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January 19, 2007 23:26

• Editor of Armenian newspaper killed in Turkey

  On January 19, at 3 p.m. local time, in front of the building of the editorial board of the Armenian weekly "Akos," published in Istanbul in the Turkish language, Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the edition and an Armenian by origin, was shot dead by three headshots.

January 19, 2007 23:19

• "Voice of Beslan": General Prosecutor's Office should take notice of Saveliev's report

  The victims of the Beslan terror act who have addressed the parliament of North Ossetia with a request to hear at its sitting in the presence of the victims the alternative report of State Duma deputy Yuri Saveliev, hope that the conclusions of the report will be recognized by the investigation.

January 19, 2007 21:30

• Azerbaijani Authorities grow hot over appeals to evict Russians out of the country

  Because of Russia's enacting new migratory laws, which have restricted the right of foreigners to trade there, the OLC has declared: "We demand from Russian leaders to put an end to discrimination of our compatriots who live in their country, otherwise the OLC will undertake concrete steps to suspend the operation of the Russian embassy in Baku and to evict Russians from Azerbaijan."

January 19, 2007 21:26

• Great Britain: Russia will hardly have Zakaev extradited

  Russia will have more difficulties to achieve a reconsideration of requests on extradition of the Russians who were granted asylum in Great Britain.

January 19, 2007 21:23

• All-Russian Human Rights Congress on situation in North Caucasus

  On December 10, Moscow hosted the Second All-Russian Congress in Defence of Human Rights. The Congress adopted a great package of resolutions: Solidarity and Cooperation (What can we oppose to the war in North Caucasus?).

January 18, 2007 23:34

• New trial on Khlebnikov's murder will start within 30 days

  The case files on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Forbes Russian version, have arrived to the Moscow City Court for retrial.

January 18, 2007 22:50

• European Court has accounted Russian authorities guilty of torturing Chechnya residents

  The authorities of Russia have been found guilty of torturing the residents of Chechnya.

January 18, 2007 22:47

• Beslan victims ask to hear Saveliev's report

  The victims of the terrorists' capture of Beslan school No. 1 (North Ossetia) have sent an open letter to the deputies of the parliament of the republic with a request to hold hearings of Yuri Saveliev, a member of the federal parliamentary commission for investigating the act of terror, who has prepared an alternative report.

January 18, 2007 22:41

• Kremlin: murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko are connected

  The Kremlin has linked together the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

January 18, 2007 22:24

• Activists of "Nord-Ost" complain of pressure by the authorities

  On January 18, 2007, a press conference "A Year to Presidential Election: Terror Victims Want the Truth" was held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

January 17, 2007 23:39

• HRC "Memorial": family of Chechnya residents is persecuted because of a relative militant

  The Musaev family, residents of the village of Avtury of the Shali District of Chechnya, addressed the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny.

January 17, 2007 23:37

• Amnesty International is aggrieved with Supreme Court's decision on the case of Lapin, guilty of tortures in Chechnya

  "We are afflicted with the decision of the Court on Sergey Lapin," Fredericka Ber, representative of the largest in the world human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) a AI's researcher for Russia, stated to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

January 17, 2007 21:33

• 42 lawsuits of Borozdinovskaya residents will be considered separately

  Each of the forty-two claims lodged by residents of Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya versus the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on compensation of moral damage will be considered separately.

January 17, 2007 21:30

• Imam Stepanenko's advocate and the second defendant Grudin beaten in Stavropol Territory

  On January 16, 2007, before the start of a court session in Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), a sentry beat Anton Stepanenko's advocate and Andrei Grudin, the second defendant in the case.

January 17, 2007 21:27

• The case of "Cadet," convicted for tortures in Chechnya, will be reconsidered

  On January 17, the Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to send the case of Sergey Lapin (radio call sign "Cadet"), criminal search senior lieutenant of the Interior Department of the city of Nizhnevartovsk, who was convicted for torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, a resident of Grozny, capital of Chechnya, to the first instance court for a new consideration.

January 16, 2007 23:17

• Azerbaijan releases the arrested editor of Internet-edition

  The Appellate Court of Azerbaijan has changed the restriction measure (arrest) in relation to Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, creator of the Internet web-site susmayaq.biz.

January 16, 2007 22:20

• At the process of the persons accused of killing peaceful Chechnya residents, Khudyakov was identified by his eyes

  Today, the North Caucasian Regional Military Court has continued the proceedings of the case of interior troops officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering Chechnya residents.

January 16, 2007 22:12

• K. Moskalenko: Russia authorities imitate enforcement of European Court's judgements on Chechnya cases

  The trend of recent years - hampering by the state of enforcement of the decisions of the European Court in the territory of the Russian Federation - may result in suspension of the Council of Europe membership.

January 16, 2007 22:07

• Militiamen who harried an Adygea resident to death convicted in the Krasnodar Territory

  The Krasnodar Territory Court has passed a verdict on the criminal case in relation to four district militia officers and one their civil acquaintance, accused of murdering an Adygea resident.

January 16, 2007 22:06

• Officers accused of killing peaceful Chechnya residents refuse to plead guilty

  Officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, refuse to admit their guilt.