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April 21, 2007 22:20

• Moscow is dissatisfied with the presence of Caucasian natives

  Today, a meeting was held in the Novopushkinskiy Public Garden of Moscow in support of renaming the Ahmad Kadyrov Street into the Pskov Troopers Street.

April 21, 2007 22:00

• South Ossetia threatens Georgia to shut off "TransKAM"

  Today, reinforced concrete structures were brought to the border between the city of Tskhinval and Tamarasheni village.

April 20, 2007 23:49

• Sanakoev stands for autonomous South Ossetia within Georgia

  Dmitri Sanakoev, alternative president of the Republic of South Ossetia, wants to enter the united Georgia in exchange for acquiring the status of a broad autonomy. He has declared it today at the 65th PA NATO Rous-Rout Workshop.

April 20, 2007 23:44

• Doku Umarov's father killed in Chechnya

  Khamad Umarov, 74, father of Doku Umarov, leader of Chechen separatists, was killed. According to one of militants' Internet web sites, Umarov's father was kidnapped back on May 5, 2005, by the employees of the "Oil Regiment" headed by Adam Demilkhanov.

April 20, 2007 23:34

• Human rights defenders expect a fair investigation of "Disagreement Marches" dispersals

  The balance of forces in the OMON (Special Militia)-dissidents confrontation in Nizhni Novgorod on March 24 can be compared with the balance of forces during the battle of Persians with 300 Spartans.

April 20, 2007 22:59

• Work of the "Educated Media" ("Internews") Foundation paralysed

  The work of the Public Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews") is actually paralysed after the search of the premises of the organization.

April 20, 2007 22:53

• Georgia: Human Rights Watch intervenes for Giorgadze's supporters

  The Human Rights Watch NGO has sent a letter to Giorgij Shavliashvili, Chair of the Tbilisi City Court, asking him to hold an open trial of the thirteen activists of the "Justice" Party and their supporters accused of a coup d'etat attempt in Georgia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with a reference to the office of the "Imedi" Party.

April 19, 2007 23:33

• "Nord-Ost" demands new criminal cases

  The "Nord-Ost" Organization demands excitation of a new criminal case on Dubrovka act of terror.

April 19, 2007 23:30

• Yusupova: Chechnya has no children rehabilitation program

  The policy of adults has poor consequences for the most vulnerable group - children. Chechnya lacks boarding schools for children with disabilities. It also has no special institutions, where parents could leave their children while at work. Lilia Yusupova, leader of the "Sozidanie" (Creation) NGO (City of Gudermes), said about it in her interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 19, 2007 23:04

• Torture charges brought to two militiamen in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of the Elborus District, Kabardino-Balkaria, has accused two workers of the District Interior Department (ROVD) - M. Baichekuev and M. Mashezov - of applying physical violence to detained minor residents of Neitrino village, Kabardino-Balkaria, Yusup Nakani and Ravil Nuraliev.

April 19, 2007 22:43

• Three policemen are accused of tortures in Georgia

  The Georgian Public Prosecutor's Office has detained three policemen suspected of beating Alexander Hositashvili, 36, who died on March 15.

April 19, 2007 22:18

• Ten NGOs stopped in Ingushetia

  Offices of international humanitarian organizations located in Naberezhnaya Street, Tagrim community, City of Nazran, Ingushetia, have closed.

April 18, 2007 23:30

• "The Other Russia" received about 50 complaints from victims of "Disagreement Marches" dispersals

  About 90 percent of those who suffered from dispersals of the so-called "Disagreement Marches" in Moscow and Saint Petersburg are going to appeal against the actions of law enforcement bodies.

April 18, 2007 23:26

• Weapons and ammunition are still found in territory of Chechnya

  During the last 24 hours, employees of power agencies have found two hiding places with weapons and ammunition in Grozny and Urus-Martan District of Chechnya.

April 18, 2007 23:20

• Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, tortured by militia, appeal against verdict

  Mr. Bulatov and Mr. Dambegov, residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who were tortured at the so-called "T-Centre," have appealed against their District Court's verdict.

April 18, 2007 22:49

• People in Chechnya are indignant of Rogozin's words about Ulman's kidnapping

  Chechen residents treat the utterances of Dmitri Rogozin, Russian State Duma Deputy, that Captain Ulman and his two subordinates could have been kidnapped by Chechens as "complete ramble" and "fiction."

April 18, 2007 22:00

• Village shelled in the Galskiy District of Abkhazia

  On April 12, the village named Vtoroe Otobaya, Galskiy District, Abkhazia, was attacked by fire.

April 17, 2007 23:21

• PEN-Centre protests against beating journalists during "Disagreement Marches"

  The International Writers' Organization "Russian PEN-Centre" has expressed its serious concern of and protest against the force methods used by law enforcement bodies against the journalists who performed their professional duties during the actions of opposition in the streets of the Russian capital on April 14.

April 17, 2007 23:19

• South Ossetia will bring custody conditions close to world standards

  A complex work to improve custody conditions will be implemented in South Ossetia.

April 17, 2007 23:16

• Trial on Kislovodsk Imam murder will continue in Pyatigorsk

  The next court session on the assassination case of Imam of the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) will take place on April 23 at 11 a.m. in the premises of the Pyatigorsk City Court.