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February 06, 2007 23:16

• International organizations stand for peaceful settlement of Nagorny Karabakh conflict

  These days, Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, hosted another regular meeting within the joint project "Dialogue through Movies," implemented under the aegis of the British organization "Reconciliation Resources" and with assistance of the Internews of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

February 06, 2007 23:14

• Attempt against MIA's head committed in Dagestan

  Late in the evening on February 3, an assassination attempt was undertaken in Dagestan against Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic.

February 06, 2007 23:06

• Member of Beslan commission: Putin personally gave order to storm the school

  Yuri Ivanov, deputy of the State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has accused president of Russia Vladimir Putin of giving a personal order to start bombardment of the building of Beslan school with grenade launchers, the Associated Press has reported.

February 06, 2007 23:04

• Yandarbiev's allies who surrendered in January to Chechen authorities were not at war

  Three nephews of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, former vice-president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who surrendered on January 12 this year to the authorities of Chechnya, were engaged only in the issues of his guarding.

February 05, 2007 23:43

• M. Mutsolgov: ANCO "Mashr" is under permanent pressure of the authorities

  The Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr" is the first human rights organization in Ingushetia engaged in rendering legal aid to the population, executing public control of the observance of human rights and freedoms in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia.

February 05, 2007 23:38

• Newspaper run with materials on Alkhanov's jubilee confiscated and destroyed in Chechnya

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic is holding an examination on the occasion of confiscation of the whole run of the "Daimokhk" (Fatherland) newspaper.

February 05, 2007 23:19

• Merzhoev, declared militants' aide and shot dead in Ingushetia, was unarmed

  The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that on February 3, members of power agencies of Ingushetia killed a militants' ally in the town of Malgobek.

February 05, 2007 23:16

• Anti-War Committee: murderers of Novye Aldy residents live in St. Petersburg

  Exactly 7 years ago, on February 5, 2000, in the settlement of Novye Aldy of the Zavodskoj District of the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, was subjected to the so-called "zachistka" (clean-up) committed by the units of Russian militia.

February 05, 2007 23:13

• Trial on suit lodged by parents of the soldier killed in North Caucasus is appointed on February 15

  On February 15, the Lefortovskiy District Court of Moscow will start a process on the suit initiated by the Human Rights Foundation "Mothers' Right" on behalf of the parents of Alexander Makmatov, a regular soldier who perished in 1996 in the border of North Ossetia and Ingushetia.

February 03, 2007 23:53

• Azerbaijani authorities lost another suit at the European Court

  The European Court for Human Rights has informed about satisfaction of another suit against the authorities of Azerbaijan, filed by Nabat Ramazanova and others.

February 03, 2007 18:19

• One more lady-patient hospitalized in Azerbaijan on suspicion of avian flu

  A resident of the village of Boyat of the Neftchalinskiy District was taken to the Scientific Research Institute of Pulmonary Diseases of the Ministry of Public Health of Azerbaijan with suspicion of avail flu.

February 03, 2007 18:17

• Turkish ex-minister of culture: Turkey and Azerbaijan should create a union state

  Namik Kyamal Zeibek, former Turkish minister of culture, said in one of his recent interviews that Turkey and Azerbaijan should create a united state.

February 03, 2007 18:14

• Chair of electoral committee kidnapped in Abkhazia

  In the Galskiy District of Abkhazia, people in masks have kidnapped David Sigua, Head of the District Electoral Committee.

February 03, 2007 18:00

• North Caucasian Military Court hears the case on murder of Chechnya resident by Russian militaries

  The North Caucasian Regional Military Court has started the process on the case of Igor Denisov, former regular serviceman of federal troops, accused of murdering a resident of Chechnya aged 18, accomplished in February 1995.

February 03, 2007 17:58

• Military released from Armenian captivity arrested in Azerbaijan

  Vusal Garadzhaev, a soldier of the Azerbaijani army, who was released from Armenian captivity on December 23, 2006, was arrested in Azerbaijan.

February 02, 2007 23:37

• Igor Trunov: victims of metro terror acts will get no compensation from the convicts

  Although the complainants in the case of Moscow metro explosions are not completely satisfied with the judgment of conviction, they will not appeal against it.

February 02, 2007 23:23

• The officers who killed peaceful inhabitants of Chechnya will be released from custody

  The Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to release under signature not to leave the two lieutenants of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Evgenij Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev - accused of murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya.

February 02, 2007 23:03

• Krasnodar Territory: Novorossiysk militia puts pressure on human rights defenders

  According to the information of the "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights," on January 23, 2007, a meeting of human rights activists and students with their guests from Germany in Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Territory) was interrupted by representatives of law enforcement bodies who appeared in the number of 15 persons.

February 02, 2007 22:46

• Moscow metro terror act perpetrators have got life sentences

  The Moscow City Court has sentenced the three persons accused on the case of acts of terror in Moscow metro in 2004 - at the "Rizhskaya" station and in the leg between the "Paveletskaya" and "Avtozavodskaya" stations to life imprisonment.

February 01, 2007 23:48

• International organizations condemn arrests of journalists in Azerbaijan

  The Baku OSCE office and the OSCE Representative for the freedom of mass media have expressed their deep concern with the new facts of criminal prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan.