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January 11, 2006 19:08

• Rebel surrenders in Chechnya

  A member of illegal armed groups gives himself up to Chechen law enforcement agencies.

January 11, 2006 19:05

• Two abducted in Abkhazia's Gal district

  The republic's internal affairs minister says that this is done by Georgian special services to destabilise the situation in the bordering Gal district.

January 11, 2006 19:01

• Seven Russian soldiers killed in one day in Chechnya

  Seven Russian servicemen were killed and seven were wounded in Chechnya in 24 hours from 9 to 10 January.

January 10, 2006 16:03

• Caucasus on fire

  There are international terrorist network cells in all regions in the South federal district, according to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

January 10, 2006 15:44

• Brothers abducted in Chechnya

  Besides, a 16-year-old boy disappears from Avtury, Shali district.

January 09, 2006 17:50

• Georgian police detain Russian peacekeepers commander

  The car in which Colonel Kazantsev and three more people, including the wife of the commander, were driving was detained in the centre of Zugdidi.

January 09, 2006 17:47

• Prisoner disappears from jail

  Mr Rasul Kudayev, charged with taking part in the rebel attack on Nalchik, disappears from the temporary detention isolator in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

January 09, 2006 17:43

• Federal column attacked in Chechnya

  Two federal servicemen were killed and another five sustained wounds in the Kurchaloi district.

January 08, 2006 18:35

• Two missing found dead

  The bodies of two police officers are found, thought earlier to have gone missing on the first day of the operation for detention of rebels in Dagestan's Untsukul district.

January 08, 2006 18:33

• Three Nalchik attack partakers killed in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Two of the three rebels killed during today's special operation in the Lesken district may be foreign citizens.

January 06, 2006 20:34

• Torture issue raised again in Georgia

  The chairman of the Georgian Justice Ministry's Penalty Enforcement Department is accused of organising torture and killings of prisoners.

January 06, 2006 20:26

• Covert move against opposition

  Azerbaijan's education minister has ordered heads of national higher education institutions to fire teachers sympathising with the opposition, a source says.

January 06, 2006 20:24

• 'Federal forces were attacking a deserted base,' says expert

  The officer reminds that a group of Dagestani policemen were suddenly ambushed near the tunnel several months ago.

January 05, 2006 15:38

• Concerns about killings of journalists

  Human rights defenders are concerned about the freedom of speech situation worldwide, in Russia, and the Caucasus.

January 05, 2006 15:36

• Another Beslan attack partaker may be alive

  There is information that it is Omar Sheikhulayev whom Beslan victims saw among the terrorists who captured the school in September 2004.

January 05, 2006 15:34

• Police abuse may be serving as cover

  Law enforcement agencies in Achkhoi-Martan, Chechnya, refuse to accept statements from relatives of abducted people.

January 05, 2006 14:51

• Disappearing in Chechnya

  Two girls go missing in the republic's Gudermes district.

January 05, 2006 14:49

• Several killed in Chechnya

  Several federal servicemen are killed and wounded in shootings and explosions in Chechnya's districts.

January 05, 2006 14:47

• Two killed in Dagestan

  Two riot police officers are killed in a skirmish with rebels in Dagestan, and several more are wounded.

December 30, 2005 13:13

• 2005 summarised for Armenia

  Human rights defender Mikael Danielian enumerates some human rights violations in Armenia in 2005.