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November 22, 2006 23:30

• Dagestan militia violently dispersed a rally of locals

  On November 22 in Makhachkala, several hundreds of residents of the Kazbekovskiy District of Dagestan tried to hold a meeting to demand dismissal of Amir Azaev, head of District administration.

November 22, 2006 23:28

• HRC "Memorial": power agencies are fully responsible for tortures and kidnappings in Chechnya

  On November 22, the Independent Press Centre held a presentation of the report named "Tortures in Chechnya: Stabilization of Nightmare."

November 22, 2006 22:48

• Iran plans to make short work of Azerbaijani journalist who offended Mohammed

  On November 21 in the Iranian city of Tabriz, students of religious schools held a protest action against the statements concerning Prophet Mohammed, published in Azerbaijani newspaper "Sanat," in publicist Rafik Tagi's article named "Europe and We."

November 22, 2006 22:46

• Armenia tries to understand why Armenians are assassinated in Russia

  "There are two reasons for killing Armenians in Russia. Firstly, the Russian society is sick with xenophobia, secondly, there is an order to kill Armenians in Russia," thinks Levon Ananyan, Chairman of Armenian Writers' Guild.

November 22, 2006 22:44

• 22 Georgian natives deported from Moscow

  Today, Russia has deported a group of Georgia citizens who were illegally staying in the Russian territory, Konstantin Poltoranin, press-secretary of the Federal Migratory Service, reported.

November 21, 2006 23:14

• Skaramella discloses secret of his meeting with Litvinenko

  Mario Skaramella gave a press conference for the first time after Alexander Litvinenko, former Russia's FSB agent, was poisoned.

November 21, 2006 22:11

• Recognition of situational examination to be illegal can change the course of investigating the Beslan terror act

  The decision of the Leninskiy Court of Vladikavkaz to recognize the complex situational examination, which has concluded innocence of the members of the hostage rescue operative headquarters, to be illegal and unjustified can radically change the investigation course of the basic case on the Beslan act of terror and bring into challenge certain conclusions of Torshin commission.

November 21, 2006 22:09

• Relatives of "Kavkaz-Tsentr" separatists' web-site author to appeal against the verdict

  Relatives of Boris Stomakhin, author of the "Kavkaz-Tsentr" (Caucasus-Centre) web-site of Chechnya separatists who was convicted to five years in custody, announced that they would appeal against the judgment.

November 21, 2006 22:07

• Human rights activists: fewer kidnappings in Chechnya now

  In the recent months less people have been kidnapped in Chechnya, however the Republic's authorities have failed so far to eradicate the problem completely, the human rights activists from the "Memorial" Russian Centre have stated.

November 21, 2006 22:04

• They think in Chechnya, Baisarov was doomed to be killed, not arrested

  In Chechnya, people think that liquidation of Movladi Baisarov, former commander of the "Gorets" (Mountaineer) special squadron was an act of intimidation, and they believe that his arresters were not going to leave him alive.

November 20, 2006 22:36

• Foreign Intelligence Service ("SVR") denies its involvement in poisoning Litvinenko

  The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation has refuted accusations of possible involvement in poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London.

November 20, 2006 22:34

• Journalist of the "Caucasus-Centre" Chechnya separatists' web-site sentenced to 5 years of custody

  The Butyrskiy District Court of Moscow has recognized guilty and sentenced Boris Stomakhin, editor-in-chief of the bulletin "Radical Policy" and journalist of the "Caucasus-Centre" web-site, to five years of imprisonment at a general custody treatment for excitation of religious hatred accomplished publicly with use of mass media.

November 20, 2006 22:30

• Attackers on the minister of culture of Kabardino-Balkaria got their penals

  The Izmailovskiy District Court of Moscow has sentenced three defendants on the case of attacking Zaur Tutov, minister of culture of Kabardino-Balkaria, for conditional deprivation of freedom in a colony-settlement for the terms from twelve to eighteen months.

November 20, 2006 22:28

• Baisarov, ex-commander of "Gorets" squadron, killed in Moscow

  The murder of the former commander of the "Gorets" (Mountaineer) special squadron, lieutenant colonel of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Movladi Baisarov became possible because the FSB operative shelter was removed from him after he had decided to evidence at the Military of the Office of Public Prosecutor on what happens in Chechnya.

November 20, 2006 15:31

• Gordievskiy: Litvinenko was poisoned under Kremlin order

  Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned under a direct order from the Kremlin, Oleg Gordievskiy, former resident of Soviet special services in Great Britain and one of major deserters from the KGB, has declared.

November 18, 2006 23:56

• A refugee from Chechnya disappeared in Azerbaijan

  Ruslan Eliev, 31, a refugee from Chechnya, has disappeared in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, under unclear circumstances.

November 18, 2006 22:23

• In North Ossetia, a family of come-back Ingush refugees was attacked

  About 10 p.m. on November 17, three unknown persons in camouflage and armed with automatic guns rushed into a private house in Kirova Street of the Dongaron village of North Ossetia.

November 18, 2006 22:21

• In North Ossetia, refugees' camp was cut off from heat and electricity

  For 12 days in a row already, the refugees of the settlement named "Maiskiy" in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia have been living in their unheated dillies, since on November 6 the authorities stopped gas supply, and on November 14 disconnected the camp from electricity.

November 18, 2006 22:19

• They tried to poison A. Litvinenko by thallium

  The British police have initiated a criminal case on poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, former FSB officer.

November 18, 2006 22:17

• Two oil wells blown up in the Grozny District of Chechnya

  Today at night in the Grozny District of Chechnya two oil wells have been blown up.