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May 29, 2007 15:14

• Estemirova: Chechnya is replete with falsified cases on participation in illegal armed formations

  Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen Branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," has stated that the cases when employees of power agencies, while imitating their fight against militants, are goofing on innocent people in Chechnya are "as many as one wishes."

May 29, 2007 13:14

• "Memorial" Society tells on terror and distortions of Putin's policies

  The Corriere della Sera newspaper has retold the manifesto of the Moscow Human Rights Society "Memorial," with which the Society presents itself to the Oslo Jury - the "Memorial" has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

May 29, 2007 11:43

• Moscow refutes information on student's confession of murder of 37 natives of Caucasus

  The investigators deny the nationalist character of the massacres of "Caucasians" in Moscow, allegedly accomplished by two students from the Russian capital.

May 28, 2007 22:13

• Trial on Ulman's case will continue without three defendants

  The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has made a decision to go on with proceedings despite the absence of three out of the four defendants - Eduard Ulman, Vladimir Voevodin and Alexander Kalaganskiy (only defendant Alexei Perelevskiy is present in the courtroom).

May 28, 2007 21:07

• On June 6, the court will consider the cassation of Mikhail Trepashkin's defence on custody toughening

  On June 6, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court will consider the cassation appeal against the decision of the Tagilstroj District Court of the city of Nizhni Tagil of March 9, 2007, according to which the custody regime for Mikhail Trepashkin, a political prisoner serving his term at the Correction Colony (IK-13), was toughened (transfer from settlement-colony into general regime colony).

May 28, 2007 20:48

• Russian CC to consider the complaint of the relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has made a decision to consider, with participation of representatives of the parties, the appeal of the parents of the militants who died on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

May 28, 2007 20:39

• Izmailov: two residents of Chechnya are Politkovskaya's killers

  Anna Politkovskaya's colleagues from the "Novaya Gazeta" have progressed a lot in their investigation and found it necessary to tell the story. "We have identified the customers of the murder," Vyacheslav Izmailov, a former officer of the Russian Army, now a journalist of the newspaper engaged in the investigation, says.

May 28, 2007 19:24

• Schoolboy confesses of murdering dozens of Caucasian natives

  A scandalous case about crimes committed on motives of national hatred is investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the South-West District of Moscow: a young skinhead has confessed of murdering 37 persons, including Caucasian natives.

May 28, 2007 18:57

• Russia receives documents on Lugovoj's extradition to Great Britain

  The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received and delivered to the State Office of Public Prosecutor the documents on extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoj accused by the British authorities of murdering FSB ex-officer Alexander Litvinenko.

May 28, 2007 17:59

• One of earlier closed mosques reopens in Kabardino-Balkaria

  One of the five mosques closed by the authorities in August 2004 has reopened in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in the "Aleksandrovka" dwelling district.

May 28, 2007 16:43

• Opposition web site blocked in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, the satirical web site Tinsoмbeti.com was hacked and blocked. People at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Security are sure that the hacker's attack was undertaken under the command of Azerbaijani authorities who are resolutely and regularly criticising the web site.

May 26, 2007 21:36

• NGOs of South Ossetia: our people will never reconcile with live within Georgian state

  Today, the NGOs of the Republic of South Ossetia have disseminated their Appeal to International Community. The Appeal was sent to the United Nations, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), OSCE, NATO, and European NGOs and public organizations.

May 26, 2007 19:19

• Representatives of Abkhazian NGO arrive to Nagorny Karabakh

  At the NGO Resource Centre (RC) of Stepanakert, a meeting took place of the leaders of NGOs of Nagorny Karabakh with Batal Kobakhiya and Liana Kvarcheliya, representatives of the Centre for Humanitarian Programmes of Abkhazia.

May 26, 2007 18:54

• Criminal case initiated on mass fight in Stavropol

  In the city of Stavropol, in the evening of May 24, a mass fight burst out near one of the casinos, in which, by different sources, from 100 to 300 young people took part. As a result of the fight, Gilani Ataev, a 2-year law student of the Modern Humanities Academy, was killed.

May 26, 2007 18:31

• Azerbaijan will get connected with Nakhichevan by railway via Turkey

  Azerbaijan is negotiating with Turkey on construction of a branch line from the basic Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway. The branch will run to the Turkish city of Igdyr and further to the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

May 26, 2007 15:19

• Azerbaijani journalist asks for political asylum in Russia

  Sardar Alibeili, editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani Nota Bene newspaper, has applied for political asylum in Russia and lodged a respective petition to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Azerbaijan.

May 25, 2007 23:32

• Minsk OSCE Group: regions around Nagorny Karabakh should be returned to Azerbaijan

  In the course of the meetings in Yerevan and Baku, the co-chairmen of the Minsk OSCE Group Bernard Fussier and Yuri Merzlyakov have discussed the basic principles of Karabakh settlement with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

May 25, 2007 22:21

• Georgia: meeting of Chochiev and Antadze was not planned

  The press service of the authorities of South Ossetia has disseminated a statement that "because of the sharply aggravated situation in the conflict zone, a consultative meeting should have taken place in Tskhinval today of co-chairmen of the South Ossetian and Georgian parts of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) Boris Chochiev and Merab Antadze."

May 25, 2007 21:11

• Georgia: South Ossetia opens fire on Georgian villages

  Tonight, the Ossetian party has opened fire in the direction of Georgian villages located in the Grand Liakhva Gorge.

May 25, 2007 18:52

• Riots resumed in South Azerbaijan

  The protest actions against by arrest of Nadir Mekhdi Garabagi took place in Dzhulfa, Iran, and in Tabriz, the largest city of South Azerbaijan.