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January 23, 2007 22:40

• MNS of Azerbaijan: customer of Dink's murder was never trained in the country

  The International Herald Tribune newspaper asserts in the article on the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Turkey that Yasin Haial, the customer of the editor's murder, underwent training in Chechens' camps in Azerbaijan.

January 23, 2007 22:38

• The Supreme Court has stopped the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship"

  Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has upheld the decision of the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court on liquidation of the inter-regional public organization "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF).

January 23, 2007 22:35

• Meeting of Moslems dispersed in Azerbaijan

  On January 21, policemen forced a group of believers who wanted to honour the memory of shahids out of the Shahids' Alley in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

January 22, 2007 23:56

• HRC "Memorial": refugees from Ingushetia are under threat of resettlement to North Ossetia at law

  On December 26, 2006, the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) held a court session in the village of Oktiabrskoe on a civil suit of the administration of the Prigorodny District of the RNO-A and administration of the dwelling settlement Maiskiy of the RNO-A towards the residents of the refugees' settlement in Maiskiy (19 families).

January 22, 2007 23:32

• Yu. Saveliev is ready to present his report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia

  Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and a member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the causes and circumstances of the act of terror in Beslan, has confirmed his readiness to deliver his alternative report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia, should the deputies approve this decision.

January 22, 2007 22:33

• Bush may bypass the Senate and appoint Hogland the ambassador to Armenia

  US president George Bush has again offered Richard Hogland to the Senate as the would-be US ambassador to Armenia.

January 22, 2007 22:27

• Russian society condemns the murder of Armenian journalist in Turkey

  Representatives of Russian society have issued a joint statement condemning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the "Akos" Armenian newspaper.

January 22, 2007 22:15

• Azerbaijani journalists: Hrant Dink's murder is a provocation against Turkey

  While talking to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot," Mekhman Aliev, Director of the IA "Turan," has condemned the murder of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of an Armenian newspaper, and called it an anti-Turkey provocation.

January 20, 2007 22:29

• Berezovskiy declares conditions of his interrogation on "Litvinenko's case"

  Boris Berezovsky has explained to journalists, on what conditions he is ready to meet Russian inspectors in London to be interrogated on Litvinenko's case.

January 20, 2007 22:25

• Azerbaijani law defenders threat to complain against Russia to the Council of Europe

  Azerbaijani human rights activists can apply their complaint to the Council of Europe in connection with deportation of Azerbaijani citizens from Russia.

January 20, 2007 22:23

• The Russian State Duma has passed a bill aimed to strengthen the fight against extremist editions in Dagestan

  On January 19 the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted 389 versus 26 for approval in the first reading of the bill initiated by the National Assembly of Dagestan that entitles the public prosecutor to go to court for recognition of information materials to be extremist not only at the location of the organization that has published such materials, but also at the place of detection and distribution of them.

January 20, 2007 22:21

• L. Dorogova: refusal to give out bodies of the militants perished on October 13, 2005, aggravates the situation in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Advocate Larissa Dorogova, a Bar member of Kabardino-Balkaria, who is representing the interests of the relatives of those perished during the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, gave her comments in an interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the situation with the decision on the "issue of giving out of the bodies."

January 20, 2007 22:19

• Eight persons already detained in Turkey on Hrant Dink's murder

  Today, in the centre of Yerevan, in the Square named after Charles Aznavur, belonging to the "Moscow" movie theatre, an action was held in memory of Hrant Dink, a well-known public figure of Turkey, a journalist of the Armenian origin.

January 19, 2007 23:26

• Editor of Armenian newspaper killed in Turkey

  On January 19, at 3 p.m. local time, in front of the building of the editorial board of the Armenian weekly "Akos," published in Istanbul in the Turkish language, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the edition and an Armenian by origin, was shot dead by three headshots.

January 19, 2007 23:19

• "Voice of Beslan": General Prosecutor's Office should take notice of Saveliev's report

  The victims of the Beslan terror act who have addressed the parliament of North Ossetia with a request to hear at its sitting in the presence of the victims the alternative report of State Duma deputy Yuri Saveliev, hope that the conclusions of the report will be recognized by the investigation.

January 19, 2007 21:30

• Azerbaijani Authorities grow hot over appeals to evict Russians out of the country

  Because of Russia's enacting new migratory laws, which have restricted the right of foreigners to trade there, the OLC has declared: "We demand from Russian leaders to put an end to discrimination of our compatriots who live in their country, otherwise the OLC will undertake concrete steps to suspend the operation of the Russian embassy in Baku and to evict Russians from Azerbaijan."

January 19, 2007 21:26

• Great Britain: Russia will hardly have Zakaev extradited

  Russia will have more difficulties to achieve a reconsideration of requests on extradition of the Russians who were granted asylum in Great Britain.

January 19, 2007 21:23

• All-Russian Human Rights Congress on situation in North Caucasus

  On December 10, Moscow hosted the Second All-Russian Congress in Defence of Human Rights. The Congress adopted a great package of resolutions: Solidarity and Cooperation (What can we oppose to the war in North Caucasus?).

January 18, 2007 23:34

• New trial on Khlebnikov's murder will start within 30 days

  The case files on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Forbes Russian version, have arrived to the Moscow City Court for retrial.

January 18, 2007 22:50

• European Court has accounted Russian authorities guilty of torturing Chechnya residents

  The authorities of Russia have been found guilty of torturing the residents of Chechnya.