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June 05, 2007 19:16

• "Demos": criticism of the work of "Memorial" in Chechnya is unjustified

  On May 30 a meeting was held in the city of Gudermes of President Ramzan Kadyrov with representatives of the Republic's NGOs. During the event, the region's leader criticized the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial."

June 05, 2007 16:28

• Journalists hold a protest action in Azerbaijan

  Today a group of Azerbaijani journalists has held an action in front of the building of the Court for Grave Crimes in protest against non-admittance of independent and opposition media to the trial of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister for Economic Development.

June 05, 2007 15:20

• Moslem asks President of Kabardino-Balkaria for protection against oppression

  Ruslan Karabashev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, sent a letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria asking to defend him against ungrounded prosecution by power agencies.

June 05, 2007 14:35

• 16 persons kidnapped in Chechnya during three months of 2007

  The kidnapping problem in the territory of Chechnya is still unresolved, although the number of this sort of crimes has essentially decreased in comparison with the first years of the "counterterrorist operation."

June 04, 2007 22:13

• V. Gefter: we cannot assert that in 1999 apartment houses were blown up by FSB

  Valentin Gefter, Director General of the Institute for Human Rights and a Board Member of the International Society "Memorial," has summed up intermediate outcomes of the work of the Public Commission for investigating the circumstances of explosions of apartment blocks in Moscow and Volgodonsk and exercises in Ryazan in 1999.

June 04, 2007 20:49

• Murder of two students in Stavropol: three versions

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Leninskiy District of Stavropol has initiated a criminal case on the fact of murdering two students in the city of Stavropol.

June 04, 2007 19:01

• Human rights defenders: Chechen student was killed by militiamen in Stavropol

  On June 1, 2007, the All-Russian Public Movement "For Human Rights" received materials evidencing that Stavropol student Gelani Ruslanovich Ataev had not perished during a mass fight in Stavropol on May 24 in the Yunost Avenue, but he was beaten to death by employees of law enforcement bodies who had first handcuffed him.

June 04, 2007 15:13

• Investigation into Kondopoga fight is over

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Karelia has finished the investigation of the criminal case initiated on the facts of the murder of two Kondopoga residents and inflicting various gravity harm to the health of nine other citizens during the incident at night on August 29-30, 2006, near the "Chaika" restaurant.

June 04, 2007 14:19

• Cossack Ataman of Stavropol Territory will not be brought to criminal liability

  Mikhail Serkov, Ataman of the Stavropol Cossack District of the Tersk Cossack Army, will not be brought to criminal responsibility for his anti-Estonian utterances.

June 02, 2007 18:05

• Chochiev: Georgia prevents restoring water supply of Tskhinval

  "Despite my agreement with Merab Antadze, co-chairman of the MCC (Mixed Control Commission) from the Georgian party, that today the necessary repair works to restore water supply will be carried out, the working crews were not admitted to the damaged water line section," Boris Chochiev said.

June 02, 2007 15:57

• Joint monitoring of water supply system conducted in South Ossetia

  Tskhinval has to do without water for 9 days already. Today, a joint monitoring of the Edis-Tskhinval water supply system was conducted in South Ossetia.

June 02, 2007 14:49

• Young soldiers are still trialled for treason in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan on June 7, a preparatory session will be held by the Court for Grave War Crimes under chairmanship of Judge Mamedbagir Zeinalov on the case of former military Eldeniz Nuriev who is accused of "treason," "violation of combat duty regulations" and "desertion."

June 02, 2007 01:39

• Patrol police of Georgian MIA already differs in nothing from "pre-revolutionary" GAI (State Traffic Inspectorate)

  Patrol units stop citizens at night without any grounds, impose fines for no reason, and should anybody complain, they can detain a person "for hooliganism," runs an article in the "Alia" Georgian newspaper.

June 01, 2007 18:49

• Human rights activists of Kabardino-Balkaria support the Moslems

  On May 21 and 24 the four Moslems who had earlier sent a letter to President of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) with a request to open a mosque were detained and delivered to the Organized Crime Combating Unit (UBOP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria.

June 01, 2007 17:16

• Moscow Regional Court acquits the convict accused of murdering Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan

  The Jury of the Moscow Regional Court has acquitted Roman Polusmyak who was accused of murdering Arthur Sardaryan, 19, a refugee from Azerbaijan, on the motive of national hostility.

June 01, 2007 16:07

• "Nord-Ost" organization: investigation of Dubrovka terror act is dragged on

  Tatiana Karpova, co-chair of the "Nord-Ost" regional public organization for promoting defence of terrorism victims, considers that the investigation into the Dubrovka act of terror will not be stopped, but protracted in all possible ways.

June 01, 2007 11:44

• Defence of the convict for murdering Kislovodsk Imam appeals against the verdict

  The advocate of Roman Koyushev, a resident of the Predgorny District of Stavropol Territory, convicted for murdering Imam of Kislovodsk, has appealed against the verdict.

June 01, 2007 10:59

• Chernogorov reacts to mass scuffle in Stavropol

  Today, Governor Alexander Chernogorov has addressed a statement on the mass scuffle on May 24, 2007, in the city of Stavropol to the heads of municipal formations of Stavropol Territory.

May 31, 2007 18:33

• A week-long water supply break in the capital of South Ossetia

  On May 24, 2007, under the order of Georgian leaders drinking water delivery to the city of Tskhinval was stopped.

May 31, 2007 15:53

• Newspaper of Russian Armenians calls on Armenia not to make concessions to Azerbaijan

  The newspaper of Russian Armenians 'Erkramas,' acting on behalf of its readers, is calling on the leaders of Armenia to reject signing the treaty that infringes the interests of the Armenian nation.