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April 17, 2007 22:20

• Trial of militants who committed raid on Ingushetia in 2004 begins

  On April 16, the Supreme Court of the Republic Ingushetia started to consider the criminal case of 12 defendants accused of a terrorist attack on the Republic in June 2004.

April 17, 2007 22:10

• Nukhazhiev: Ulman disappeared for the fault of the Court

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Human Rights Ombudsman for the Chechen Republic, made a special statement concerning disappearance of a group of militaries from special troops of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (known as "GRU") accused of murdering peaceful residents.

April 16, 2007 23:10

• Ulman's case defendants could have been kidnapped

  State Duma Deputy Dmitri Rogozin thinks that the three defendants in Ulman's case who failed to appear at the court session last week, could have been kidnapped.

April 16, 2007 23:05

• Stanislav Dmitrievsky: solution of Chechen problems is impossible without changing power in Russia

  The problems of Chechnya and North Caucasus cannot be settled without changing Russian political regime. Stanislav Dmitrievsky, leader of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, liquidated in Russia by court ruling, expressed this opinion to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

April 16, 2007 22:05

• Choltaev: Kadyrov's kin retinue will deprive him of reliable support

  "Ramzan Kadyrov's signing of a decree on the national policy of the Chechen Republic (ChR) was dictated by his wish to show that Chechnya is a full-fledged part of Russia," Zaindi Choltaev, a Chechen political scientist, thinks.

April 16, 2007 22:02

• Militiamen shoot down a road accident participant in Chechnya

  The Office of Public Prosecutor of one of the Districts of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, has excited a criminal case on the fact of assassination by a militiaman of a minivan driver.

April 16, 2007 22:00

• Russian MFA welcomes UN Security Council's resolution on Abkhazian-Georgian conflict

  On April 13, the Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC) unanimously adopted the resolution on a six-month extension of the mandate of the UN Mission for Monitoring in Georgia (UNMMG) in the Abkhazian-Georgian conflict zone till October 15, 2007.

April 14, 2007 23:12

• Rasul Kudaev, prisoner in Kabardino-Balkaria, complains of tortures to Prosecutor Chaika

  On Friday, April 13, the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) extended the custody term for Rasul Kudaev, prisoner of the Nalchik pre-trial facility ("SIZO"), till this October.

April 14, 2007 23:07

• Ingushetian MIA claims prevention of a number of terror acts

  Today in Ingushetia, agents of law enforcement bodies have detected a large hiding place with 12 powerful explosives ready to use, and plenty of ammunition.

April 14, 2007 22:51

• Victims themselves promise to find Ulman's case defendants

  Minkail Ezhiev, representative of the victim party in litigation on Ulman's case and head of the Human Rights Centre of the Chechen Republic, has stated that the victim party will apply maximum efforts to find the missing defendants.

April 14, 2007 22:10

• Peacemakers: Georgia concentrates MIA units close to South Ossetia

  Actually, Georgia is increasing the strength of its MIA units in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone. This conclusion was made by the Monitoring Group of the Mixed Peacemaking Forces (MPMF) in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone and OSCE Mission officers.

April 14, 2007 22:00

• "Disagreement March" held in Russia

  Today, Moscow has become the venue of a sanctioned meeting of Kremlin-oppositionist organizations from "The Other Russia" coalition.

April 13, 2007 23:15

• Moscow City Court to start considering the case of Chechen separatists' web site author on May 3

  On May 3, the Moscow City Court will start considering the defence and accusation complaints on the verdict to Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz Center" Chechen separatists' web site.

April 13, 2007 23:08

• Dagestan Procuracy appeals against verdict on Buinaksk terror act

  The Dagestan Office of Public Prosecutor has appealed at the Supreme Court against the acquittal verdict to Magomed Salikhov accused of exploding a block of flats in Buinaksk in 1999.

April 13, 2007 22:20

• European Court accepts applications of Dubrovka terror act victims

  The European Court for Human Rights has initiated proceedings of the complaint of 58 victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatre Centre, Igor Trunov, claimants' advocate, has reported.

April 13, 2007 21:34

• Village in Abkhazia attacked by grenade launchers from Georgian territory

  The village of Vtoroye Otobaya of the Galskiy District, Abhazia, located in the close vicinity of the Georgian-Abkhazian border was shelled by grenade launchers from the adjacent territory of Georgia.

April 13, 2007 21:31

• Search of defendants in Ulman's case announced

  Ulman, Voevodin and Kalaganskiy, indictees in the murder case of peaceful Chechen residents, have been announced into search.

April 12, 2007 23:18

• South Ossetia: Georgia fabricates voters' lists

  The special regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, brought into the conflict zone on April 11, today morning has started making Xerox copies of passports of all the passing-by drivers and passengers.

April 12, 2007 23:15

• Aslakhanov doubts the existence of Chechen separatists Umarov and Khalilov

  Aslambek Aslakhanov, adviser of the president of Russia, does not exclude that leaders of Chechen separatists Doku Umarov and Rapani Khalilov can reside outside Russia. "They (Umarov and Khalilov) may be outside the Russian Federation whatsoever," Mr. Aslakhanov told journalists today.

April 12, 2007 23:05

• Accusation is afraid that defendants in Ulman's case will never appear

  Edward Ulman, Alexander Kalaganskiy and Vladimir Voevodin, defendants in the case on execution of residents of Chechnya, have failed to appear today at the session of the North-Caucasian Military Court.