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January 17, 2008 14:20

• European Court: Russia to pay 110,000 euros for execution of Muscovites in Ingushetia

  The Russian budget will have to allocate almost 110,000 euros because of the murder by "federals" of two Moscow residents in Ingushetia.

January 17, 2008 14:16

• European Court passes two decisions against Azerbaijan

  The European Court for Human Rights has passed two more decisions against Azerbaijan.

January 17, 2008 14:13

• Kabardino-Balkaria: Nalchik SIZO inmates complain of oppressions against Moslems

  The inmates of the pre-trial isolation facility of the city of Nalchik, defendants in the criminal case on the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, complain of their custody conditions.

January 17, 2008 13:42

• Court to consider early release of Stomakhin

  The Tonshaevskiy District Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider a possibility of a conditional early release of Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the Chechen separatists' website named "Kavkaz-Centre", who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

January 17, 2008 13:26

• In Dagestan capital electricity supply breaks complicate the work of hospitals

  Because of absence of electricity in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, medical and social establishments have to use power generators, and residents are buying candles and pocket lanterns.

January 17, 2008 13:11

• Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice ignores messages about tortures and extortions in colony

  Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.

January 16, 2008 12:28

• Tbilisi Court refuses to cancel the election outcomes

  The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.

January 16, 2008 12:05

• "Beslan Mothers": prosecution of "Voice of Beslan" can cause interethnic collisions

  The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".

January 16, 2008 11:58

• In Chechnya power agents would not give out the body of murdered militant to his relatives

  Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.

January 16, 2008 11:50

• "Memorial": closure of "Peacekeeping Centre" in Chechnya is politically motivated

  In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".

January 16, 2008 11:35

• "Memorial" to verify information on tortures in Chechen Colony of Chernokozovo

  At this date, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has no information about tortures and rough violations of custody regulations in relation of the inmates of Colony No. 2 located in Chernokozovo settlement of Chechnya, but is going to check the information of this sort.

January 15, 2008 15:01

• MoE: explosion of apartment block in Zheleznovodsk was not terror act

  While making his comments on the reasons of the explosion of the apartment block in the city of Zheleznovodsk, Alexander Kolupaev, head of the South Regional Centre of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, has emphasized that the accident has nothing to do with a terror act, and what happened in Zheleznovodsk is just a household disaster.

January 15, 2008 14:57

• Chechnya: tortures in Chernokozovo not confirmed

  Representatives of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, who have visited Colony No. 2 located in the settlement of Chernokozovo, the Naur District of the Republic, found no confirmation of the data about tortures and beatings of the prisoners who are kept in this corrective establishment.

January 15, 2008 14:50

• United Opposition of Georgia starts its protest rally in Tbilisi

  A protest action of the United Opposition of Georgia has been launched in Tbilisi, in front of the Public Television building; the participants demand to hold the second round of early presidential election in the country.

January 15, 2008 14:40

• Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office demands to close foreign NGO branch

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic demands to liquidate the branch of the organization "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre", located in Grozny.

January 15, 2008 14:36

• Mass detentions of Gipsies continue in Volgograd Region

  In the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsk militiamen commit mass detentions of Gipsy nationals.

January 15, 2008 14:33

• In Dagestan power agents pursue the followers of Turkish theologian Said Nursi

  On January 15, a search was conducted and goods were confiscated from one of private shops in the capital of Dagestan. The owner of the shop regards that the actions of power agents were explained by his belonging to the followers of the Turkish philosopher and theologian Said Nursi.

January 15, 2008 11:30

• Kesaeva is satisfied with transfer of the "Voice of Beslan" trial to North Ossetia

  Today, the Nazran Court of Ingushetia has passed a decision to transfer the hearing on the case of recognition of the materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" to be extremist ones to North Ossetia in spite of the fact that the Acting Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia had insisted that the trial should take place in Nazran.

January 14, 2008 14:25

• 80 applicants for political asylum from Chechnya stay at the Paris airport

  The Paris airport Roissie-Charles de Gaulle is overwhelmed by applicants for political asylum from Chechnya. The refugees are in the conditions unfit for long stay of people.

January 14, 2008 14:22

• Victims of explosion in apartment block in Stavropol Territory are now six in number

  The number of casualties of the explosion of utility gas in the five-storey apartment block in Lenina Street in Zheleznovodsk has reached six persons.