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May 15, 2006 22:50

• Patients refuse to take social services in the Volgograd Region

  In the Volgograd Region, thousands of heavy chronic patients in need of permanent use of expensive drugs applied for refusal from social services for 2006.

May 15, 2006 22:47

• Report of human rights activists about shooting of the meeting in Dagestan published

  The public commission for investigating the meeting dispersal in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25 this year arrived to the conclusion that human rights were severely breached in the Republic.

May 15, 2006 22:45

• Commandant of refugees' camp kidnapped in Ingushetia

  On Friday, May 12, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.

May 15, 2006 22:41

• Human rights activists ask Council of Europe to investigate messages on secret prisons in Chechnya

  The International Helsinki Federation for human rights called the Council of Europe to hold an investigation into the messages about secret prisons in Chechnya.

May 12, 2006 22:59

• Khlebnikov's case: court sanctioned Sadretdinov's arrest

  Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow issued a sanction to arrest Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, who was acquitted earlier on the case of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

May 12, 2006 22:57

• Sadretdinov, acquitted on Khlebnikov's case, faces another charge

  The Moscow prosecutor's office presented a fraud charge to Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov who was acquitted on the case of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.

May 12, 2006 13:12

• Hearings on beating lady-journalist Kirij in North Ossetia postponed

  Today, the court of Promyshlenny District of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has indefinitely postponed the hearing of the case on beating Olga Kirij, First Channel journalist.

May 12, 2006 08:31

• HRC "Memorial": from the second half of 2000, 3297 persons were killed in Chechnya

  According to the HRC "Memorial," starting from the second half of 2000 till today, a total of 3297 persons were killed in the territory of Chechnya.

May 10, 2006 12:50

• Human rights activists: authorities falsify data on shooting the meeting in Dagestan

  Speaking to Dagestan journalists, human rights activists stated that both the dispersal of the demonstration and the investigation of the circumstances of the case are carried out with multiple violations of the law.

May 10, 2006 12:49

• Armenia and Georgia are not among the members of the UN Council for Human Rights

  The membership of the new UN Council for Human Rights has been formed; the elections were held on May 9. 65 countries were candidates to 47 places in the Council. Armenia and Georgia failed to win the required number of votes.

May 10, 2006 12:20

• Human rights activists came to Dagestan to investigate the shooting of the meeting

  Today, on May 10, a delegation of human rights activists headed by Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights," and Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," arrived to Makhachkala to go on with the investigation of the events that had taken place in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan.

May 10, 2006 12:09

• Azerbaijan elected member of the Council for Human Rights

  In the course of the second voting round, Ukraine and Azerbaijan were elected members of the Council for Human Rights.

May 10, 2006 11:46

• State Duma deputy from Chechnya surprised with the Maskhadovs' application for political shelter

  Nobody is going to prosecute the family of Aslan Maskhadov, "there were no claims to the members of his family," therefore, it is not clear, what there motives are for applying for political asylum in Finland, Ahmar Zavgaev, State Duma deputy from Chechnya and member of the commission for problems of North Caucasus told.

May 09, 2006 11:53

• In Adygea, Aslan Bezrukov, leader of the Public Association "For Justice," remains in custody

  Aslan Bezrukov, an entrepreneur and activist, well-known in Adygea, is kept in custody.

May 09, 2006 11:37

• President of Finland will probably satisfy Maskhadov family's application on refuge

  Organization "World Chechen Congress" is trying to obtain political shelter in one of western countries for the family of Aslan Maskhadov, former leader of Chechen separatists.

May 09, 2006 11:31

• Family of Maskhadov, leader of Chechnya separatists, seeks asylum in Finland

  The family of Aslan Maskhadov, leader of separatists, killed in Chechnya, has applied for political asylum in Finland.

May 08, 2006 11:45

• "Voice of Beslan": Beslan children are prohibited to learn

  The public organization "Voice of Beslan" voices up against arrest of the property of the "Podmoskovny" Lyceum-Boarding School, founded by Mikhail Khodorkovskiy in the Koralovo manor.

May 08, 2006 11:26

• Forced migrants in Chechnya disagree with the activities of the Special commission

  Members of the special commission for improving the conditions in Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) of forced migrants continue, together with the members of law enforcement bodies, to examine refugee camps in the territory of Chechnya.

May 07, 2006 11:13

• Residents of Azerbaijani village of Georgia protest against unfair land allocation

  Residents of the village of Yagublu of the Dmanisskiy District of Region Kvemo Kartli-Borchaly of Georgia, where Azerbaijanis are compactly residing, in protest against unfair land allocation, held an action in front of the building of the State Chancellery of Georgia.

May 06, 2006 10:58

• "Amnesty International" states racial discrimination in the Krasnodar Territory

  On May 3, 2006 the major human rights organization "Amnesty International" presented its report "Russian Federation: Racial-Motivated Violence Orgy."