General Public Prosecutor for the SFD, to criminal responsibility.

December 24, 2007 17:55

• Volgograd Region: old people short rationed at their boarding house

  For two years already, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kikvidzenskiy District, Volgograd Region, is trying to put things in order at the Macheshanskiy boarding house for aged people and invalids. The latest inspection has shown that the rights of the people who are living in the boarding house are still violently broken.

December 24, 2007 17:52

• Trial of editor-in-chief of "Azadlyg" newspaper appointed on December 26 in Azerbaijan

  A preparatory session on the case of Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper who was arrested in Azerbaijan, is planned for December 26.

December 24, 2007 17:44

• "Ingushetia.Ru": count of election absentees in the Republic already makes 36 percent

  On December 23, a total of 57,898 applications from residents of Ingushetia have already been gathered who reject their participation in elections on December 2. But according to the official data of the Electoral Commission of Ingushetia, over 98 percent of enlisted voters took part in the voting on December 2.