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September 10, 2007 21:55

• The main witness interrogated at the trial of militiamen who tortured teenagers in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, the Elborus District Court has continued considering the criminal case about beating by local ROVD employees of two teenagers.

September 10, 2007 21:52

• Patrushev: 21 terror act accomplished in Russia during the first half of this year

  Nikolai Patrushev, head of the FSB (Federal Secutiry Bureau) of the Russian Federation, has reported that the number of terror acts accomplished in the territory of Russia goes down year after year.

September 10, 2007 21:49

• Ingushetia: circumstances of local resident's death after detention are investigated

  A check is underway on the fact of death of the person who was arrested on suspicion of participating in illegal armed formations. The resident of Ingushetia died yesterday, on September 9, at the Interior Department (OVD).

September 10, 2007 21:46

• SC of Kabardino-Balkaria satisfies journalist Murtaz Pachev's claim

  The Board on Civil Cases of the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has considered a cassation complaint filed by of journalist Murtaz Pachev about cancelling the decision of the Nalchik Court, and satisfied the complaint.

September 10, 2007 21:42

• Tenants of 10-storey house in Krasnodar are afraid of "terror act"

  Residents of the apartment block in Krasnodar, at No. 93 in the 40 Years of Victory Street, are convinced that a "terror act" is prepared, and sooner or later the gas main pipeline, which is now in the construction zone, will blow up, at a time destroying the newly built 16-storey house and all the surrounding buildings.

September 08, 2007 12:52

• Kabardino-Balkaria: explosion on "Caucasus" Highway is investigated

  Yesterday at 4 p.m. an attempt of a terror act was undertaken on the "Caucasus" Highway between the cities of Chegem and Baksan.

September 08, 2007 12:49

• CE's Human Rights Commissioner met the arrested "Real Azerbaijan" editor

  Thomas Hammerberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights, has met Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan," kept in custody at the investigatory isolation facility of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan.

September 08, 2007 12:44

• Press service of Ingushetian President: over 500 Russian families returned during two years

  The President's press service informed that during the last two years more than 500 Russian families have returned to Ingushetia.

September 08, 2007 12:39

• All the bodies extracted from under the fragments of collapsed building in Azerbaijan

  In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the bodies of all the victims have been found under the ruins of the collapsed 16-storey apartment house. Thus, the total number of casualties has made 25 persons.

September 08, 2007 12:15

• The militant liquidated in the capital of Chechnya was a member of Rustam Basaev's group

  Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechnya's Minister of Interior, has stated that Musa Mutiev, the so-called "Emir of Grozny," who was killed today during a special operation in the city of Grozny, was a member of the subversive and terrorist group that had murdered several law enforcement officers and was preparing acts of terror against high-ranking officials.

September 07, 2007 16:24

• Caucasian Reserve demands to legalize its ownership of the Lagonaki Plateau

  On August 23, the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve, being the legal owner of the lands now challenged by the Government of Adygea, filed a claim to the Arbitration Court of the Republic with a demand to recognize the Reserve's right for termless use of the lands of the Lagonaki Highland.

September 07, 2007 16:20

• Murder of a Korean family investigated in Ingushetia

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are investigating another attack on a Russian-speaking family accomplished in the Sunzha District of the Republic, as a result of which father and son Lagai were killed.

September 07, 2007 16:17

• A Russian lady-doctor shot dead in Ingushetia

  Natalia Fyodorovna Mudarova, head physician of the blood transfusion centre, was assassinated in the centre of Nazran (Ingushetia).

September 07, 2007 16:13

• South Ossetia's MIA: explosion in Tskhinval was a terror act

  Mikhail Mindzaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, has stated that the explosion that was heard today morning in a suburb of the city of Tskhinval, which caused an injury of a person, was an act of terror.

September 07, 2007 16:08

• A native of Azerbaijan killed in Moscow

  At night of September 7 in the southwest of Moscow a fight burst out with use of cold steel arms, as a result of which a native of Azerbaijan died and a resident of the Republic of Dagestan was wounded.

September 07, 2007 16:04

• Ex-head of Armenia's MFA released

  Alexander Arzumanian, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, accused of money laundering, has been released from custody.

September 06, 2007 22:14

• Murder of the daughter of the special force fighter who perished in Beslan could be a vengeance

  On September 5 it became known about the murder in Moscow outskirts of Oksana Kuznetsova, 18, a daughter of Major Mikhail Kuznetsov, employee of the FSB's Special-Purpose Centre, one of the ten special force fighters who perished while releasing Beslan hostages.

September 06, 2007 22:07

• Distributor of extremist leaflets detained in Stavropol Territory

  A local resident suspected of spreading extremist leaflets was detained in Novoblagodarny settlement of the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory.

September 06, 2007 21:58

• French police not guilty of illegal alien-boy's fall from the balcony

  The policemen of the French city of Amiens are not guilty of Russian boy Ivan's fall from the balcony of the fifth floor, as a result of which he received heavy traumas.

September 06, 2007 10:01

• European Parliament suggests to nominate Politkovskaya for Sakharov Prize

  Pole Yatsek Sariush-Volski, head of the Committee of European Parliament for International Matters, has suggested to nominate Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously for 2007 Andrei Sakharov.