News

October 21, 2006 20:10

• A number of Azerbaijani media self-stop in solidarity with "Azadlyg" newspaper

  Today's meeting of editors representing a number of Azerbaijani mass media discussed the issue of the fate of the building where the "Azadlyg" newspaper and a number of other media and NGOs are located.

October 21, 2006 20:00

• Politkovskaya's murder condemned at informal EU summit

  At Vladimir Putin's meeting with the leaders of European Union countries, the parties touched upon the issue of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder, Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland.

October 20, 2006 22:59

• Dagestan Moslems are against introduction of Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture in schools

  Moslems of Dagestan stand against introduction into curriculums of secular schools of the discipline "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" (FOC) and in general against teaching any religion, Muhammad-Rasul-hadji Saaduev, chief imam of the Central Jumah-Mosque of the capital of Dagestan, head of the Board of Imams of Makhachkala.

October 20, 2006 22:58

• Investigation knows why Politkovskaya was killed

  The investigation knows the murder motives of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Buksman, First Deputy General Prosecutor of Russia, declared.

October 20, 2006 22:55

• MHG: 400 NGO branches suspended in Russia

  Some 400 branches of foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have suspended their work in Russia in the context of enforcement of the Law on NGOs, human rights activists declared.

October 20, 2006 22:52

• Chechen MIA: 300 militants have surrendered this year

  About 300 members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) came to surrender to the law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic from the start of this year.

October 20, 2006 22:49

• Civil and military authorities in Chechnya mark increased militants' activity

  During several last weeks, the militants undertook a number of serious sallies and diversion-terrorist actions in the territory of the Chechen Republic.

October 19, 2006 23:50

• Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accuse "Rosregistratsia" of red-tape ("volokita")

  Since today, Moscow branch of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has suspended its operations, since not yet being reregistered under the new Law on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

October 19, 2006 23:37

• In Karelia, another cafe belonging to Caucasian natives set on fire

  In the city of Olonets (Karelia), unknown persons set on fire bar "Ogonyok" (Ginger), belonging to natives of North Caucasus, the regional department of the Ministry for Emergencies ("MChS") informed.

October 19, 2006 23:20

• "Beslan Mothers": part seven of Saveliev's report is completely objective

  The victims agree with all the conclusions of part seven of the alternative report of Yuri Saveliev, a State Duma deputy and member of the parliamentary commission for investigating the reasons and circumstances of the Beslan terror act.

October 19, 2006 22:38

• Human Rights Watch office in Moscow suspends its work

  The Moscow-based office of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch has suspended its activities.

October 19, 2006 22:05

• About 150 Georgian citizens will be expelled from Volga region

  Russian courts of the Pre-Volga Federal District have ruled to deport another group of about 150 Georgian citizens out of the country.

October 18, 2006 23:39

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia accuses Russia of breaching Georgians' rights

  In the context of the death of an illegal migrant from Georgia, the Georgian MFA has accused the Russian authorities of infringing the rights of Georgian citizens.

October 18, 2006 23:36

• Reregistration term for foreign NGOs expires in Russia

  Wednesday, October 18, is the deadline established for the affiliates of foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for presenting their reregistration documents to the Federal Registration Service ("Rosregistratsia").

October 18, 2006 23:34

• "Memorial" demands restoration of postal communication with Georgia in the judicial order

  On October 17, 2006, a complaint was lodged to the Syktyvkar City Court on the decisions of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) "Pochta Rossii" (Russian Postal Service), by which the international postal exchange with Georgia had been suspended.

October 18, 2006 22:25

• Case of Kondopoga fight instigator delivered to the court

  The criminal case of the fight instigator in the "Chaika" restaurant of the Karelia town of Kondopoga at night on the eve of August 30, 2006, where then mass disorders burst out, has been transferred to the court.

October 18, 2006 22:20

• Authorities of Ingushetia try to close NGO "Mashr"

  A notification on holding on October 16 a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Nazran (Ingushetia), which was violently dispersed by militia, was submitted to the city's administration by the "Mashr" Republic's Association of Relatives of Missing Persons on October 12.

October 17, 2006 23:05

• Trial on Kaitov's case is over in Karachayevo-Cherkessia

  Today, the Supreme Court of the Karachayevo-Cherkessian Republic held another regular session on the criminal case of Ali Kaitov et al., accused of murdering seven citizens of the Republic.

October 17, 2006 21:28

• Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA): the attackers on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria have ties with foreign special agencies

  Arkady Edelev, Deputy Minister of the Russian MIA, declared that Anzor Astemirov, one of the organizers of militants' attack on Nalchik last October, was associated with special services of foreign countries.

October 17, 2006 21:26

• Georgia demands decent treatment of deportees

  Tengiz Togonidze, 58, one of Georgian citizens deported from St. Petersburg, died of an asthma attack in the morning of October 17 straight in the Domodedovo Airport.