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September 25, 2007 20:49

• Prosecutor's office of Rostov Region denies miner's death during picket in Zverevo

  According to the press service of the Rostov Regional Prosecutor's Office, Kravchenko, Mikhail Romanovich, former drift miner of the Zverevo Mining Administration (retired in 2000), did not take part in the picket that started in the city of Zverevo on September 14, 2007.

September 25, 2007 20:46

• Journalist arrested in Azerbaijan

  On September 22, Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev, regional correspondent of the "Eni Musavat" newspaper for the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan, was sentenced by the Sharur District Court to a 15-day administrative arrest.

September 25, 2007 20:43

• Azerbaijani ex-Minister of Public Health warns about a would-be attempt on him

  Togrul Babaev, defender of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health, has informed that an attempt is being prepared on his client.

September 25, 2007 20:39

• The States are anxious about the situation with mass media in Azerbaijan

  The US position in relation to the freedom of the media and status of journalists in Azerbaijan is very simple and transparent: journalists should not be subject to imprisonment because of their expressed thoughts.

September 25, 2007 20:37

• Court states Arakcheev's sub-machine gun unfit for examination

  Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has continued hearing the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya.

September 25, 2007 20:34

• Acquittal verdict on murder case of Sardaryan, a native of Armenia, cancelled

  The Supreme Court of Russia has cancelled the non-guilty verdict in the case of murdering Arthur Sardaryan, an Armenian of 19, committed in a Moscow suburban electric train in May 2006.

September 24, 2007 21:35

• CPJ to Honor Four International Journalists

  The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four courageous journalists from Russia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico with 2007 International Press Freedom Awards in November.

September 24, 2007 10:59

• South Ossetia: Georgians kidnap residents of Kabardino-Balkaria

  "Citizens of Russia were kidnapped by the Georgian police in the village of Avnev of the Znaur District of South Ossetia, occupied by power agencies of Georgia," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the United Press Centre of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO).

September 24, 2007 10:55

• Bagapsh: human rights activists should take care of captured Abkhazian frontier guards

  President of Abkhazia has informed that negotiations on releasing Abkhazian border servicemen are conducted with Thomas Hammerberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and with those international structures who should deal with it.

September 24, 2007 10:50

• Abkhazian Ministry of Defence: Georgian militaries shot dead two Abkhazian prisoners

  Sources in Abkhazia are asserting that two Abkhazian servicemen were executed by Georgian militaries already after capture, and they had rendered no resistance.

September 24, 2007 10:44

• Ingushetia.Ru: crimes are not registered in the Republic

  Everywhere in Ingushetia, local militia bodies are obeying to the oral order of Musa Medov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Ingushetia (RI), not to register crimes connected with bombardments, explosions and other acts of terror.

September 24, 2007 10:34

• Deputy of Ichkerian Parliament kidnapped in Chechnya is at large

  Vagap Tutakov, former special representative of Aslan Maskhadov in Strasbourg and a deputy of the Chechen Parliament of 1997 convocation, kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10 in the southwest of the Republic, has been released.

September 22, 2007 15:09

• Encoding of mobile telephone conversations lifted in Adygea

  On the eve of the celebrations dedicated to Adygea's accession to Russia, along with the whole system of law and order protection activities, preventive security measures are taken in various spheres.

September 22, 2007 15:06

• Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria discusses xenophobia issues

  A roundtable was held at the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre dedicated to xenophobia issues. Denga Khalidov, Corresponding Fellow of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences of Russia, took part in the debates.

September 22, 2007 15:03

• Homes of Chechen natives searched in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  On September 21, under the criminal case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, members of law enforcement bodies conducted searches of several houses of the Chechen natives who live in the Chudov District of the Novgorod Region.

September 22, 2007 14:59

• MIA of Chechnya: "Riyadus Salikhijn" was not involved in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train

  The "Riyadus Salikhijn" grouping, which has again declared itself to be responsible for blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, was liquidated and could not have committed this terror act, Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, has stated.

September 22, 2007 14:55

• Broadcasts on Islam are put off the air in Azerbaijan

  Cases have recently become frequent in Azerbaijan, when broadcasts on religious topics are urgently taken out of television programs. Thus, the ANS TV channel has cancelled a popular broadcast "Allah Khaggy" (Swear by Allah).

September 21, 2007 19:18

• Picket dated to the eighth anniversary of Ryazan events held in Moscow

  The "Day of Mistrust" - a picket against the war in Chechnya dated to the eighth anniversary of the "FSB exercise" in Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999, was held in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow.

September 21, 2007 19:12

• Kabardino-Balkaria: relatives ask to increase food parcels to persons on remand during Ramadan holiday

  In Kabardino-Balkaria, relatives of the defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have filed a petition to A. Yu. Sovrulin, head of the investigatory group of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South federal District (SFD), asking to increase food parcels to the inmates.

September 21, 2007 19:09

• Ali Insanov accuses Azerbaijani President of frauds

  Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has accused President Ilham Aliev of appropriation of "oil" money and setting up the military-police regime in the country.