News

December 04, 2006 22:33

• Residents of Chechen mountain villages are concerned with more frequent air raids and shelling

  Air bombing of high-mountain village of Sharo-Argun in the Shatoiskiy District of the Republic is far from being a single incident if this sort in Chechnya during recent time, the residents of a number of mountainous villages of the Republic assert.

December 02, 2006 22:15

• Kondopoga residents paid tribute to citizens murdered three months ago during disorders

  Today, residents of Kondopoga have paid the tribute to the memory of the citizens who were killed three months ago - late in August this year.

December 02, 2006 22:11

• Anti-Criminal Movement published names of policemen rewarded for beating peaceful demonstrators in Armenia

  "We have at our disposal multiple documents on interference of law enforcement bodies and the Security Service of Armenia into the course of political processes," Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "New Times" Party, stated in the evening on December 1.

December 02, 2006 22:09

• November battles and diversions in North Caucasus brought at least 38 casualties

  From November 23 to 29, at least ten persons perished and five more wounded in the course of armed collisions and diversion acts in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

December 02, 2006 22:06

• Italian and British journalists know who poisoned Litvinenko

  Journalists from The News of the World newspaper have managed to find out the name of Litvinenko's poisoner.

December 02, 2006 22:03

• Mario Scaramella has no traces of radiation intoxication

  The British doctors who continue examining Italian Mario Scaramella have reported today that he has no traces of radiation intoxication.

December 01, 2006 23:39

• Azerbaijan: the frequencies of the ANS TV Channel has been put to tender

  The ANS has refused to take part in the tender for their own frequencies to be held in the period December 5 - January 5.

December 01, 2006 23:31

• Preparatory court session on Sakit Zakhidov's case held in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Court of Appeal of Azerbaijan has held a preparatory session on the case of satirical poet Sakit Zakhidov

December 01, 2006 22:17

• Litvinenko's body autopsy finished

  The autopsy of the body of Alexander Litvinenko is over. The examination was held at the London Royal Hospital under special safety precautions.

December 01, 2006 22:14

• Exact number of militants in Chechnya is unknown

  Different figures of the number of militants who are still hiding in the mountain part of Chechnya, made public by military officials and representatives of local authorities, give grounds to suppose that the exact number is still unknown.

December 01, 2006 22:09

• Jury on explosion case of Grozny-Moscow train dissolved

  On Friday, the Moscow Regional Court dissolved the jury in the case on blowing up of the Grozny-Moscow train in 2005.

November 30, 2006 23:49

• In Ingushetia, the court intends to consider legality of dispersing the picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya

  At 4:00 p.m. on December 7, the Nazran District Court of the Republic of Ingushetia will start to consider the application of the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing Persons on recognition to be illegal of the actions of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran, who had banned a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya on October 16 this year, and of the Nazran Interior Department and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, who violently dispersed the action.

November 30, 2006 23:45

• Human rights activists: Budanov takes his third try to get a pre-time release

  On November 28, the human rights organization "Chechen Committee of National Rescue" distributed information that colonel Yuri Budanov had lodged a petition to the Ulyanovsk Regional Court on his pre-term release from the strict custody colony, where he is serving his sentence for the murder of Chechen young woman Elza Kungaeva.

November 30, 2006 23:34

• Eighty-nine refugees have returned from Georgia to Chechnya

  A total of 89 Chechen refugees who fled to the Akhmetovskiy District of Georgia at the very start of 1999 military actions have come back home from there.

November 30, 2006 23:31

• 13,000 Finns voiced against trampling human rights in Chechnya

  A broad-scale action of direct expression of public will under the motto "Now its Finland's turn to affect!" was dated to the Russia-EU Summit held in Helsinki, capital of Finland, currently the chair country in the EU.

November 30, 2006 23:17

• Trial on explosion of Grozny-Moscow train is scandalous

  A scandal has burst out at the Moscow Regional Court, where the case on explosion of the Grozny-Moscow train is considered.

November 29, 2006 23:32

• Kosachov: accusing Russia of poisoning Litvinenko is proofless

  Konstantin Kosachov, chairman of the Committee of State Duma on Foreign Affairs, believes that a certain "presumption of guilt" has formed in the West in relation to Russia.

November 29, 2006 23:26

• Ingushetia: refusal to initiate a case against those guilty of beating a lady-picketer in Politkivskaya's memory has been cancelled

  Nurdin Doklaev, deputy public prosecutor of the city of Nazran, Republic of Ingushetia, has made a decision to cancel the ruling of Hussein Sakalov, investigator of the City prosecutor's office, on refusal to initiate a criminal case on application about beating Ms. Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," during dispersal on October 16 this year of a picket in memory Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran.

November 29, 2006 23:14

• International organizations call Azerbaijani authorities to open ANS TV channel

  Ilkham Aliev, president of Azerbaijan, gave his comments on the situation around mass media.

November 29, 2006 22:18

• The prosecutor's office has not enforced any decisions on Baisarov's case

  The Moscow prosecutor's office has refuted the information that it has recognized lawful the actions of Chechen militiamen in the course of operation aimed to detain Movladi Baisarov, former commander of the "Gorets" (Mountaineer) squadron; in the course of the operation on November 18 he was shot dead, the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office reported.