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August 14, 2007 13:04

• Father of the illegal boy who suffered in France escaped from Chechnya in order not to become a militant

  Father of Ivan Dembskiy, 12, illegal immigrant to France, who fell down last week from a balcony in the French city of Amiens, had run away from Chechnya because of his unwilling to become a militant.

August 13, 2007 12:18

• Record of murder of Dagestan and Tajikistan natives appears in Russian Internet

  Starting from August 12, the Russian-language segment of the Internet disseminates a video of an assumed double murder of a Tadjik and a Dagestanian.

August 13, 2007 12:13

• "Dagestan Mothers" intend to continue their protest actions

  Today, representatives of the "Dagestan Mothers" public organization have addressed their applications to the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan against the employees of law enforcement bodies, who were involved, in their opinion, in kidnapping and torturing the young men.

August 13, 2007 11:28

• Alimardan Aliev: Russian lady-journalist was not deported from Azerbaijan

  Alimardan Aliev, head of the public and political department of the executive power of the Lenkoran District, told that Yana Amelina, journalist of the "Rosbalt" Information Agency, was not deported from Azerbaijan.

August 13, 2007 11:19

• Ex-wife of commander of Kabardino-Balkarian militants seeks protection from President of Russia

  Zukhra Tsipinova, former wife of Anzor Astemirov, leader of Kabardino-Balkarian militants, has addressed her complaint to President V. Putin, General Public Prosecutor of the RF Yu. Chaika and Chair of the Human Rights Commission under the RF President E. Pamfilova.

August 13, 2007 11:17

• Residents of the capital of South Ossetia ask Russia to stand up for them at the United Nations

  While sometimes the water supply to Tskhinval made some 20-30 percent of the demand, during several recent days water taps have not yielded a drop of water.

August 13, 2007 11:11

• Kabardino-Balkaria: health condition of detainee Rasul Kudaev has sharply worsened

  The state of health of Rasul Kudaev, an inmate of the Investigatory Isolation Facility (SIZO-1) of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has dramatically aggravated.

August 13, 2007 11:02

• Republic's Hospital of Ingushetia receives kidney machines

  Five modern kidney machines (haemodialyzers) bought by one of local businessmen to cover the deficit of these devices for local kidney insufficiency patients have been delivered to the dialysis department.

August 11, 2007 15:28

• Whereabouts of Ingushetian resident kidnapped in Karabulak not detected so far

  Relatives of local resident Ibragim Gadziev, who was kidnapped on August 8 in Karabulak (Ingushetia) and taken in unknown direction, are not able so far to clarify his whereabouts.

August 11, 2007 15:22

• Georgia: over ten mass media evicted from their offices

  The "Kavkassia" Georgian Independent TV Company has failed so far, after eviction on August 10 from the building of the "Samshoblo" (Homeland) Publishing House, to find any alternative office premises and resume its broadcasting.

August 11, 2007 15:13

• RF "Rosselkhoznadzor": Georgia throws carcasses of infected pigs into the river

  The Russian Committee for Agricultural Supervision ("Rosselkhoznadzor") has addressed the International Epizootic Bureau in connection with a message of the Veterinary Service of Abkhazia about detection in River Kodor of carcasses of pigs that perished from African swine fever.

August 10, 2007 14:33

• Zyazikov: suspects of murdering Russian teacher detained in Ingushetia

  Murat Zyazikov, President of Ingushetia, has reported that "under the data of law enforcement bodies, Prosecutor's Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and respective agencies, suspects have been detected, some people detained" in the case of the murder of Russian lady-teacher.

August 10, 2007 14:19

• Militia violently disperses meeting of "Dagestan Mothers"

  In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, the militia had dispersed a peaceful meeting organized by relatives of kidnapped young men.

August 10, 2007 06:58

• Committee in defence of rights of Azerbaijani ex-Minister of Public Health is dissatisfied with human rights defenders

  The case of Rizvan Talybov, chairman of the committee in defence of Ali Insanov's rights, has been delivered for enforcement to the Sumgait Court of Azerbaijan, to Judge Takhmina Khalilova.

August 10, 2007 06:50

• European Court accepts complaints of two Azerbaijani oppositionists

  The European Court has accepted for proceedings a complaint filed by Arifa Gadzhily, head of the central executive office of the "Musavat" Party. Earlier the European Court has accepted the complaint of Panakh Gusein, deputy of Azerbaijani Parliament.

August 10, 2007 06:46

• Police evicts 10 newspaper editorial boards and 2 TV Companies in the capital of Georgia

  The Georgian police are moving about ten editorial boards of Georgian newspapers and two TV Companies out of the building in the centre of Tbilisi.

August 09, 2007 19:33

• Delegation of "Dagestan Mothers" goes to search kidnapped persons in Chechnya

  The thirteen women who had gone on hunger strike in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, went to the Chechen Republic and visited the Prosecutor's Office of the city of Grozny.

August 09, 2007 18:39

• Elena Liptser: Trepashkin's life is in danger

  The health of ex-FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving his four-year punishment for disclosure of state secrets, has seriously aggravated recently.

August 09, 2007 17:45

• Azerbaijan: inmates convicted for abusing Prophet Mohammed transferred to strict custody colony

  In Azerbaijan, publicist Rafik Tagi and editor of the "Sanat" (Culture) newspaper Samir Sadatoglu were sent to the strict custody colony for serving their punishments.

August 09, 2007 12:51

• Esko Repo: 15 percent of Russian political refugees in Finland are Chechen natives

  Esko Repo, head of the Department for Refugees of the Authority on Foreigners' Matters of Finland, has stated: "Before the end of June this year, a total of 75 Russian citizens arrived to Finland and applied for granting political asylum. There are Chechens among them."