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April 05, 2007 22:18

• Kadyrov's presidency taken ambiguously in Chechnya

  Today, Ramzan Kadyrov has officially entered the post of the president of the Chechen Republic. Many people in Chechnya are positively assessing Kadyrov's activities in his position, however, there are many of those who stick to a different point of view.

April 05, 2007 22:00

• Firemen inspect the "Educated Media" Foundation

  Another regular inspection was made to the premises of the "Educated Media" Foundation headed by Manana Aslamazyan. The fact has become known to the "Echo Moskvy" Radio Station. This time the office of the Foundation, which is under special attention of law enforcement bodies, was inspected by firemen.

April 04, 2007 23:34

• Shamba: Georgia getting ready for war on Abkhazia

  The main threat to stability originates from Georgia and the top Georgian officials who hide their true aims behind peace-loving rhetoric. Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, made this statement.

April 04, 2007 23:31

• Dudieva: gym of Beslan school should be left as it is

  Susanna Dudieva, chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, thinks that neither a temple nor a mosque can replace the "live" evidence of the Beslan tragedy - the gym.

April 04, 2007 23:26

• Doctors who mutilated a child face trial in Krasnodar

  Today in Krasnodar, a preliminary hearing was completed on a medical malpractice case, which has resulted in arm amputation of newborn Sofia Kulivets.

April 04, 2007 22:10

• Persons of attackers on the mosque in Dagestan remain unidentified

  On March 30 an armed attack was made on the mosque "Yuzhnaya" (Southern) located in the outskirts of the capital of Dagestan, as a result of which several mosque visitors became victims.

April 04, 2007 22:00

• Prosecutor demanded to send Ulman to colony for 23 years

  The prosecutor has demanded to recognize all the defendants in the Ulman's case guilty and sentence them to deprivation of freedom for the term from 18 to 23 years.

April 03, 2007 23:48

• Militiamen are accused of tortures in Kabardino-Balkaria

  The Office of Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria has completed investigation into the criminal case in relation to employees of the Elborus District Interior Department ("ROVD") suspected of beating teenagers.

April 03, 2007 23:45

• Prosecution has presented its arguments on Khudyakov-Arakcheev's case

  On Tuesday, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don completed hearing evidences of the accusation party at the trial of interior officers Khudyakov and Arakcheev accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya on January 15, 2003.

April 03, 2007 23:10

• Georgia insists on closing Russian check points in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  "Georgia has its position of principle in relation to Russia's joining the WTO, and it assumes legitimization of frontier-customs points and closure of illegal check points in the separatists' sections of Georgian-Russian border," Giorgi Arveladze, Minister of Economy of Georgia, has stated at a briefing upon termination of the sitting of Georgian government.

April 03, 2007 22:04

• A number of resonant assassination attempts solved in Dagestan

  Dagestan Prosecutor Igor Tkachov has announced today disclosure of the murder of Bitar Bitarov, prosecutor of the town of Buinaksk, committed on the 8th of last August, and attempts on Adilgirej Magomedtagirov (on August 8, 2006, and February 4, 2007).

April 03, 2007 22:00

• Chechnya asks Putin to help to find three thousand lost persons

  The authorities of Chechnya are preparing an application to the president of Russia with a request to help to find three thousand missing residents of the Republic.

April 02, 2007 23:38

• Victims of Grozny-Moscow train explosion claim 4.6 million roubles

  A moral and material damage compensation claim worth more than 4.6 million roubles was lodged today by the persons who were injured at the Grozny-Moscow train explosion in summer of 2005, Valery Prilepskiy, advocate of one of the defendants, has reported.

April 02, 2007 23:36

• Ulman's group was denied additional psychological examination

  The Court has rejected the petition of the defence of Eduard Ulman, who is accused of executing local residents in 2002 in the vicinity of the Chechen village of Dai whom he found in a car, to subject the defendants to an additional forensic psychological examination.

April 02, 2007 23:33

• Oreshkin: Russia pays high to Chechnya for its imperial mentality

  A couple of days are left till Ramzan Kadyrov's inauguration. Today, foreign newspapers write that this day will become the mourning day for all human rights activists in the world. In their opinion, a man involved in many crimes is becoming the official leader of Chechnya.

April 02, 2007 22:52

• Shuttle van blown up in Azerbaijan

  On April 1 in the morning, a bomb exploded in a shuttle van ("marshrutka") on the route from Udzhar to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. As a consequence, Ragim Askerov, 37, a resident of Hachmaz, who was carrying the bomb, was killed, and several passengers were wounded.

April 02, 2007 22:45

• Head of Georgia's MIA again accuses Russia of bombarding Kodor

  On March 11, when bombarding the upper section of Kodor Gorge, military helicopters used Russian-made controlled shells model "Ataka" (Attack), Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, told in his interview to the "Rustavi-2" TV Company.

April 02, 2007 22:35

• Ulman's case: advocates ask for a new psychological examination of defendants

  Ulman's advocate Roman Krzhechkovskiy insists on an additional psychological examination of the defendants. He has lodged a respective petition today to the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.

March 31, 2007 23:40

• Speaker of Chechnya's parliament: PACE commissions have annoyed us to death

  The leadership of Chechnya has categorically disapproved the initiative of the European Parliament to send a commission to the Chechen Republic for studying the situation in the region. This was declared by Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov.

March 31, 2007 23:17

• Opposition newspaper journalist beaten in Kalmykia

  On March 30, at 7 p.m., in the city of Elista (Kalmykia), at office of the Kalmyk Republic's Branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), unknown persons attacked Vitaly Shulenin, editor of the "Leninskiy Puts" (Lenin's Way) opposition newspaper of the Kalmyk Republic's Branch (KRB) of the CPRF.