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23:10, 14 December 2006

Chechnya residents confirm a new outbreak of mass children disease

About thirty children-residents of Staroschedrinskaya village of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya have been taken ill again with an unknown disease, officially treated as massive post-war mental disorder.

22:33, 14 December 2006

Azerbaijani ANS TV Channel lost half a million because of suspension

On December 13, Vakhid Mustafaev, president of the ANS TV Company, stated while talking to journalists that the Company people believed in a fair decision to be taken on the future of the ANS.

22:28, 14 December 2006

Anna Politkovskaya awarded Diploma of Sakharov's Prize

Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," was posthumously awarded a special Diploma of the Jury of Andrei Sakharov's Prize "For the Life Sacrificed to Journalism."

23:21, 13 December 2006

Polonium traces detected in two Lithuanian citizens after they visited London

Upon returning from London, two citizens of Lithuania underwent medical examination, which showed that they were "contaminated with polonium," Vigaudas Ushatskas, Ambassador of Lithuania to Great Britain.

23:14, 13 December 2006

International organizations welcome renewal of ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan

The OSCE Baku office and the representative of this organization for the freedom of press have positively accepted the decision to resume broadcasting of the ANS TV Channel in Azerbaijan.

22:15, 13 December 2006

Court session on dispersal of picket in memory of Politkovskaya appointed on December 15

At 4:00 p.m. on December 15, the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI) will start considering an application lodged by the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People on illegal decision of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran, which had prohibited a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 this year, and actions of the Interior Department of Nazran and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia who violently dispersed the protest action.

22:12, 13 December 2006

Culture Centre to be opened in burnt-down restaurant in Kondopoga

The "Chaika" restaurant in the town of Kondopoga, which was burnt down in the course of mass disorders in September, will be rebuilt into a culture-leisure youth centre.

22:08, 13 December 2006

Widow of journalist killed in Azerbaijan was granted political asylum in Norway

Rushana Guseinova, widow of Elmar Guseinov, assassinated journalist, received political asylum in Norway, and together with her son Aslan is already in the territory of this country.

23:24, 12 December 2006

Trial of Pyatigorsk imam continues in Stavropol Territory

In the course of court sessions on the case of Anton (Abdullah) Stepanenko, imam of Pyatigorsk mosque (Stavropol Territory), the defence evidences are now considered.

23:21, 12 December 2006

Interpol comes down to Litvinenko's case

Timur Lakhonin, head of the Russian Interpol Bureau, has reported that this organization is now engaged in the inquiry into Litvinenko's case.

23:19, 12 December 2006

Law higher school student kidnapped in Chechnya capital

In the Staropromyslovskiy District of the capital of Chechnya, members of unidentified power agencies have kidnapped Salambek Omarov, 20, a local citizen and a third-year student of the Law Department of the Gudermes Branch of the Makhachkala Institute.

22:07, 12 December 2006

In November, Russia deported 940 natives of Georgia

In November, Russia deported more Georgian citizens that during three previous months altogether.

22:00, 12 December 2006

Ulman hopes for acquittal

Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has started a trial on Ulman's case.

23:18, 11 December 2006

Azerbaijan will resume ANS TV Channel broadcasting

Operation of the ANS TV and Radio Company will restart in Azerbaijan. The Company itself has informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" about the fact. In the words of Ms. Sevil Nurieva, one of the leading journalists of the Channel, the decision has been made today by the National Board for Television and Radio Broadcasting (NBTRB).

23:15, 11 December 2006

Most of Beslan victims did not appeal against Kulaev's verdict

Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the victims of Beslan school seizure in September 2004, has stated that most of his clients find the sentence to Nurpashi Kulaev to be just and fair.

22:27, 11 December 2006

98.58 percent has voted for Nagorny Karabakh constitution

On December 10, Nagorny Karabakh held a referendum on its constitution, which was attended, as of the data on 7:30 p.m. of December 10, by 83.71 percent of those eligible for voting.

22:24, 11 December 2006

Litvinenko's relatives make conditions to meet investigators from Russia

The relatives and friends of Alexander Litvinenko who live in Great Britain are ready to meet the investigators of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office, but only provided their safety is guaranteed.

22:15, 11 December 2006

Russian human rights activists will demand cancellation of the NGO Law

Russian human rights activists will strive for cancellation the Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as being non-constitutional. The decision was made on Sunday at the 2nd Congress of Human Rights Activists in Moscow.

23:00, 9 December 2006

Russian Public Prosecutor's Office sending its investigators into Litvinenko's case to Great Britain

The Russian Public Prosecutor's Office plans to send its investigators engaged in the case of the death of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB employee, to Great Britain.

22:56, 9 December 2006

Deportees from Russia brought to Georgia

Early on Saturday, December 9, more than 70 Georgian citizens deported from Russia were brought by a special air flight of Georgian Airways to Tbilisi.

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