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December 21, 2006 22:16

• Zakaev thinks Kremlin wants to intimidate him

  The emissary of Chechen separatists has stated that Russian authorities, who have resumed investigation of his criminal case, are thus trying to scare him.

December 20, 2006 23:44

• Putin approved the list of NCOs entitled to fund the Kremlin

  An order of Mr. Putin, President of the Russian Federation, has appeared in the web-site of the RF President. The order lists the Non-Commercial Organizations (NCOs), which will be funded from the state budget.

December 20, 2006 23:08

• General Public Prosecutor's Office renews old criminal cases, striving to have Ahmed Zakaev extradited

  The Chief Department of the General Public Prosecutor's Office for the South Federal District has resumed the earlier suspended investigation on the criminal case in relation to Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, initiated back in 2001.

December 20, 2006 23:06

• Volgograd journalist beat Russia at European Court

  On December 14, the European Court for Human Rights ruled that the judicial authorities of the Russian Federation had encroached on the right of Anatoly Karman, former editor-in-chief of the "Gorodskie Vesti" (City News) newspaper (Volgograd), for the freedom of expression, stipulated by Article 10 of the European Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

December 20, 2006 23:03

• Danish Council for Refugees denies charges of scouting in Chechnya

  The heads of the Danish Council for Refugees have categorically refuted the accusations put forward in relation to this humanitarian organization by Russian FSB director Nikolai Patrushev.

December 20, 2006 22:59

• Sadretdinov, indictee in Khlebnikov's case tried to commit suicide

  Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, defendant in the murder case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine, has made an attempt to hang himself in the trial prison, where he is now kept.

December 19, 2006 23:04

• Ulman's case: Plotnikov confirms he did not order to kill peaceful residents

  Vladimir Plotnikov, former commander of the special operation - now witness in Ulman's case, - has stated that had not ordered to kill residents of Chechnya.

December 19, 2006 21:41

• Rector of wounded Islamic Institute operated on in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

  Today, Ismail Bostanov, rector of the Islamic Institute, has undergone an emergency surgery in the city hospital of Cherkessk (Karachayevo-Cherkessia).

December 19, 2006 21:38

• Chechnya residents think that power agents have killed peaceful people and gave them out to be militants

  The "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that on October 7, 2006, three militants were killed in Chechnya.

December 19, 2006 21:36

• Patrushev: Danish Council for Refugees is scouting in Chechnya

  Nikolai Patrushev, Director of the FSB, has moved his claims to the operations of the Danish Council for Refugees (DCF) in the territory of Russia.

December 19, 2006 21:27

• Victims of Beslan terror act do not dispute Kulaev's sentence

  The cassation complaint of the terror act victims that was lodged to the Supreme Court of Russia does not appeal against the life sentence passed earlier to Nurpashi Kulaev, survived attacker of school No. 1.

December 18, 2006 23:19

• Mironov demands from Beslan Commission to present its report before the end of the year

  Sergey Mironov, speaker of the Council of Federation, has put a task before the Parliamentary Commission on Beslan, to finalize its report by the end of 2006.

December 18, 2006 23:10

• Ulman's case: witnesses were taught how "to get off" from the prosecutor's office

  Today, the Ulman's case trial went on in Rostov-on-Don. Eight prosecution witnesses - defendants' colleagues who took part in the special operation to capture Hattab in January 2002 - were summoned to the court.

December 18, 2006 23:00

• Gegam Khalatyan: murders of Armenia natives go against the interests of Russian people

  Gegam Khalatyan, vice-president of the Union of Armenians of Russia, has told in his interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that throughout the latest fifteen years, the climate of extreme intolerance to Caucasus natives has been planted in Russia, and what happens today - is the result of this policy.

December 18, 2006 22:19

• Court refused to put 54 Borozdinovskaya residents on trial as co-claimants to the Ministry of Defence

  The Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has refused to bring into court as co-claimants 54 more persons under the suit on compensation of moral damage to residents of Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence.

December 18, 2006 22:17

• Chechnya will count its war damage from 1994

  A Commission of the Chechen Parliament has begun its work to calculate the whole damage caused to the Republic starting from 1994 - opening of the operation to set up the constitutional order.

December 17, 2006 17:45

• Karachayevo-Cherkessia: rector of Islamic Institute assaulted

  Today, Ismail Bostanov, rector of the Islamic Institute and deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of the Moslems of Karachayevo-Cherkessia and Stavropol Territory, has been taken to the city hospital of Cherkessk with firearm and incised wounds.

December 16, 2006 17:50

• Nazim Ibragimov: headquarters will be founded in Russia to address the problems of Azerbaijanis

  "Since the law on migration adopted in Russia and the government's decision on this issue could have created problems for the Azerbaijanis who live in this country, the order of the president of Azerbaijan has formed a state commission that has already started its work," Nazim Ibragimov, chairman of the state committee for work with Azerbaijanis living abroad, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

December 16, 2006 17:46

• Defendants on the case of dispersal of the picket in Politkovskaya's memory in Ingushetia fail to arrear at court

  The start of proceedings of the case on dispersal of Anna Politkovskaya's memorial picket, which had been appointed for 4 p.m. yesterday, December 15, at the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia, did not come about again. Magomed Mutsolgov, claimant's representative and chairman of the "Mashr" Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization (ANO), informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the fact.

December 16, 2006 17:41

• Yuri Shvets: Litvinenko was killed because of Russia's secret folder

  Alexander Litvinenko was murdered because he possessed information on a certain powerful Kremlin figure, his former partner told the BBC in an interview.