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December 12, 2006 22:00

• Ulman hopes for acquittal

  Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has started a trial on Ulman's case.

December 11, 2006 23:18

• Azerbaijan will resume ANS TV Channel broadcasting

  Operation of the ANS TV and Radio Company will restart in Azerbaijan. The Company itself has informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the fact. In the words of Ms. Sevil Nurieva, one of the leading journalists of the Channel, the decision has been made today by the National Board for Television and Radio Broadcasting (NBTRB).

December 11, 2006 23:15

• Most of Beslan victims did not appeal against Kulaev's verdict

  Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the victims of Beslan school seizure in September 2004, has stated that most of his clients find the sentence to Nurpashi Kulaev to be just and fair.

December 11, 2006 22:27

• 98.58 percent has voted for Nagorny Karabakh constitution

  On December 10, Nagorny Karabakh held a referendum on its constitution, which was attended, as of the data on 7:30 p.m. of December 10, by 83.71 percent of those eligible for voting.

December 11, 2006 22:24

• Litvinenko's relatives make conditions to meet investigators from Russia

  The relatives and friends of Alexander Litvinenko who live in Great Britain are ready to meet the investigators of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office, but only provided their safety is guaranteed.

December 11, 2006 22:15

• Russian human rights activists will demand cancellation of the NGO Law

  Russian human rights activists will strive for cancellation the Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as being non-constitutional. The decision was made on Sunday at the 2nd Congress of Human Rights Activists in Moscow.

December 09, 2006 23:00

• Russian Public Prosecutor's Office sending its investigators into Litvinenko's case to Great Britain

  The Russian Public Prosecutor's Office plans to send its investigators engaged in the case of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, to Great Britain.

December 09, 2006 22:56

• Deportees from Russia brought to Georgia

  Early on Saturday, December 9, more than 70 Georgian citizens deported from Russia were brought by a special air flight of Georgian Airways to Tbilisi.

December 09, 2006 22:51

• Human rights activists doubt of Russia's fulfilment of the UN Committee Against Tortures' recommendation

  On December 8, the Internet Hall of the Central House of Journalists hosted a press conference of the Coalition of Russian Human Rights Organizations dedicated to publication of final recommendations adopted by the UN Committee Against Tortures.

December 09, 2006 22:42

• Politkovskaya posthumously awarded an ombudsman's medal

  Vladimir Lukin, human rights commissioner (ombudsman) in the Russian Federation, has held today, on the eve of the International Day for Human Rights Defence, a decoration ceremony with his medal "Hurry Up to Make Good."

December 09, 2006 22:35

• International Helsinki Federation requests to investigate detention circumstances of amnestied persons in Ingushetia

  The International Helsinki Federation (IHF) is concerned with illegal detainment and initiation of a criminal case against Mokhdan Elgakaev and Myukhdi Aslambekov, residents of Ingushetia who were acquitted from criminal responsibility.

December 08, 2006 23:50

• Kabardino-Balkaria: criminal case initiated against members of the Department for Fighting Terrorism

  The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" has learnt from unofficial sources that the prosecutor's office of Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has initiated a criminal case against unidentified employees of the "T" Centre under Article "Excess of official powers with application of violence and special means."

December 08, 2006 23:38

• Patrushev denies using polonium in Chechnya

  Statement by Akhmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists in London, about use by Russian special agencies of radioactive materials in Chechnya is a parcel of rubbish, Nikolai Patrushev, FSB director, has declared.

December 08, 2006 21:06

• State Duma has postponed introduction of juries in Chechnya till 2010

  The State Duma has made an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure in the third and final reading to postpone introduction of the court of jury in Chechnya till 2010.

December 08, 2006 21:03

• FSB knows from where Chechen separatists got their funds

  The FSB (Federal Security Bureau) of Russia has decoded the archives of Jordanian mercenary Abu Havs, one of Chechen separatists' leaders. He was killed in Khasavyurt.

December 08, 2006 21:01

• Verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev may be cancelled

  The Supreme Court has appointed to consider on December 26 possible cancellation of the verdict passed to Nurpashi Kulaev, the only survived participant of Beslan school seizure.

December 07, 2006 23:40

• Prosecutor-General's Office of Russia initiates a criminal case on Litvinenko's murder

  The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office has initiated a criminal case on the fact of assassination in London of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee.

December 07, 2006 23:36

• Anna Politkovskaya is awarded the "World Press Hero" title

  The International Press Institute (IRI) has awarded the title of the "World Free Press Hero" to Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously.

December 07, 2006 22:10

• Human rights activists are searching those guilty of death of Georgian native Manana Jabelia

  On December 6, the Independent Press Centre held a press conference on the death of Manana Jabelia, a forced migrant from Abkhazia.

December 07, 2006 22:08

• EU head expresses concern with the murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko

  Taria Halonen, president of Finland, called the situation with assassinations of Anna Politkovskaya and Alexander Litvinenko, who criticized the Kremlin policy in Chechnya and in Russia as a whole, to be alarming.