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21:56, 13 October 2006

Russian-Chechen friendship society closed

On Friday, the Nizhni Novgorod town court liquidated the human rights organization "Russian-Chechen friendship society".

21:44, 13 October 2006

Anniversary of mutiny in Nalchik: versions of the events greatly differ

On October 13, 2005, at 9 a.m. sharp, 13 targets were simultaneously attacked in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria: KBR MIA, RF FSS Directorate for KBR, Nalchik departments 1,2,3 of internal affairs, Center "Т", Nalchick border guards, federal tax service directorate for KBR, KBR MIA riot militia squad, KBR MIA patrol militia, a traffic militia post, and two shops selling ammunition.

21:39, 13 October 2006

Cynologist never inspected school building in Beslan

The relatives of those killed and the victims who suffered during the capture of school No1 in Beslan demand that Igor Terekhov, cynologist of the Pravoberezhny district internal affairs department who had checked the school on the day of the attack, should be brought to criminal responsibility.

19:37, 13 October 2006

No Nobel peace prize for Chechen human rights activist

Yesterday morning, on October 12, Lidiya Yusupova receiced a call on her mobile from an unknown man who threatened her in the Chechen language.

22:03, 12 October 2006

The European Court: Russia is responsible for execution of five persons in Chechnya

The European Court of Human Rights today held Russia responsible for the summary execution of five members of the Estamirov family in Chechnya in February 2000.

21:09, 12 October 2006

RF authorities to finance more than 1100 NGOs from the state budget

The president's administration has completed compilation of the final list of non-profit organizations to be supported from the state budget.

21:08, 12 October 2006

VIIth part of expert Saveliev's report on Beslan published

Yury Saveliev, author of the "Beslan: hostages' truth" report made public late in August, has prepared a new, seventh part of it.

21:05, 12 October 2006

USA prepared to investigate murder of Politkovskaya

The US State Department does not rule out the possibility of the Russian party inviting American experts for the investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, stated Sean McCormack, official US State Department representative on October 11.

19:32, 12 October 2006

Turkish writer who recognizes genocide of Armenians gets Nobel prize

Orkhan Pamuk, a Turkish writer, has become a 2006 Nobel prize winner in the area of literature.

19:27, 12 October 2006

Preliminary hearing on the "Ulman's case" put off again

The North Caucasus military district has put off the preliminary hearing of the fourth trial on the case of the special task force of federal troops under the command of captain Eduard Ulman accused of killing six Chechen civilians.

23:19, 11 October 2006

Lidia Yusupova, human rights activist from Chechnya, may be awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Lawyer Lidia Yusupova, employee of the "Memorial" Human Rights Centre's representative office in Grozny, Chechnya capital, who is specializing on violation of human rights in Chechnya, may become the third laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize from Russia during the whole history of this prestigious award.

23:12, 11 October 2006

A powerful explosion thundered close to the Chechen Culture Ministry

A powerful explosion thundered in the Leninskiy District of Grozny in the cross of the Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Krasnoznamennaya Streets.

20:53, 11 October 2006

Mother of Elina Ersenoeva, the last Basaev's wife, kidnapped in Chechnya

On October 6, in the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny Rural District of the Chechen Republic, the members of unknown power units kidnapped mother of earlier disappeared Elina Ersenoeva, a string correspondent of the "Chechenskoye Obschestvo" newspaper and the last wife of Shamil Basaev.

20:48, 11 October 2006

Victims under Ulman's case accuse the convicts' advocates of protracting the process

Today, the North-Caucasian Military Tribunal convoked the parties of Ulman's case to take part in the preliminary hearing, however, the court session failed.

20:45, 11 October 2006

Kadyrov: I had no reasons to kill Politkovskaya

Ramzan Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, told that he had no motives to persecute journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

00:53, 11 October 2006

Authorities of Georgia detained three ministers of South Ossetia

Without explaining the reasons, the authorities of Georgia detained in the village of Ergneti the members of the South Ossetia government: Merab Chigoev, minister of justice, Jemal Jigkaev, minister of public health, and Alla Jioeva, minister of education.

23:47, 10 October 2006

Georgia casts official xenophobia accusations on Russia

The parliament of Georgia has unanimously adopted a statement officially condemning the authorities of Russia for escalating xenophobia in relation to ethnic Georgians.

21:28, 10 October 2006

South Ossetia accuses Georgian policemen of casual arms handling

"An assertion published in Georgian media that two Georgian policemen were wounded at the blockpost in the village of Kekhvi as a result of fire launched by the Ossetian party has nothing to do with reality," Ms. Zema Kulumbegova, press service head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

21:24, 10 October 2006

Prosecutor's office wants to liquidate the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society

On October 9, the prosecutor's office of the Nizhni Novgorod Region served a copy of statement of claim on liquidation to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, executive director of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society".

21:21, 10 October 2006

Rasul Kudaev's complaint on tortures returned to prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria capital

The Nalchik City Court has considered a complaint lodges by Rasul Kudaev on the ruling of the Nalchik prosecutor's office to abandon opening a criminal case on application of physical force to him by the members of law enforcement bodies and retuned it back to the Nalchik prosecutor's office for additional investigation.

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