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April 07, 2007 22:10

• Masis Mailyan is ready to stand for Nagorny Karabakh presidency

  Mr. Masis Mailyan, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Nagorny Karabakh, is ready to run for the post of the president of the Nagorny-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

April 07, 2007 22:00

• Ingushetian residents, detained by North-Ossetian militia, are suspected of smuggling gold

  On March 29, at the exit check point of the city of Nazran, Ingush militiamen stopped a group of "UBOP" (Unit to Fight Organized Crime) workers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia who tried to take out their two detainees from the territory of Ingushetia to Vladikavkaz.

April 06, 2007 22:16

• NCO's lawyers give lectures on children's rights in Stavropol Territory

  Lawyers of the Stavropol Regional Public Charitable Organization (SRPCO) "Faith, Hope, Love" continue to give lectures on the rights, duties and responsibilities of children at children's institutions, Anastasia Ponomaryova, PR specialist of the SRPCO "Faith, Hope, Love," has told today the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

April 06, 2007 22:11

• Armenia is afraid that USA-Iran war will affect South Caucasian countries

  Artashes Gegamyan, Chairman of the Party of "National Unity," has stated that Armenia should take today a clearer stand instead of being a mere observer in the American-Iranian opposition.

April 06, 2007 22:10

• Picket in support of citizens' suffrage is held in Karachaevo-Cherkessia

  The Government House of Karachaevo-Cherkessia is surrounded by power agents who have blocked the adjacent square from the picketers who came there from the city of Karachaevsk.

April 06, 2007 22:08

• Criminal case of two earlier amnestied militants delivered to Chechnya's Supreme Court

  The Investigatory Department of the Chief Administration of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation for the South Federal District (SFD) has completed the enquiry into the criminal case in relation to two Chechen separatists - Shirvani Gatsaev and Mokhdan Elgakaev.

April 06, 2007 22:05

• Head of Abkhazian MFA: UN Security Council supports Georgia

  Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, considers his ban to take part in the session of the UN Security Council as an evidence of the Councils biased position, since the Security Council has ignored the right of one of the parties in the conflict to be listened to.

April 05, 2007 23:53

• Human rights defenders ask Bush to explain his meeting with the general accused of tortures in Chechnya

  Today, the leading Russian human rights organizations have demanded from US president George Bush to give explanations concerning his meeting in the White House with the general accused by the public of mass violations of human rights in Chechnya.

April 05, 2007 23:50

• Emir Hirullah killed in Chechnya, his militants searched

  An operation is underway in the Vedenskiy District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search militants from the squad of Suleiman Imurzaev (Hirullah), killed in the morning on April 4 in the vicinity of the settlement of Egishbatoj.

April 05, 2007 23:46

• Chechen lady's suit costs Russia 65,000 euro

  Today, the European Court for Human Rights has found Russian authorities guilty of kidnapping and murdering a person in Chechnya.

April 05, 2007 22:24

• Militaries who shot women in Chechnya are on trial

  Investigators of the Military Office of Public Prosecutor of the United Force Grouping (UFG) in North Caucasus continue their enquiry into the incident that occurred on March 24 in the high-mountainous Shatoi District of Chechnya.

April 05, 2007 22:18

• Kadyrov's presidency taken ambiguously in Chechnya

  Today, Ramzan Kadyrov has officially entered the post of the president of the Chechen Republic. Many people in Chechnya are positively assessing Kadyrov's activities in his position, however, there are many of those who stick to a different point of view.

April 05, 2007 22:00

• Firemen inspect the "Educated Media" Foundation

  Another regular inspection was made to the premises of the "Educated Media" Foundation headed by Manana Aslamazyan. The fact has become known to the "Echo Moskvy" Radio Station. This time the office of the Foundation, which is under special attention of law enforcement bodies, was inspected by firemen.

April 04, 2007 23:34

• Shamba: Georgia getting ready for war on Abkhazia

  The main threat to stability originates from Georgia and the top Georgian officials who hide their true aims behind peace-loving rhetoric. Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, made this statement.

April 04, 2007 23:31

• Dudieva: gym of Beslan school should be left as it is

  Susanna Dudieva, chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, thinks that neither a temple nor a mosque can replace the "live" evidence of the Beslan tragedy - the gym.

April 04, 2007 23:26

• Doctors who mutilated a child face trial in Krasnodar

  Today in Krasnodar, a preliminary hearing was completed on a medical malpractice case, which has resulted in arm amputation of newborn Sofia Kulivets.

April 04, 2007 22:10

• Persons of attackers on the mosque in Dagestan remain unidentified

  On March 30 an armed attack was made on the mosque "Yuzhnaya" (Southern) located in the outskirts of the capital of Dagestan, as a result of which several mosque visitors became victims.

April 04, 2007 22:00

• Prosecutor demanded to send Ulman to colony for 23 years

  The prosecutor has demanded to recognize all the defendants in the Ulman's case guilty and sentence them to deprivation of freedom for the term from 18 to 23 years.

April 03, 2007 23:48

• Militiamen are accused of tortures in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Office of Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria has completed investigation into the criminal case in relation to employees of the Elborus District Interior Department ("ROVD") suspected of beating teenagers.

April 03, 2007 23:45

• Prosecution has presented its arguments on Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case

  On Tuesday, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don completed hearing evidences of the accusation party at the trial of interior officers Khudyakov and Arakcheev accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya on January 15, 2003.