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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.

December 30, 2005 13:06

• Abductions in Chechnya

  One of those abducted is a close relative of Mr Malik Saidullayev, a well-known Chechen businessman, according to some reports.

December 30, 2005 12:59

• Police disperse public meeting in Kabardino-Balkaria

  "All this is happening because Kabardino-Balkaria is not governed by politics, but by law enforcement and security agencies," says lawyer Larissa Dorogova.

December 29, 2005 18:26

• Students go on hunger-strike

  Students sent down from Azerbaijani higher education institutions for political motives also intend to conduct public meetings and pickets.

December 29, 2005 18:19

• Beslan commission's report cribbed

  Materials from the Prosecutor General's Office and the report of the head of the federal commission for Beslan coincide textually.

December 28, 2005 14:32

• Federal commission delivers report on Beslan

  Meanwhile, Beslan Mothers again point out that the report, provisional as it is, gives no names of those responsible for the understatement of hostage numbers in Beslan.

December 27, 2005 23:16

• Passions run high at Beslan trial

  Victims demand that the court should provide guarantees that North Ossetia's ex-president Alexander Dzasokhov will arrive at the trial.

December 27, 2005 16:30

• Public meetings may be banned on the sly

  The government of Kabardino-Balkaria is considering a ban on public meetings as killed rebels relatives plan a no time limit rally in Nalchik.

December 26, 2005 17:29

• Directive makes people homeless

  A protest action with the slogan <em>USSR Passports Cancelled, People Forgotten!</em> is conducted in the Krasnodar territory.