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October 12, 2006 21:08

• VIIth part of expert Saveliev's report on Beslan published

  Yury Saveliev, author of the "Beslan: hostages' truth" report made public late in August, has prepared a new, seventh part of it.

October 12, 2006 21:05

• USA prepared to investigate murder of Politkovskaya

  The US State Department does not rule out the possibility of the Russian party inviting American experts for the investigation of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, stated Sean McCormack, official US State Department representative on October 11.

October 12, 2006 19:32

• Turkish writer who recognizes genocide of Armenians gets Nobel prize

  Orkhan Pamuk, a Turkish writer, has become a 2006 Nobel prize winner in the area of literature.

October 12, 2006 19:27

• Preliminary hearing on the "Ulman's case" put off again

  The North Caucasus military district has put off the preliminary hearing of the fourth trial on the case of the special task force of federal troops under the command of captain Eduard Ulman accused of killing six Chechen civilians.

October 11, 2006 23:19

• Lidia Yusupova, human rights activist from Chechnya, may be awarded Nobel Peace Prize

  Lawyer Lidia Yusupova, employee of the "Memorial" Human Rights Centre's representative office in Grozny, Chechnya capital, who is specializing on violation of human rights in Chechnya, may become the third laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize from Russia during the whole history of this prestigious award.

October 11, 2006 23:12

• A powerful explosion thundered close to the Chechen Culture Ministry

  A powerful explosion thundered in the Leninskiy District of Grozny in the cross of the Bogdana Khmelnitskogo and Krasnoznamennaya Streets.

October 11, 2006 20:53

• Mother of Elina Ersenoeva, the last Basaev's wife, kidnapped in Chechnya

  On October 6, in the village of Starye Atagi of the Grozny Rural District of the Chechen Republic, the members of unknown power units kidnapped mother of earlier disappeared Elina Ersenoeva, a string correspondent of the "Chechenskoye Obschestvo" newspaper and the last wife of Shamil Basaev.

October 11, 2006 20:48

• Victims under Ulman's case accuse the convicts' advocates of protracting the process

  Today, the North-Caucasian Military Tribunal convoked the parties of Ulman's case to take part in the preliminary hearing, however, the court session failed.

October 11, 2006 20:45

• Kadyrov: I had no reasons to kill Politkovskaya

  Ramzan Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, told that he had no motives to persecute journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

October 11, 2006 00:53

• Authorities of Georgia detained three ministers of South Ossetia

  Without explaining the reasons, the authorities of Georgia detained in the village of Ergneti the members of the South Ossetia government: Merab Chigoev, minister of justice, Jemal Jigkaev, minister of public health, and Alla Jioeva, minister of education.

October 10, 2006 23:47

• Georgia casts official xenophobia accusations on Russia

  The parliament of Georgia has unanimously adopted a statement officially condemning the authorities of Russia for escalating xenophobia in relation to ethnic Georgians.

October 10, 2006 21:28

• South Ossetia accuses Georgian policemen of casual arms handling

  "An assertion published in Georgian media that two Georgian policemen were wounded at the blockpost in the village of Kekhvi as a result of fire launched by the Ossetian party has nothing to do with reality," Ms. Zema Kulumbegova, press service head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

October 10, 2006 21:24

• Prosecutor's office wants to liquidate the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society

  On October 9, the prosecutor's office of the Nizhni Novgorod Region served a copy of statement of claim on liquidation to Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, executive director of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society".

October 10, 2006 21:21

• Rasul Kudaev's complaint on tortures returned to prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria capital

  The Nalchik City Court has considered a complaint lodges by Rasul Kudaev on the ruling of the Nalchik prosecutor's office to abandon opening a criminal case on application of physical force to him by the members of law enforcement bodies and retuned it back to the Nalchik prosecutor's office for additional investigation.

October 10, 2006 01:36

• Opposition meeting swept in Georgia

  Today, in Akhalkalaki, south of Georgia, an unknown person delivered fire on a protest action held by the oppositional party "Industry Will Save Georgia."

October 10, 2006 01:33

• Politkovskaya's last interview was about Ramzan Kadyrov

  The correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was the last journalist to take interview from Anna Politkovskaya.

October 09, 2006 22:23

• Georgia bans landing of cargo Il-76 with deportees from Russia

  Today afternoon, two Russian Emergency Ministry's ("MChS") airplanes are going to arrive in Tbilisi with the aim to carry out to Moscow about 370 Russian citizens, "who were staying in Georgia on personal matters or as tourists and failed to leave for their homeland due to the stop of transport communications between the two countries."

October 09, 2006 22:20

• Kremlin is behind Politkovskaya's murder, politicians state

  In the opinion of a number of Russian politicians, the Kremlin servants are behind the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a "Novaya Gazeta" observer.

October 09, 2006 22:16

• In Chechnya, Anna Politkovskaya's murder is called an act of political terrorism

  Chechnya citizens are shocked and indignant with the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known Russian journalist, whom many of them considered to be "their close person," the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reports.

October 08, 2006 15:33

• Amnesty International condemns the murder of human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya

  Amnesty International is shocked, saddened and deeply angered by the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian human rights defender and journalist.