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October 02, 2007 21:54

• Aushev brothers, residents of Ingushetia, seek defence by the authorities and human rights activists

  The Aushev brothers, detained by employees of non-established power agencies in the territory of Chechnya and released after the protest action in Nazran are afraid of further prosecution by power agents; therefore, they ask the RF leadership and the international community to stand for their right.

October 02, 2007 21:46

• Bastrykin: investigators have six versions of Politkovskaya's murder

  Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee, recently founded at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, has reported about the progress in the most resonant murders.

October 01, 2007 11:34

• Another Okruashvili's supporter arrested in Georgia

  The authorities of Georgia have arrested Amiran Giguashvili, leader of the oppositional movement "For United Georgia" and a friend and supporter of ex-Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili.

October 01, 2007 11:30

• Human rights activists win the "tea case" in Krasnodar Territory

  The court decisions have been received on the so-called "tea case" in relation to human rights activists of the Krasnodar Territory who had been fined for a non-sanctioned tea-drinking party with foreigners.

October 01, 2007 11:10

• Less kidnappings registered in Chechnya

  General Arkadiy Edelev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, has stated in Grozny that the number of crimes connected with kidnappings has dropped fivefold in Chechnya.

October 01, 2007 11:05

• Authorities of Dagestan discuss recent terror acts

  On September 30, 11 persons were shot dead in Dagestan. Today, a sitting of the Security Council and a joint meeting with the heads of the Ministry of Defence and the workers of law enforcement bodies "On Operative and Social-Political Situation in Dagestan" were held in Makhachkala.

October 01, 2007 11:00

• Trepashkin suspects his advocate Lyubov Kosik of cooperating with the FSB

  Mikhail Trepashkin, a former FSB officer, has stated that Lyubov Kosik, his defender in the city of Nizhni Tagil, is working for the accusation and delivers his defence materials to them.

October 01, 2007 10:56

• Ten Moslems arrested during special operation in Azerbaijan

  As a result of a joint operation of the Ministry of National Security and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Fighting Organized Crime, accomplished in the village of Khudat of the Khachmaz District, religious literature was confiscated from the houses of several residents and about ten persons had been detained.

September 29, 2007 13:00

• CSIS: 49 steps towards ensuring human rights and safety in Northern Caucasus

  A joint report, prepared by the Initiative for Human Rights and Safety, Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Robert Bosch Foundation and entitled "49 Steps Towards Ensuring Human Rights and Safety in Northern Caucasus" has been published.

September 29, 2007 12:57

• Criminal prosecution of Khasan Didigov in the case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train stopped

  The criminal prosecution of Khasan Didigov accused of involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

September 29, 2007 12:52

• Girls wearing hijabs were not let to school in Azerbaijan

  During a week, the girls wearing hijabs could not get to their school lessons in the city of Sumgait (Azerbaijan).

September 29, 2007 12:48

• Political scientists: Okruashvili's arrest is a blunder of Georgian authorities

  The former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili was sentenced by decision of the Tbilisi City Court to two months of custodial arrest for the period of investigation.

September 29, 2007 12:41

• Funeral of religious figure grow into a meeting in Dagestan

  Practically all the residents of the village, as well as of the neighbouring ones, came to the funeral of Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, minister of the local mosque, who was killed today morning in the Dagestan village of Gubden. They regard that the murder was motivated by religious hatred.

September 29, 2007 12:37

• Social workers of Dagestan breached the rights of Chernobyl liquidators

  The Dagestan residents of the city of Kizilyurt, who suffered from radiation when liquidating the implications of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, failed to receive their due allowances.

September 29, 2007 12:25

• Relatives of Galaev brothers, killed in Ingushetia, released

  Three relatives of the Galaev brothers, who were arrested on September 27, have been released. The brothers were killed on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations.

September 28, 2007 12:14

• Irakliy Okruashvili's defenders were not admitted to the courtroom

  The advocates of the former Georgian Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili were not admitted into the courtroom, where his freedom restriction measure was decided.

September 28, 2007 12:10

• Participant of meeting in Georgia: we came not for the sake of Okruashvili, but for the sake of justice

  The several thousand strong protest action launched by the opposition parties at two p.m. at the building of the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi, is over.

September 28, 2007 12:05

• Ingushetia doubts that killed Galaev brothers were militants

  On September 27, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia reported about a special operation conducted in Sagopshi settlement of the Malgobek District, as a result of which brothers Said-Magomed and Ruslan Galaev, active participants of illegal armed formations, were assassinated.

September 28, 2007 12:02

• Ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan sent to remote colony

  Ali Insanov, former Azerbaijani Minister of Public Health, was sent to Colony No. 13 for further serving his punishment.

September 28, 2007 11:58

• Hunger strike of Zverevo residents suspended in the Rostov Region

  On September 28, Vladimir Vlasov, Public Prosecutor of the city of Zverevo, informed that the eight hunger-strikers had suspended their protest action.