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December 30, 2006 22:47

• Mario Scaramella refused to be granted home arrest

  Mario Scaramella, Italian lawyer, will spend the New Year holiday in the Roman prison of "Regina Koeli".

December 29, 2006 23:33

• Georgia and Abkhazia draw troops to the borders

  According to the TV company "Rustavi 2", a state of emergency has been introduced in Abkhazia, and the government military forces are located in the Ochamchirsk district adjoining the Galsk district.

December 29, 2006 23:30

• Poisoning of Litvinenko: General Prosecutor's Office wants Scotland Yard to question Berezovsky

  Scotland Yard has been asked to interrogate Boris Berezovsky at the earliest opportunity on the case of murder of Alexandr Litvinenko, former FSB officer, and attempted murder of businessman Dmitri Kovtun, which is under investigation by the Russian prosecutor's office.

December 29, 2006 22:09

• Two residents of Chechnya charged with disturbances in Kondopoga

  The Karelia prosecutor's office has accused of murder two residents of Chechnya who took part in a mass fight in the city of Kondopoga which resulted in ethnic-based disturbances in the city at the beginning of September.

December 29, 2006 22:06

• RF First Channel is puzzled at broadcasts to be stopped in Azerbaijan

  "Interfax" reports that the Russian First Channel, according to its public relations directorate, expresses its perplexity in connection with the Baku decision to stop broadcasting its programs in Azerbaijan starting from July next year.

December 29, 2006 22:04

• Seriously ill judge who sentenced Budaev placed into pre-trial prison punishment cell

  The Russian national movement "For Human Rights" and the Committee "For Civil Rights" express their grave concern in connection with the fact that, on December 28, Vladimir Bukreyev, the former judge who sentenced colonel Budanov, has been placed into the punishment cell of Moscow's pre-trial prison No 5 for 15 days under the pretext that a SIM-card was found on him.

December 28, 2006 22:58

• Litvinenko gave materials on YUKOS case to Nevzlin

  At the end of November, Leonid Nevzlin told in his interview to the British The Times newspaper that not long before his death Alexander Litvinenko gave him certain materials, which "shed light on most important aspects of the YUKOS case."

December 28, 2006 22:53

• OSCE demands to find those guilty of attacking journalists in Azerbaijan

  On December 27, Robin Seaword, head of the Baku OSCE office, expressed his concern of inactivity of the Azerbaijani police in relation to assaults on representatives of opposition papers that took place last Sunday and Monday.

December 28, 2006 22:47

• South Resource Centre: distribution of Putin's grants among NCOs has strengthened estrangement of public and power

  The Krasnodar non-governmental organization (NGO) "South Regional Resource Centre" thinks that Vladimir Putin's order on state support of non-commercial organizations (NCOs) "has strengthened the estrangement of civil society and the power."

December 28, 2006 22:40

• Azerbaijan stops Russian TV channels

  The National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting (NCTRB) of Azerbaijan made a decision at its sitting on Thursday made a decision to stop broadcasting of Russian channels "Pervy" (First) and "Rossiya" (Russia) in the Republic's national frequencies, and of two Turkish ones - "STV" ("Samanyolu") and "D."

December 28, 2006 22:36

• Examination has confirmed: Basaev was killed in Ingushetia

  A gene-molecular examination has confirmed that the remains of the terrorist liquidated in Ingushetia that were delivered for investigation belong exactly to Shamil Basaev.

December 27, 2006 23:22

• One of indictees of Moscow Metro explosions begs for leniency

  Mr. Tambij Khubiev, one of defendants on Moscow Metro terror acts case, has applied to the Moscow City Court for leniency, Igor Trunov, victims' lawyer has reported.

December 27, 2006 23:21

• General Prosecutor's Office checks Nevzlin's involvement in Litvinenko's murder

  The Russian General Prosecutor's Office is undertaking investigatory actions to verify the information about Russian citizens' poisoning with toxic substances.

December 27, 2006 22:16

• Alkhanov: 380 militants have surrendered during the year

  In 2006, about 380 former militants have got back to peaceful life in Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, president of the Republic, has reported this fact to the press conference.

December 27, 2006 22:08

• Igor Dobaev: "youth jama'ats" assault North Caucasus

  On request of the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot," Igor Dobaev, Doctor of Philosophy, head of the sector of geopolitical problems of the South Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gave his comments on the events in Cherkessk (Karachayevo-Cherkessia) on December 25, 2006.

December 27, 2006 22:05

• Nalchik attackers have publicly repented in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The "Kabardino-Balkarian Pravda" newspaper has published the "Address of Former Members of Illegal Armed Formations (IAFs) Who Have Voluntarily Laid Down Arms," which runs that the time that has passed allowed them "to give a new look on their actions and rethink over the grave consequences" of what has happened.

December 26, 2006 22:09

• Ali Gasanov: authorities of Azerbaijan are against impingement of freedom of speech

  Human rights activists and lawyers consider that violence applied to Nidzhat Daglar, correspondent of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, was a continuation of the violence campaign of the authorities towards the press, as well as a result of impunity for previous crimes.

December 26, 2006 22:07

• MIA of Kabardino-Balkaria has again announced search of human rights defender Ruslan Nakhushev

  The information published in the "Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda" newspaper (on 13.12.2006) about search of 23 especially dangerous criminals is again listing the name of human rights activist Ruslan Nakhushev.

December 26, 2006 21:53

• Court accuses Shepel of breaching the law when investigating Beslan terror act

  The Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday the life sentence verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev for taking part in Beslan act of terrorism.

December 26, 2006 21:50

• Another Georgian citizen has died in Moscow

  Lion Kukava, 56, a citizen of Georgia, has died in Moscow under unclear circumstances.