News

February 27, 2007 19:15

• Trial of OMON fighters will continue tomorrow in Krasnodar Territory

  A court trial has started in Sochi of OMON (Special Militia) members of the Head Department of Internal Affairs ("GUVD") of the Krasnodar Territory accused of excess of powers during the mass clean-up ("zachistka") in the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp, which was committed in summer of 2006.

February 27, 2007 19:12

• Lev Ponomaryov: human rights defenders would not approve Kadyrov's personality cult

  While Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, EU Commissioner, is getting ready to attend the human rights conference in Grozny, capital of Chechnya, Russian human rights defenders continue to boycott Ramzan Kadyrov's invitation.

February 26, 2007 22:18

• Leader of youth movement "Eni Fikir" tortured in Azerbaijan

  Ruslan Bashirli, chairman of the "Eni Fikir" Movement, who is serving his penalty in Azerbaijan, was beaten, shaved clean and put into the dungeon.

February 26, 2007 22:17

• Embassy of the Russian Federation refutes the statement of the Georgian parliamentary

  The Russian Embassy has drawn attention to mass media reports about a statement made by Mr. G. Targamadze, Chairman of the Committee for Defence and Security of the Parliament of Georgia, that Mr. V. Kovalenko, Russia's Ambassador to Georgia, allegedly held some negotiations with a number of Georgian political parties on the issue, as one could understand, on Georgia's neutrality and its non-accession to NATO.

February 26, 2007 22:14

• Office of Public Prosecutor is auditing "Memorial"

  The Tver Inter-District Procuracy of Moscow has requested documents from the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," clarifying who and on what funds had published a manual for the Russians willing to send a complaint to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.

February 26, 2007 22:11

• Public in Chechnya ask to release Arsamakov brothers

  The public circles of Chechnya are expressing their extreme concern of the fact that brothers Yunus and Yusup Arsamakov, kidnapped on February 8, 2006, have not been found so far.

February 26, 2007 22:09

• V. Kocharyan: there are no prisoners of war and hostages in Nagorny Karabakh

  The lists of the State Commission for matters of prisoners of war, hostages and missing people contain 800 residents of Nagorny Karabakh. General-Major Victor Kocharyan, Chairman of the Commission, told about it in his interview to the Public Television of Nagorny Karabakh.

February 24, 2007 23:15

• Нuman Rights Watch calls president of Azerbaijan to protect journalists

  The Нuman Rights Watch Organization is insistently calling Ilkham Aliev, president of Azerbaijan, to take steps to stop the policy of impunity for the violence applied to journalists, and to ensure the observance of the country's international legal obligations in the sphere of freedom of expression and freedom of press, runs the message of Holly Cartner.

February 24, 2007 23:12

• Anthony Brenton: investigation into Litvinenko's case is almost over

  Anthony Brenton, British Ambassador to Russia, has stated that in his opinion the investigation of the poisoning case of ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko will be completed in the coming few weeks.

February 24, 2007 23:08

• Over sixty thousand refugees have already returned to Abkhazia

  As of today, more than 60,000 refugees have returned to Abkhazia. President Sergey Bagapsh has announced the fact on air of the Abkhazian TV in answer to the question on when the return of refugees would start to the whole territory of the Republic.

February 24, 2007 23:02

• Party in power and opposition in Georgia cannot agree on the country's accession to NATO

  In the evening on February 23, at the meeting of the president of Georgia with representatives of Georgian mass media in Tbilisi's Sacrebulo (self-ruling body), M. Saakashvili stated that "certain citizens of the country who stand against Georgia's accession to NATO lack wisdom."

February 24, 2007 22:59

• President of Abkhazia: the problem of Kodor Gorge should be settled politically

  In the opinion of Sergey Bagapsh, president of Abkhazia, the political means of settling the problem of the Kodor Gorge have not yet been exhausted.

February 23, 2007 22:53

• Chechnya remembers victims of 1944 deportation

  February 23 is marked in Chechnya as the day of memory and national mourning. In February 1944, under the Kremlin's order, more than half a million Chechens and Ingushes were deported from the places of their permanent residence.

February 23, 2007 22:45

• South Ossetia: Georgia has disrupted the MCC meeting in Istanbul

  The South Ossetia has accused Georgia of another disruption of the meeting of co-chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for Georgian-Ossetian settlement, which should have taken place in Istanbul from February 28 to March 2.

February 23, 2007 22:30

• At least 15 persons detained in Moscow for participation in march for peace in Chechnya

  Today in Moscow, at least 15 persons have been detained by "OMON" (special militia) during suppression of a non-sanctioned march of anarchists against the war in Chechnya and militarism, two minors among them.

February 23, 2007 22:17

• Lady-human rights defender from Chechnya nominated to Nobel Prize for Peace

  A total of 181 candidates have been nominated to the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace, including 46 organizations.

February 22, 2007 23:18

• Proceedings on private's suicide started in Krasnodar

  In the Krasnodar Territory, the Military Court of the Krasnodar Garrison has started a trial on the case on non-manual relations between soldiers that resulted in a suicide of a rank-and-file soldier.

February 22, 2007 23:02

• Militiamen demand "emergency" pay-outs in Ingushetia

  Discontent grows among the workers of law enforcement bodies in Ingushetia. Militiamen demand to cover the indebtedness in extra pay-outs for the service in emergency conditions.

February 22, 2007 22:57

• Abkhazia refutes information on burning houses by "Group of Georgian Patriots"

  Ruslan Kishmaria, plenipotentiary representative of the president of Abkhazia in the Galskiy District, refutes the information, disseminated by a number of Georgian TV companies that the members of the "Group of Georgian Patriots" have burnt down twelve houses in the District.

February 22, 2007 21:57

• Ramzan Kadyrov has addressed Chechen nation

  Acting president of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has announced his address on the occasion of the anniversary of deportation of Chechens.