News

August 01, 2007 15:59

• President of Dagestan holds a meeting on kidnapping

  On August 1, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting on the problem of kidnappings that are frequent in the Republic. The meeting was attended by heads of the Republic's law enforcement bodies and representatives of human rights and public organizations.

August 01, 2007 12:31

• Court rejects Aslamazyan's complaint against inspection of "Educated Media"

  The Tverskoj Court of Moscow has recognized lawful the pre-investigatory inspection undertaken in relation to the management of the Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews") on suspicion of illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering.

August 01, 2007 10:18

• Krasnodar Territory: judicial solution of Kurds' citizenship problem

  The Korenovskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory is hearing the case of four Kurds who are trying to become Russian citizens.

July 31, 2007 18:54

• Re-trial of "Cadet" case starts in Chechnya

  On July 30, the Octiabrskiy district court in Grozny started a re-trial of the case of senior lieutenant Sergey Lapin, former officer of Nizhnevartovsk district internal affairs department (radio call sign "Cadet"), charged with torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, resident of the Chechen capital.

July 31, 2007 15:14

• Soldiers who drove their comrade-in-arms to suicide in Krasnodar sentenced to 7 and 4 years in penal colony

  Krasnodar garrison military tribunal has passed sentences to two soldiers on the case of non-statutory relations in Krasnodar region.

July 31, 2007 15:08

• South Osetia accuses Georgian MIA of killing an Osetin

  The South Osetia authorities accuse Georgian MIA officers of killing Felix Ghaghiyev, resident of South Osetia, who died in hospital after beating.

July 31, 2007 13:23

• All defendants in the case of murder of anti-fascist Timur Kacharava found guilty

  Today, the St-Petersburg jury court has passed a verdict on the case of murder of Timur Kacharava, student and anti-fascist, and assault on his friend Maxim Zghibay in November 2005.

July 31, 2007 13:01

• Prosecutor's office in Kabardino-Balkaria denies the existence of Vakhabits' lists

  The prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria has responded to the request of Kabardino-Balkarian public human rights center on the issue of a search conducted in the house of Ruslan Karabashev, resident of Nalchik, and his registration as a supporter of radical Islam.

July 30, 2007 18:00

• Medical examination of arrested journalist conducted in Azerbaijan

  Today, a second medical examination of arrested journalist Mushfig Guseinov has been conducted at Baillovski pre-trial prison.

July 30, 2007 16:47

• Arrested journalist continues hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  Faramaz Allakhverdiev, journalist of the "Nota Bene" newspaper arrested in Azerbaijan, has been on a hunger strike for ten days already.

July 30, 2007 14:10

• Chechen Ombudsman refutes information on allocation of 47 million rubles for searching missing persons

  Mass media report that the Ombudsman on human rights in the Chechen Republic has been allocated 47 million rubles for searching missing persons. This information is absolutely far-fetched, states Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev.

July 30, 2007 14:05

• "Novaya Gazeta": haemodialysis equipment delivered to Ingushetia after а a hunger strike of patients

  Five new haemodialysis installations have been delivered to the republican hospital in Nazran. In order to get this, patients had to give up food and treatment for two days.

July 30, 2007 13:52

• 40% of entrants in the SFD gave bribes at entering universities

  A poll among internet users in the SFD shows that about 40 percent of the respondents gave bribes at entering universities.

July 28, 2007 15:27

• ChCNS: old men and children were beaten during special operation in Ingushetia

  Many of the Russian militaries who conducted today a special operation in Ali-Yurt village of the Nazran District of Ingushetia, were in the state of alcoholic intoxication, behaved rudely, offended old men, women and children, and threatened them with murder.

July 28, 2007 11:48

• Case on threats to SRChF deputy head closed for finding no guilty persons

  The Prosecutor's Office has stopped investigation of the criminal case initiated on March 30, 2005, on crime attributes stipulated by Articles 129 (slander) and 130 (insult) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

July 28, 2007 11:41

• Picket against local authorities suspended in Kislovodsk

  In the city-resort of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory), a picket started on July 13 against actions of local authorities, which was to end on August 13, has been suspended.

July 28, 2007 11:19

• Shelling of FSB Unit building investigated in Ingushetia

  On July 27, at about 10:30 p.m., unknown persons shelled from automatic weapons and grenade launchers the building of the FSB Unit in the city of Magas, the capital of Ingushetia.

July 28, 2007 10:35

• SAM of Dagestan blames Wahhabites for murdering Ramazanov

  The Spiritual Administration of Moslems (SAM) of Dagestan is convinced that the organizers of the murder of churchman Kuramagomed Ramazanov were Wahhabites, who "for a long time consider representatives of the official clergy to be lawful military targets."

July 27, 2007 22:14

• Dagestan buried the churchman assassinated in a terror act

  Today, funeral has passed in Chirkej village of Kurmagomed Ramazanov, deputy mufti of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Dagestan, and his brother, who died during yesterday's terror act.

July 27, 2007 17:05

• Prosecutor's Office wants to stop "Pravo-Zaschita" and lock up Dmitrievskiy

  On July 30, the Court of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region will consider the claim of the Regional Prosecutor's Office on liquidation of the "Pravo-Zaschita" (Human Rights Defence) newspaper.