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January 05, 2006 15:36

• Another Beslan attack partaker may be alive

  There is information that it is Omar Sheikhulayev whom Beslan victims saw among the terrorists who captured the school in September 2004.

January 05, 2006 15:34

• Police abuse may be serving as cover

  Law enforcement agencies in Achkhoi-Martan, Chechnya, refuse to accept statements from relatives of abducted people.

January 05, 2006 14:51

• Disappearing in Chechnya

  Two girls go missing in the republic's Gudermes district.

January 05, 2006 14:49

• Several killed in Chechnya

  Several federal servicemen are killed and wounded in shootings and explosions in Chechnya's districts.

January 05, 2006 14:47

• Two killed in Dagestan

  Two riot police officers are killed in a skirmish with rebels in Dagestan, and several more are wounded.

December 30, 2005 13:13

• 2005 summarised for Armenia

  Human rights defender Mikael Danielian enumerates some human rights violations in Armenia in 2005.

December 30, 2005 13:06

• Abductions in Chechnya

  One of those abducted is a close relative of Mr Malik Saidullayev, a well-known Chechen businessman, according to some reports.

December 30, 2005 12:59

• Police disperse public meeting in Kabardino-Balkaria

  "All this is happening because Kabardino-Balkaria is not governed by politics, but by law enforcement and security agencies," says lawyer Larissa Dorogova.

December 29, 2005 18:26

• Students go on hunger-strike

  Students sent down from Azerbaijani higher education institutions for political motives also intend to conduct public meetings and pickets.

December 29, 2005 18:19

• Beslan commission's report cribbed

  Materials from the Prosecutor General's Office and the report of the head of the federal commission for Beslan coincide textually.

December 28, 2005 14:32

• Federal commission delivers report on Beslan

  Meanwhile, Beslan Mothers again point out that the report, provisional as it is, gives no names of those responsible for the understatement of hostage numbers in Beslan.

December 27, 2005 23:16

• Passions run high at Beslan trial

  Victims demand that the court should provide guarantees that North Ossetia's ex-president Alexander Dzasokhov will arrive at the trial.

December 27, 2005 16:30

• Public meetings may be banned on the sly

  The government of Kabardino-Balkaria is considering a ban on public meetings as killed rebels relatives plan a no time limit rally in Nalchik.

December 26, 2005 17:29

• Directive makes people homeless

  A protest action with the slogan <em>USSR Passports Cancelled, People Forgotten!</em> is conducted in the Krasnodar territory.

December 26, 2005 16:41

• Beslan Voice leader resentful of examination results

  "It is news to me," Ms Ella Kesayeva says and she also doubts if any tests have been under way that could prove that statement.

December 23, 2005 18:54

• Public Chamber criticises amendments to NGO legislation

  Igor Yakovenko, Secretary General of the Journalists Union of Russia, believes that the new law on NGO marks transition to totalitarianism in Russia.

December 23, 2005 18:51

• NGO leaders hope for president

  "This law fails to achieve those objectives which the president of the Russian Federation would like to achieve," thinks human rights defender Mr Alexander Auzan.

December 22, 2005 16:19

• New NGO legislation introduces rule of bureaucracy, says expert

  The Council of the Russian Duma decides to hold the third reading of the bill toughening control over nongovernmental organisations tomorrow.

December 22, 2005 13:48

• Kulayev reported to be outsider

  "I cannot say that Nurpashi was a gang member and commanded somebody," says Ms Zarema Muzhakhoyev convicted of an attempt at a terrorist act in Moscow.

December 21, 2005 17:47

• Muslims subject to abuse in Dagestan

  Muslims are increasingly often persecuted for religious considerations in the republic.