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August 09, 2007 12:26

• Chechnya's society initiates dismissal of Military Prosecutor

  The Chechen society asks the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office to audit the activities of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the United Military Grouping in Northern Caucasus.

August 08, 2007 17:21

• "Voice of Beslan" fears that the SC of Kabardino-Balkaria will acquit Ingush militiamen

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria has continued the judicial investigation at the trial of the commanders of the Malgobek District Interior Department (ROVD) of Ingushetia, accused of negligence that entailed the terror act in Beslan.

August 08, 2007 17:10

• Advocates ask to send Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case to Military Prosecutor's Office for additional investigation

  At the session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court on the case of two officers (Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev), accused of murdering peaceful Chechens, the defendants' advocates have petitioned about sending the case to the Military Prosecutor's Office for additional investigation.

August 08, 2007 11:26

• Bureaucrats tried to get 71 million roubles of "combat" money instead of those who fought in Northern Caucasus

  Workers of the Military Counterintelligence Service and Department for Fighting Economic Crime (UBEP) of the Chief Interior Administration of Moscow (GUVD) have detained several swindlers who tried to receive under forged documents the so-called "combat" bonuses in the sum of 71 million roubles instead of 71 persons who fought in Northern Caucasus.

August 08, 2007 01:26

• Rapid growth of oncology patients observed in Chechnya in recent years

  Every year, up to one thousand persons die in Chechnya from different types of oncology diseases. In the opinion of physicians, for lack of a specialized clinic in Chechnya, it is practically impossible to detect oncology patients at early disease phases, thus depriving them of any chance to survive.

August 08, 2007 01:20

• Vasily Krasulya: authorities of Stavropol Territory hinder people to help people

  The authorities of the Stavropol Territory interfere into the activities of the protest movement and hinder the needy people to receive help.

August 07, 2007 20:44

• Suspect of murdering antifascist Kacharava sentenced to 12 years in prison

  The Petersburg Court has sentenced four defendants in the murder case of student-antifascist Timur Kacharava to imprisonment from 2 to 12 years.

August 07, 2007 18:32

• Ingushetia: information about beating of Ali-Yurt residents by power agents is verified

  The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are checking the facts of beating by federal servicemen of local residents in the course of a special operation in one of Ingush villages near the border with North Ossetia.

August 07, 2007 17:44

• Nukhazhiev: attack on Tsa-Vedeno is a result of negligence of power agencies

  The militants' attack on Tsa-Vedeno, when three persons fell victim, is a result of negligence and criminally poor attitude of the heads of the power agencies to their duties, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen Ombudsman, said.

August 07, 2007 14:56

• Web site of opposition party hacked in Azerbaijan

  Hackers have cracked the web site of the oppositional Party of National Front of Azerbaijan (PNFA) and placed photos and addresses of representatives of sexual minorities in the place of the web site.

August 07, 2007 13:56

• Laurent Vinatier: Kadyrov is the main "weapon" of Russian "Chechenization" strategy

  Dr Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher from the Paris Institute of Political Studies, gave the interview on Chechen-Russian relations to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

August 07, 2007 11:49

• Labourites go to European Court against authorities of Georgia

  Members of the Labour Party have filed a complaint against Georgian authorities to the European Court for Human Rights. The subject of the claim was installation of collective electricity meters.

August 06, 2007 16:36

• "Novaya Gazeta": SC of North Ossetia amnesties all criminals with epaulets

  Because of the fact that on August 2 the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia upheld the legality of applying amnesty to the three commanders of the Pravoberezhny District Interior Department (ROVD), quite willfully a legal precedent has been created, the "Novaya Gazeta" is writing today.

August 06, 2007 16:26

• Eighteen persons disappeared in North Ossetia during the recent two years

  A total of eighteen persons have disappeared in North Ossetia during the recent two years, five of them - during the last two months.

August 06, 2007 14:31

• Dzhamalkhanov's militants searched in Chechnya

  A special operation continues in the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search the militants who made an attack on the Tsa-Vedeno village, as a result of which several persons were lost.

August 06, 2007 14:22

• Three women trained as suicide-bombers made use of the amnesty in Chechnya

  Oleg Zhidkov, deputy head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), informed on August 3 that among the persons who used the amnesty announced by the State Duma for militants in Chechnya there were relatives of militants' leaders and three women trained to be suicide-bombers.

August 06, 2007 14:12

• Working group on the case of arrested journalist of the "Bizim Yol" newspaper founded in Azerbaijan

  Today, the first sitting was held of the working group on the case of Mushfig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, arrested in Azerbaijan.

August 06, 2007 14:06

• Conservative Party of Georgia demands response from the Prosecutor-General's Office on Robakidze's case

  The Georgian Conservative Party requests an answer from the Prosecutor-General's Office on the case of Amiran Robakidze.

August 06, 2007 13:36

• Keilin's defence may not appeal against extension of his custody

  The Leninskiy District Court of the city of Stavropol has extended by one month more Andrei Keilin's custody, due to expire on August 6.

August 03, 2007 18:15

• "Dagestan Mothers" go on hunger strike

  At the meeting held in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against kidnappings, mothers of missing people have announced their intention to start a hunger strike and keep in until President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev receives them.