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February 09, 2006 20:00

• Another case of non-statutory relations in the army: a warrant officer in Krasnodar beat a sergeant and broke his spleen

  A criminal case was initiated in Krasnodar for abuse of powers by a warrant officer of a military unit. This has been reported by Natif Gadjimetov, assistant of military prosecutor of the North Caucasus Military District. Warrant officer Stanislav Shkriabunov beat junior sergeant, resulting in the regular term serviceman having his spleen amputated.

February 09, 2006 19:00

• People accused of murdering Amutinov, head of Dagestan pension fund, found not guilty in Makhachkala

  Today, the court ruling on the case of attempted murder of Amuchi Amutinov, deputy-Premier of Dagestan and manager of the republic's pension fund, has been announced.

February 09, 2006 19:00

• Authorities close the office of international NGO PEN-centre

  The Russian office of PEN-centre, international organization of writers and poets, will possibly be closed, announced Alexander Tkachenko, head of the centre, in an interview to Radio Liberty.

February 09, 2006 18:00

• Persons kidnapped in Gudermes district, Chechnya, still missing

  The search for the kidnappers and the persons kidnapped on the night of February 9 in the Gudermes district, Chechnya, has yielded no results.

February 08, 2006 19:00

• A soldier got two years for beating his comrade-in-arms in Pyatigorsk (Stravropol Territory)

  In Stavropol Territory, a private serving a regular term at a Russian MIA military unit located in Nalchik (KBR) has been sentenced to two years of imprisonment at a penal colony for non-statutory relations.

February 08, 2006 18:00

• Human rights activists who arranged a picket by FSB building in Moscow against pressure on NGOs under trial

  Today, the magistrate of Meschanski district in Moscow considers the administrative case of violation of rules for conducting public events. Under trial are the Moscow human rights activists who participated in the picket on the Lubyanka Square by the FSB building. The human rights activists protested against accusation of non-profit organizations (NGOs and NPOs) of their links with foreign secret services, runs the statement of the "Public Verdict" Foundation handed over to the "Caucasian Knot."

February 07, 2006 22:00

• Lawyers claim torture of person charged with murder of Khlebnikov

  The lawyers of one the defendants in the case of murder of Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of the Forbes magazine Russian version, have filed a complaint to the Russian Federal Service for Enforcement of Punishments (FSIN) and special rapporteur on human rights at the UN Committee against Torture and other Inhuman Treatment in connection with the pressure exerted on their defendant, reports RIA "Novosti."

February 07, 2006 21:00

• Refugees in Chechnya and Ingushetia to remain without support due to suspension of activity of Danish organizations

  Forty thousand Chechen residents may find themselves on the edge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of activity of the Danish Committee on Refugees.

February 07, 2006 21:00

• Prosecutor's office to appeal against sentence to Dmitrievskiy, editor of "Pravozaschita" newspaper

  The Nizhni Novgorod prosecutor's office states that it is going to appeal against the sentence to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, chief editor of the "Pravozaschita" newspaper. The "Gazeta.Ru" correspondent reports that the prosecutor's office intends to file an appeal in the course of this week.

February 07, 2006 20:00

• An IRCC Grozny office employee kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in Chechnya

  The fate of the employee of the Grozny office of the International Red Cross Committee who was kidnapped in Chechnya by unidentified persons in summer of 2003 is still unknown.

February 07, 2006 18:00

• Russian officer responsible for shelling the settlement of Starye Atagi under trial in Chechnya

  On February 6, the first session on the case of a Russian officer, through whose fault the village of Starye Atagi in Grozny district, Chechnya, was shelled, started in Grozny garrison military tribunal.

February 06, 2006 19:00

• Krasnodar Territory human rights activists connected with "spy scandal"

  On February 4, one of the Krasnodar Territory TV Channels and a local newspaper suggested that human rights activists are connected with secret services, in particular, with British intelligence, runs the message from the "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" submitted to the "Caucasian Knot."

February 06, 2006 18:00

• 440 cases of violation of compensation payments to victims of Chechnya conflict considered in Stavropol Territory

  During the period from 2000 to 2005, the courts of Stavropol Territory have considered 440 civil cases connected with compensation for damage to persons who suffered as a result of crisis in Chechnya.

February 04, 2006 12:10

• Attempt to kidnap an acquitted Chechen resident from Ingushetia Supreme Court

  On February 2, 2006, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ingushetia completed the hearing of the case of Murad Iraklievich Margoshvili, a Chechen resident accused of crimes under Article 205, Part 3 (terrorism), Article 209, Parts 1, 2 (banditism), Article 222, Part 3 (Illegal acquisition, storage, transportation or wearing of arms and explosives), Article 223, Part 3 (Illegal manufacture of arms), Article 34, Part 3 (Illegal trade in hard or poisonous substances).

February 04, 2006 12:06

• A large-scale clean-up in a Chechnya settlement

  On February 3, a clean-up ("zachistka") was carried out in the Kotar-Yurt settlement of Achkhoi-Martan district, Chechnya.

February 03, 2006 11:51

• Yuri Dzhibladze: the TV story where a German human rights activist accuses Dmitrievskiy falsified

  "It very much looks like a forgery," Yuri Dzhibladze, president of Moscow's Centre for Development of Democracy and Human Rights, said who was monitoring the Dmitrievskiy's trial progress.

February 03, 2006 11:12

• "Memorial": Verdict to Dmitrievskiy - a further step towards liquidation of freedom of speech in Russia

  The "Memorial" human rights centre has made a statement on the court trial over Stanislav Dmitrievskiy which runs that "the verdict to Dmitrievskiy is a further step towards liquidation of freedom of speech in the country."

February 03, 2006 11:06

• Т. Lokshina, "Demos" Centre: the declarative part of the Dmitrievskiy's sentence is a copy of the prosecutor's speech

  "The declarative part of the sentence to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy is a full copy of the presentation of the prosecution case at the hearing," stated today Tatiana Lokshina, chair of the board, Moscow's centre "Demos."

February 03, 2006 10:57

• Centre of Extreme Journalism: lenient sentence for Dmitrievskiy is a merit of journalists and public

  The sentence given today to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, human rights activist and journalist, has been commented on by Oleg Panfilov, director of the Centre of Extreme Journalism under the Union of Journalists.

February 03, 2006 10:49

• Nizhni Novgorod court to announce verdict on Stanislav Dmitrievskiy's case behind closed doors

  It has just become known that no observers are being let into room No 40 of the Soviet district court in Nizhni Novgorod where at 12.30 p.m., after a break, Judge Vitaly Bondarenko is expected to announce the verdict on the "Dmitrievskiy's" case.