News

May 25, 2007 15:15

• Advocate of Azerbaijani ex-Minister for Economic Development thinks him to be a political prisoner

  Litigation on the case of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister for Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is conducted with serious violations and in fact in closed regime.

May 25, 2007 14:26

• A citizen of Armenia killed in Moscow

  Another citizen of Armenia, Ashot Tigranyan, 30, was murdered in Moscow.

May 24, 2007 22:36

• Court would wait for the report on searching Ulman

  The proceedings on Ulman's case continued in Rostov-on-Don. Only one of the four defendants - Alexei Perelevskiy - has appeared at the courtroom.

May 24, 2007 21:24

• Ahmetgaliev: criminal case against Dzutsev is connected with his civil stand

  Ramil Ahmetgaliev explained that the pretext of charges against Dzutsev should be sought in the general tendency "to cut oxygen" to NGOs and activists.

May 24, 2007 20:40

• Newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" stopped

  Shakhvaled Chobanoglu, Chief Editor of the newspaper "Real Azerbaijan," said that he made this decision in protest against attacks of the authorities.

May 24, 2007 18:29

• Strasbourg Court accepts Tsakoevs' complaint from Kabardino-Balkaria

  European Court in Strasbourg sent a notification that the complaint on the fact of death of Rasul Tsakoev, resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, was accepted to consideration.

May 23, 2007 23:04

• Consideration of Beslan militiamen's case postponed till May 29

  The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that the court session on the case of the employees of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit) accused of criminal negligence entailing mass death of people during the act of terrorism in Beslan School was postponed till Tuesday, May 29, because of the judge's illness.

May 23, 2007 22:48

• YouTube cancels a video clip about tortures in Chechnya finding it excessively cruel

  Editorial board of the "Kavkaz-Centre" has received a notification from the YouTube service about removal of the video clip laid out by the web site and demonstrating tortures in Chechnya, since it shows "much violence"; and then – an anonymous letter running that the clip was removed at the request of the Kremlin.

May 23, 2007 22:19

• Kabardino-Balkaria: relatives of deceased militants ask to return automobiles

  The residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, whose relatives perished on October 13, 2005, complain of illegal confiscation and dekitting of automobiles by the employees of power agencies.

May 23, 2007 22:06

• Mufti of Chechnya recognizes the fact that young people leave for the militants

  Sultan Mirzaev, Mufti of the Chechen Republic, has admitted that within the recent months about two dozens of residents from different villages of the Republic have gone away to join the militants who hide in the mountains.

May 23, 2007 20:14

• Case against participant of the meeting on Kondopoga events stopped

  The Public Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has stopped the criminal case initiated against Alexander Potkin (Belov), leader of the Movement against Illegal Migration, for absence of essential elements of offence.

May 22, 2007 22:58

• United Nations to help Georgia with strategy of better life for refugees

  The UN High Commissioner for Refugees will help Georgia to finance the program of refugees' registration and implement the state strategy aimed to improve their living standards.

May 22, 2007 22:53

• Public Chamber of Chechnya supports claims against Republic's Public Prosecutor's Office

  A scandal around Republic's Office of Public Prosecutor continues in Chechnya.

May 22, 2007 22:43

• Dagestan: militant killed, three peaceful residents and militiaman wounded

  At 7:30 p.m. a skirmish burst out at the bus station of the city of Kaspijsk (Dagestan) that has resulted in one casualty and four persons with injuries of various gravity: three occasional passers-by and a militiaman.

May 22, 2007 22:08

• "Beslan Mothers": power officers will be amnestied

  Another court session is over in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on the case of power officers of the Pravoberezhny ROVD (District Interior Unit).

May 22, 2007 20:23

• Azerbaijan: journalist Fatullaev accused of terrorism

  Officers of the Ministry for National Security (MNS) made a search of the offices of newspapers "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan."

May 21, 2007 23:09

• Human rights defenders help to file 60 complaints against police in Tallinn

  Within the recent three weeks, the Tallinn-based human rights organization "Information Centre for Human Rights" has helped people who addressed through the only Estonian telephone "hot line" for the victims of mass disorders caused by the Bronze Soldier dismantling in filing 60 complaints against the police actions.

May 21, 2007 22:55

• Experts: harder fight on extremism can be used against opposition

  Russia is toughening its struggle against extremism. The State Duma has passed amendments to the Criminal Code concerning this sort of crimes in the first reading.

May 21, 2007 22:41

• Petrov: Russians apply to European Court because of Chechnya conflict and imperfect trials

  Alexander Petrov, deputy director of the Russian Representative Office of the NGO Human Rights Watch, has explained how the Strasbourg Court builds its relations with the Russian Federation and its citizens.

May 21, 2007 21:51

• Newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" will continue

  The newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" will restart this week, editor Shakhveled Chobanoglu told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.