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April 29, 2006 20:58

• Azerbaijan denies any CIA prisons in its territory

  Azerbaijan rejected the information about secret CIA prisons located in its territory.

April 29, 2006 20:54

• In Chechnya, a local citizen was kidnapped and shot dead by unknown persons

  In Chechnya, unknown persons have kidnapped and killed a local citizen, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic informed today.

April 28, 2006 20:48

• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta": temporary residence centres (TRCs) of Chechnya are in better order that the streets of Grozny

  Despite declarations of Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, that the women living in temporary residence centres (TRCs) "have forgotten what is housekeeping and house work, and would not take a brush," the tent camps are in better order that the central cities of Grozny, the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" (Independent Newspaper).

April 28, 2006 15:50

• In Ingushetia, one of the refugees detained in Ordzhonikidzevskaya settlement released

  On April 25, in the course of operative-search actions in temporary residence centres of refugees in the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of the Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, two forced migrants from the Chechen Republic - Bislan Maaev, born in 1981, and Aslambek Ahmedov, born in 1968, were detained.

April 28, 2006 15:45

• Chernobyl liquidators of Rostov-on-Don think that money payouts instead of privileges is a government's deceit

  Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident implications from Rostov-on-Don think that replacement of privileges for monetary payments is another deception of the government.

April 28, 2006 15:42

• Sergey Enikolopov: closing refugees' camps in Chechnya is fair to some extent

  Experts think that Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction to liquidate Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) refugees may be fair to some extent.

April 28, 2006 15:33

• Human rights activists protest against closing refugees' camps in Chechnya

  According to human rights activists, authorities of Chechnya have started to close regional Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) of forced migrants who have no other roof over their head.

April 28, 2006 15:28

• In Azerbaijan, they wait for another pardon decree

  Before May 28 - the Republic Day - Ilkham Aliev, president of Azerbaijan, may sign another Pardon Decree. Elmira Akhundova, MP and member of the Pardon Commission under the president of the Republic, told about it in her talk with journalists.

April 27, 2006 15:24

• In Azerbaijan, the Committee Against Tortures visited disciplinary battalion

  Elchin Bekhbudov, chairman of the Committee Against Tortures in Azerbaijan, jointly with Bairam Sadykhov, his deputy, conducted a monitoring of the disciplinary battalion located in the Salianskiy District and subordinated to the Chief Administration of Military Police.

April 24, 2006 15:22

• Militiamen stopped human rights activists from picketing in the Krasnodar Territory

  Eduard Mktrchyan, Akhmad Choloyan and Vadim Karastelyov, members of the "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee" departed from Novorossisk to Krasnodar to take part in a picket against militia voluntarism committed in the village of Gulkevichi.

April 22, 2006 15:17

• Trial of human rights activist Boliev in Dagestan will continue on Monday

  In Khasavyurt (Dagestan), the court process on human rights activist Osman Boliev, head of the Dagestan regional public organization "Romashka," accused of storage, acquisition and bearing of firearms, will continue on Monday, April 24.

April 22, 2006 15:12

• Armenian Security Service agents took away and beat oppositionist's bodyguards

  On April 21, about 1 p.m., not far from Erebuni police station in Yerevan, 12 unidentified persons, eight of them in masks, stopped the car of Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "Novye Vremena" (New Times) Armenian Party, and his accompanying cars.

April 21, 2006 23:42

• Chief federal inspector for Stavropol Territory inspected Kochubej colony

  Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory, has inspected, together with Alexander Korobeinikov, Chief Federal Inspector for the Stavropol Territory of the machinery of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the South Federal District, the observance of the requirements of the law at enforcement of criminal punishments at the Federal State Institution - Corrective Colony No. 2 of the Administration of the Federal Punishment Enforcement Service for the Stavropol Territory.

April 21, 2006 23:29

• In Dagestan, at the trial of human rights activist Boliev, defence evidences were presented

  In Dagestan, in the town of Khasavyurt, the trial continues on the case of Osman Boliev, human rights activist, head of the Dagestan regional public organization "Romashka," accused of storage, acquisition and bearing of firearms.

April 21, 2006 15:08

• Father of murdered Ilman Umaev released in Chechnya

  On April 19 in the afternoon, Eisa Umaev, father of Ilman Umaev and uncle of Anzor Umaev, killed the day before after detainment by the officials of the MIA of Chechnya, was released and returned home to the village of Sayasan.

April 21, 2006 15:02

• In Ingushetia, jury acquitted defendant charged of attack on the Republic

  On April 21, the Jury of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingushetia acquitted Magomed Aspiev, accused of committing the crimes covered by Articles 209, part 2, 285, part 3, and 222, part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (CCRF).

April 20, 2006 23:26

• Parliament of Chechnya called to create an inter-branch commission for searching the missing people

  The parliament of Chechnya has declared that the problem of missing people could not be addressed without setting up an inter-branch commission at the federal level.

April 19, 2006 23:14

• Additional information on kidnapping and murder of Sayasan citizens arrived from Chechnya

  The Committee "Civil Assistance" received additional information on yesterday's kidnapping and murdering of citizens of the village of Sayasan, Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya.

April 19, 2006 23:11

• Information on murders and kidnappings arrives from Chechnya

  Today, the editorial board of the "Caucasian Knot" received information from the Committee "Civil Assistance" about the events in the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya.

April 19, 2006 23:04

• Valentina Melnikova: Ministry of Justice is trying to close "Soldiers' Mothers"

  Valentina Melnikova, Executive Secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers of Russia (UCSMR) stated that the authorities are planning to stop the public organization "Soldiers' Mothers of Russia" in a judicial procedure.