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January 24, 2007 23:14

• PACE demands from Russia to run a parliamentary investigation of Politkovskaya's murder

  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is going to call both Chambers of the Federal Assembly of Russia to hold an independent inquiry into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya in October 2006.

January 24, 2007 23:09

• Pavel Lyuzakov, author of "Kavkaz-Center," released

  On January 19, having served his complete sentence of two years at a general security corrective colony of the Nyrob settlement in the Perm Territory, Pavel Lyuzakov, permanent author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web-site of Chechen separatists and the editor of the "Svobodnoe Slovo" (Free Word) newspaper of the Democratic Union, got liberty.

January 24, 2007 22:26

• Advocate of Borozdinovskaya residents: judge refuses to request crime proofs

  On January 25, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow will continue the process on the suit of 42 inhabitants of the village of Borozdinovskaya of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya towards the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).

January 24, 2007 22:20

• Picket held in Moscow against the ban of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship"

  In the evening of January 23, at Solovetskiy Boulder in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow, a picket was held in defence of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF), after the court ruling to liquidation it was confirmed yesterday by the Supreme Court of Russia.

January 24, 2007 22:16

• "MK": Magomed Vakhaev will become president of Chechnya

  On Saturday, January 20, the Kremlin held discussions of the candidature of a president of Chechnya, who will soon replace Alu Alkhanov.

January 23, 2007 22:46

• Court chair challenge rejected at the trial of Khudyakov and Arakcheev

  Today, at the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don), at the trial on the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, who are charged of murdering peaceful Chechens, Sergey Arakcheev has declared a challenge to the court.

January 23, 2007 22:43

• EU diplomats were not let into the courtroom where the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" was banned

  "Our consciousness before Russia that we respect is clean. We have done everything for the country to preserve its dignity, but its authorities have smashed us down the pavement," Oksana Chelysheva, deputy executive director of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF), gave her comments to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the today's decision of the RF Supreme Court to uphold the verdict of the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court to liquidate the organization.

January 23, 2007 22:40

• MNS of Azerbaijan: customer of Dink's murder was never trained in the country

  The International Herald Tribune newspaper asserts in the article on the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in Turkey that Yasin Haial, the customer of the editor's murder, underwent training in Chechens' camps in Azerbaijan.

January 23, 2007 22:38

• The Supreme Court has stopped the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship"

  Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has upheld the decision of the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court on liquidation of the inter-regional public organization "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF).

January 23, 2007 22:35

• Meeting of Moslems dispersed in Azerbaijan

  On January 21, policemen forced a group of believers who wanted to honour the memory of shahids out of the Shahids' Alley in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

January 22, 2007 23:56

• HRC "Memorial": refugees from Ingushetia are under threat of resettlement to North Ossetia at law

  On December 26, 2006, the Prigorodny District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) held a court session in the village of Oktiabrskoe on a civil suit of the administration of the Prigorodny District of the RNO-A and administration of the dwelling settlement Maiskiy of the RNO-A towards the residents of the refugees' settlement in Maiskiy (19 families).

January 22, 2007 23:32

• Yu. Saveliev is ready to present his report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia

  Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and a member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the causes and circumstances of the act of terror in Beslan, has confirmed his readiness to deliver his alternative report on Beslan to the parliament of North Ossetia, should the deputies approve this decision.

January 22, 2007 22:33

• Bush may bypass the Senate and appoint Hogland the ambassador to Armenia

  US president George Bush has again offered Richard Hogland to the Senate as the would-be US ambassador to Armenia.

January 22, 2007 22:27

• Russian society condemns the murder of Armenian journalist in Turkey

  Representatives of Russian society have issued a joint statement condemning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the "Akos" Armenian newspaper.

January 22, 2007 22:15

• Azerbaijani journalists: Hrant Dink's murder is a provocation against Turkey

  While talking to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot," Mekhman Aliev, Director of the IA "Turan," has condemned the murder of Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of an Armenian newspaper, and called it an anti-Turkey provocation.

January 20, 2007 22:29

• Berezovskiy declares conditions of his interrogation on "Litvinenko's case"

  Boris Berezovsky has explained to journalists, on what conditions he is ready to meet Russian inspectors in London to be interrogated on Litvinenko's case.

January 20, 2007 22:25

• Azerbaijani law defenders threat to complain against Russia to the Council of Europe

  Azerbaijani human rights activists can apply their complaint to the Council of Europe in connection with deportation of Azerbaijani citizens from Russia.

January 20, 2007 22:23

• The Russian State Duma has passed a bill aimed to strengthen the fight against extremist editions in Dagestan

  On January 19 the State Duma of the Russian Federation voted 389 versus 26 for approval in the first reading of the bill initiated by the National Assembly of Dagestan that entitles the public prosecutor to go to court for recognition of information materials to be extremist not only at the location of the organization that has published such materials, but also at the place of detection and distribution of them.

January 20, 2007 22:21

• L. Dorogova: refusal to give out bodies of the militants perished on October 13, 2005, aggravates the situation in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Advocate Larissa Dorogova, a Bar member of Kabardino-Balkaria, who is representing the interests of the relatives of those perished during the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, gave her comments in an interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" on the situation with the decision on the "issue of giving out of the bodies."

January 20, 2007 22:19

• Eight persons already detained in Turkey on Hrant Dink's murder

  Today, in the centre of Yerevan, in the Square named after Charles Aznavur, belonging to the "Moscow" movie theatre, an action was held in memory of Hrant Dink, a well-known public figure of Turkey, a journalist of the Armenian origin.